Preserving culture through the power of games
summary
Argues that games can preserve and transmit indigenous culture by embedding oral stories, contextual videos and community-authored content rather than rephrasing topics. Cites Never Alone’s collectible videos that give Inupiat history, a Paraguayan book Genesis De La Raza Guarani (Nande Ipi Cuera) translated by Narciso Colman, a grassroots group Pytyvo Gaming that organizes developers, and an ongoing collaboration Mulaka with Raramuri elders. Gives concrete preservation tactics: community consent, revenue for communities, digitizing fragile texts, and crowd funding to actually build playable cultural works.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:15Indigenous storytelling traditions
- 8:19Games as storytelling tools
- 11:58Cultural representation consent
- 13:46Empowering marginalized cultures
- 15:10Pytyvo Gaming efforts
- 16:58Q&A: Books vs games
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