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Welcome Home: A Visual Novel That Explores The Parent’S Response To Their Child’S Challenge Due To The Covid-19 Pandemic, Reneé Therese C. Soliveres May 2022

Welcome Home: A Visual Novel That Explores The Parent’S Response To Their Child’S Challenge Due To The Covid-19 Pandemic, Reneé Therese C. Soliveres

DLSU Senior High School Research Congress

The COVID-19 Pandemic officially started in March 2020 when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a lockdown globally. As COVID-19 cases started to rise, so did mental health cases. WHO stated that 60% of adolescents and children struggled with their mental health, resulting in new challenges they encountered. Welcome Home is an interactive visual novel set in a Filipino context that presents the adolescents’ new challenges and their behavior during the pandemic. It is a game where the player chooses the parents’ responses to their children’s feelings by either helping or rejecting them. The ending will be determined based on …