Amaan Ayaz Khan

Artist Statement

Social anxiety has seen an unprecedented increase since the COVID-19 pandemic. However, board games have also grown in popularity since then. Serendipitously, there is a potential linkage between board games and social anxiety alleviation.

Erasmus uses research from social anxiety, game design and design to carefully employ 10 guiding principles for social wellness in applied games. It is a 2 to 6 player game that takes between an hour and an hour-and-a-half to complete.

There are 78 social wellness activity cards that can be performed in this game aims to create an enjoyable, yet social wellness boosting experience for users.

Bio

Amaan Ayaz Khan is a digital and product designer as well as a design researcher.

Amaan has worked in game, graphic and product design, social media and advertising, and post-production for Bollywood. Amaan pursued an MFA degree at Syracuse University to study how to immerse design in research and analysis.