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Today we’re sharing a sneak peek at the Trace Explorer, a part of the Tracing the Potter’s Wheel exhibition at the @allardpierson! For this mini game, we’re inviting you to step into the shoes of the archaeologist. Can you identify what traces are on each of the pots? Image details: 1 - The main menu of the game. Here you’ll find yourself in an archaeological lab, surrounded by sherd-filled crates. Your task is to study each of the pots on the table and record the traces you see on them. It seems pretty intimidating, but in the game you’ll find the tools you need to succeed. 2 - The Glossary, where the traces are explained in detail. You can see detail images there of what traces look like, highlighted to make identification easier. The description covers the shape of the trace as well as what might have caused it. 3 – Inspecting a pot. After selecting a pot from the table, you can study it by rotating it and switching between normal light and UV light to give some helpful hints! When you see traces, select them from the console to compile your report. This will be reviewed and scored by your digital supervisor! This mini game, along with the others, will be released on 1 October at the Allard Pierson’s ArcheoHotSpot and online. If you’re in Amsterdam in October, come have a look! If you’re not, we’ll be sharing links so you can play along in the digital exhibition. #immersiveheritage #playthepast #goingdigital #allardpierson #temporaryexhibition #interactivedisplay #museumathome #gamedev #minigame #devlog #heritageexplained #archaeologyexplained #experimentalarchaeology #madewithgodot #godot #b3d #wip (at Amsterdam, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiNi1Y6qUJ5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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For our first #wipwednesday we’re sharing something exciting coming in October! We’re partnering with the Tracing the Potter’s Wheel Project for their hybrid exhibition at the @allardpierson in Amsterdam called De Geheimen van het Pottersbakkerswiel/Tracing the Potter’s Wheel. We’re developing a series of mini games to complement the thematic displays within the exhibition space, so that visitors can play them on dedicated tablets. These same mini games will also be available for anyone to play using their web browser. Our focus here is keeping each mini game lightweight in terms of memory usage, designing game art and animations which clearly illustrate concepts, and providing multiple language support (Dutch and English for now, with Italian coming soon!). We are using some fantastic open source tools that have made work as a small, early stage studio much more accessible, most notably @godotengine, Inky, and @blender.official. Stay tuned for more on this in the coming weeks! #immersiveheritage #wip #playthepast #goingdigital #digitalexhibition #digitalmuseum #museumfun #museumathome #minigame #gamedev #devlog #madewithgodot #blender #blenderrender #heritageexplained #archaeologyexplained https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7wk8RMpM7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Where did Immersive Heritage come from? The inspiration for our work began in 2019 when our founder, an archaeologist, was collaborating on a temporary museum exhibition based on work that her research unit had completed. The topic of the exhibit appealed to her colleagues from near and far, but it was open for a very short time – just two weeks! Since the research itself was publicly funded, she and her colleagues wanted to ensure that their work could be readily available, but archiving an interactive exhibition (which you can see in this walkthrough video) posed a tricky problem. Looking for ways to digitally curate museum displays, a spark of interest was ignited. How can an interactive learning space be curated digitally? First the interest became a hobby, where she started thinking about how players engage with different types of games, from simple puzzles up through complex open world role playing games. Then the hobby became a passion, as she started taking on new skills in game development, museum curation, and different programming languages. Now, the passion has become a new way of approaching heritage communication, where a visitor to a museum might play a simple game on their mobile to learn more about an object, or a person might explore the evolution of a town’s historic district from their PC, or a teacher might turn their classroom into a temporary exhibition space with tablets and augmented reality. #immersiveheritage #whereitallbegan #playthepast #goingdigital #temporaryexhibition #interactivedisplay #museumathome #gamedev #devlog #heritageexplained #archaeologyexplained #experimentalarchaeology #madewithunrealengine (at Amsterdam, Nederland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch5BRViKxO-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=