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Thank You for Playing
~ 10 minInteractive: Web Experience
By: Andréa Cohen-BoulakiaDominic Desjardins
Production: Dominic Desjardins
The new interactive website Thank You for Playing invites users to discover the dark side of gambling by exploring how games of chance affect players who develop addictive behaviours.
Slot machines and other casino games are designed to manipulate players and their desire to play, eliciting a neurological reward/punishment reaction. When players win, their faith in a good outcome is strengthened; when they lose, they feel like they’ve been punished and try to redeem themselves. Without being aware of it, the player becomes a hostage to these two emotional states—and casinos know full well how to take advantage of this.
Thank You for Playing allows us to follow the personal stories of three players who recount their experiences of addiction and abstinence. Various experts (neurologists, psychologists, and addiction specialists) offer theories to help audiences understand the mechanism and source of the dangerous, drug-free addiction that is compulsive gambling.
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Subject categories
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Counselling and Therapy
- Social Issues > Social Problems
Credits
- researcher
- Andréa Cohen-Boulakia
- director
- Andréa Cohen-Boulakia
- Dominic Desjardins
- interactive designer
- Priam Givord
- producer
- Dominic Desjardins
- original music
- Adam White
- expert
- Daniel Charest
- Alain Dagher
- Damien Bérubé
- Magalie Dufour
- re-enactment actor
- Maxime Robin
- Jean-François Soucy
- Robert Godin
- Freya Ravensbergen
- Geneviève Fontaine
- Valérie Descheneaux
- Éric Charbonneau
- Web developer
- Max Rusan
- Christof Dumke
- assistant designer
- Anzella Gasataya
- content editor
- Catherine Perreault-Lessard
- director of photography
- Katerine Giguère
- Cabot McNenly
- Olivier Cheneval
- Nathalie Lasselin
- sound recordist
- Sylvain Vary
- production manager
- Amélie Lambert-Bouchard
- Sarah Kravetz
- camera assistant
- Julien Marais
- Adam Burrows
- set designer
- Brian Garvey
- makeup artist
- Alexia Parent
- Kimberley Haddad
- research
- Geneviève Turcot
- Doris Lapierre
- Claudette Beaudoin
- Nancy Marcotte
- Edith Brideau
- Robin McKenna
- Saouda Osarowski
- David Turcotte
- off-line editor
- Karen Vanderborght
- online editor
- Karen Vanderborght
- archival research
- Doris Lapierre
- transcription
- L.L. Bilingual Transcription Services
- subtitles
- MELS
- sound editing
- Daniel Toussaint
- mixing
- Daniel Toussaint
- sound design
- Daniel Toussaint
- Adam White
- foley artist
- Lise Wedlock
- advisor for interactive development
- Louis-Richard Tremblay
- Marie-Pier Gauthier
- Martin Viau
- marketing manager
- Tammy Peddle
- administrator
- Geneviève Duguay
- project manager
- Alexandrine Torres de Figueiredo
- production coordinator
- Laura Bergeron
- technical coordinator
- Daniel Claveau
- technical support
- Sergiu Raul Suciu
- legal counsel
- Sophie de Champlain