Enabling Restorative Hawaiian Futurism via a Tabletop Role-Playing Game and Digital Ha‘i Mo‘olelo
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Kaona is a cooperative tabletop RPG plus digital storyteller co-designed with Theorycraftist Games, the Pacific Alliance Against COVID team at Waiʻanae Community Comprehensive Health Center, and Georgia Tech’s Ka Moamoa Lab, built around the Lōkahi Wheel and mapped to six moku that players must heal. It supports 1–4 players solving quests drawn from Hawaiian moʻolelo, uses iterative community playtesting, and reports initial evidence of increased cultural connection, collaborative problem‑solving, and youth wellbeing.
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