Archaeological Storytelling in Games

Livingstone, Daniel; Louchart, Sandy Jean-Jacques; Jeffrey, Stuart

Archaeological Storytelling in Games

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Livingstone, Daniel, Louchart, Sandy Jean-Jacques and Jeffrey, Stuart (2016) Archaeological Storytelling in Games. In: Playing with History 2016 DiGRA/FDG Workshop on Playing with history: Games, antiquity and history, August 1st 2016, Dundee.
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Creators/Authors:

Livingstone, Daniel, Louchart, Sandy Jean-Jacques and Jeffrey, Stuart

Abstract:

Digital games have been increasingly recognized in recent years for their existing and potential contributions as a medium for promoting engagement with history and cultural heritage. Rather than focus on how games can help the public engage with a known (to scholars) past, here we consider instead how the core problems and processes of archeology themselves might be applied as a story-telling technique in games. We consider what this might look like in games and contrast with archeogaming, existing environmental storytelling approaches and examples. Finally, we consider how these techniques could also be applied to developing games to support students learning about archaeology and material culture.

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http://digra-fdg2016.org/workshop-playing-with-history-games-antiquity-and-history/

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Games, Storytelling, Archaeology, Archaeogaming, Environmental Storytelling

School/Academic Area:

School of Innovation and Technology

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1 August 2016

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1 June 2016