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In the year since I played it, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice appears significantly improved. A steady stream of developer diary videos, the most recent published yesterday, show a game looking much more the blockbuster production British developer Ninja Theory is known for - no small feat for the studio's first self-published, smaller-team game.The new Hellblade developer diary, 'Hearing Voices', shows the process and thinking behind main character Senua's auditory verbal hallucinations - an experience associated with schizophrenia. Mental illness is at the core of what Hellblade is about, remember, and Ninja Theory is going to great lengths to faithfully portray it.
Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades wrote an accompanying blog post about psychosis in Hellblade, talking about the things he's learned of the condition during the game's development.
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