Raising awareness of Alzheimer’s with a videogame

UNSETTLING: A scene from the game about Alzheimer's which sends a message.

A student's project to create a videogame that allows players a first-person look at what it's like to live with Alzheimer's was unveiled last week. 

A candidate for a degree in Game Design & Production Management at Abertay University in the UK, Alexander Tarvet wanted to give the public a sense of the debilitating disease, in which patients suffer from memory loss and cognitive decline.