Adam Davis

It’s Dangerous to Go Alone. Take This.

Posted on April 6, 2017 Written by Adam Davis

The Take This Project is an organization that helps raise awareness for mental health in the gaming community and offers "AFK Rooms" at gaming and geek conventions around the country

The name Take This comes from the 1986 game Legend of Zelda for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. The protagonist Link is given a sword and is told, "It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this." This message is infused in Take This’ entire philosophy of providing support and community to gamers, who may often feel isolated or alone.

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PAX East was a Blast!

Posted on March 21, 2017 Written by Adam Davis

I’m writing this blog post from an airplane, traveling back from Boston. We’re still reeling from an amazing first trip to PAX East. We’ve presented at PAX South and PAX West each twice now, but since PAX East is across the country from our home base in Seattle, it took a few years to get us out here.

We had a blast! Our panel was on Saturday at noon.

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We’re headed back to Emerald City Comicon!

Posted on February 16, 2017 Written by Adam Davis

We spoke at Emerald City Comicon for the first time in 2015, and are so excited to be returning this year for the third time!

Our panel will be on Sunday, March 5th, and, we’ll be continuing with our talk from PAX South 2017 with the title “Please Don’t Punch the GM: More Adventures in Gaming Therapy.”

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Why Tabletop Role-Playing Games? Part 1: Perspective-Taking

Posted on May 4, 2016 Written by Adam Davis

If you haven’t done so yet, check out the last post where I unpacked the term "tabletop role-playing games" for a background.

Now you know what tabletop role-playing games are. Why, you may ask, do we use them to help our clients build social skills, instead of a more traditional talk-therapy approach?

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