Introduction and Motivations Elm City Stories is an interactive video game developed by researchers at the play2PREVENT lab. It attempts to reduce risk of substance use and educate players (11-14 year olds) on sexual health. Players create an avatar and play through various mini-games that seek to model real-life situations and involve issues such as…

*This project was done with Dylan, Guy, and Taylor for UCLA Datafest 2022. We use general statistical methods and neural networks to investigate the trends between player engagement in the Elm City Stories game and their general improvement on a drug and sexual health questionnaire. We conclude that players who spend more time in the…