2015 D.I.C.E. Summit - Never Alone's Gloria O’Neill & Alan Gershenfeld
9Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.'s Gloria O'Neill & E-Line Media's Alan Gershenfeld discusses "Games Thousands of Years in the Making" at #DICE2015!
What makes cultures and stories survive thousands of years? How will they survive for thousands more? How does one generation help guide another generation in a complex, rapidly changing world? In a digitally interconnected world how do we embrace similarities and celebrate differences across cultures? What does this have to do with commercial video games?
'Never Alone' (Kisima Ingitchuna) is an atmospheric puzzle- platform game that leverages traditional Alaska Native stories along with the culture of the Inupiat community. The game has been produced through an inclusive development between Cook Inlet Tribal Council, a pioneering Alaska Native social service organization and E-Line Media. The team features 40 Alaska Native elders, artists and storytellers working closely with veteran game developers committed to the vision of sharing, celebrating and extending world cultures through commercial games.
'Never Alone' was launched in November, 2014 for X-Box One, PS4 and PC. It has been featured, discussed and debated in mass-market media such as the New Yorker, Wired, USAToday, LA Times, NPR, Guardian and Sunday Mirror as well as hundreds of gaming sites throughout the world. This talk will be a case study on the game, the launch as well as vision for a broader ‘World Games’ movement.
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