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When we combine Brock Kniles (systematic obsession), Roman Todd (simulated gaslighting), and the portable (intimate, fragmented play), we arrive at a comprehensive model of video game madness. This is not madness as a meter to manage, but madness as the very texture of play. The player is never safe because the rules may be perfect (Kniles) or perfectly untrustworthy (Todd), and the device is always vulnerable to the outside world (portable). This is not madness as a meter to
This paper examines how four distinct ludic texts— Portable Brock , Kniles’ Folly , Roman Todd , and The Madness Engine (a “Roman Todd” total conversion mod)—deploy “madness” not merely as a narrative theme but as a core mechanical system. Drawing on Calleja’s (2011) concept of “incorporation” and Farca’s (2018) “empathic failure,” we argue that these games operationalize cognitive breakdown through fluctuating player agency, unreliable interfaces, and diegetic feedback loops. Our analysis reveals four primary madness mechanics: perception distortion, action interpolation, memory corruption, and social mimicry collapse. We conclude that portable madness systems (exemplified by Portable Brock ) represent a new design paradigm for representing severe psychiatric distress without romanticization. Roman Todd (simulated gaslighting)