The game guide · Empathy
How to play Leave a Little Space
Watch carefully before deciding when your tap belongs. Watch the moving pulse and tap when it reaches the marked target zone. This visual timing round can be played without sound and invites a small, deliberate moment.
Your starting point
Watch carefully before deciding when your tap belongs.
The rules
Watch the pulse move and tap when it reaches the marked target zone. For still play, choose calm mode and select the percentage where the marker appears.
A helpful approach
Watch a little of the movement before tapping. Use the visible target zone as your cue; calm mode offers still markers, and sound is not required. Notice the difference between the information you have been given and the story you might be assuming around it.
After the game
What did you notice during the wait before choosing the moment to tap? What respectful question could help you understand someone’s experience without deciding their feelings or needs for them?
There is no need to turn a small moment into a perfect performance. Play again if you want to explore it, or leave it here and take the thought into your day.
The feeling behind it
Listen before deciding what someone must feel. Make room for a perspective that is different from your own.
A women’s storytelling tradition inspires attention to perspective. These games are original and do not reproduce Hikaye tales.
Read our empathy story, inspired by Palestinian Hikaye in Palestine. The UNESCO: The Palestinian Hikaye provides the source context.
Share the invitation
I am here to listen, without writing your story for you. Try Leave a Little Space with me, if you fancy a little empathy today.
If someone comes to mind, send them a game they might enjoy. Add your own words, let them choose whether to play, and keep private details out of a public link.