Paying it forward

Paying It Forward 

A spectrum of possibilities

Designed & Created By Barrington Campbell of Kagai Games 

Illustration & Product Design: George A. Cheal of The Bonsai Treehouse

Pay It Forward is a card game where you pass on emotional triggers to the players around you. It mirrors emotional feedback in everyday life, and how the emotions we emit can imprint and affect the people we interact with.

Objective

• To create a game that embodies the sometimes complicated choices we must make in everyday life, in situations like the workplace, when you’re on the spectrum.
• To illustrate a day in the life of someone on the spectrum.
• To illustrate how emotions are changeable – they can be considered positive even if they have negative connotations, and can even be negative when they initially seem positive. 
• To create a tool that illustrates how emotions can combine and morph based on CBT theories.
• To allow others to develop an understanding of how emotions may not always be positive or negative based on first impressions.