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The Game Bug That Escaped the Boss Fight
A self-produced 45-second gaming-history explainer for VarysDrogo. Original geometric animation turns the 2005 Corrupted Blood incident into a miniature-map sequence: a pet carries an effect out of a boss encounter, then player choices change the story.
Original script, animation and sound effects; generic AI narration and timed English captions. No game footage, logos, character models or copied research figures are used. This is an illustrated reconstruction, not archival gameplay.
The research angle preserves the distinction between choices in a game and real-world behavior. Sources: Lofgren and Fefferman (2007), https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17714675/ ; Balicer (2007), https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17301707/
Own-channel editorial work, not a paid-client project. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment.
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