The gaming world is not just about entertainment; it’s a vast realm where culture, heritage, and innovation converge. Recognizing this nexus, the Logaculture project recently participated in a meeting with its sister projects organized by the European Commission. GREAT (Games Realizing Transformation) and EPIC-WE (Empowered Participation through Creating Cultural Worlds and Environments), alongside LoGaCulture, were…
Three researchers associated with LoGaCulture have recently been up to some interesting tasks at in the UK and the Island of Madeira. As LoGaCulture gains steam, and some of the preparatory work required to start designing those promising locative games wraps up, Anna Bertmark and Mathilde Gouin have been gathering numerous voices in co-producing these…
The intersection of narrative, hypertext, and mixed reality is an exciting frontier in the world of digital storytelling and interactive experiences. During the ACM Hypertext 2023 conference this year, two esteemed consortium members, Dr. Charlie Hargood from Bournemouth University and Prof. David Millard from the University of Southampton, organised a workshop that delved into this…
The Horizon Europe-funded research project LoGaCulture (Locative Games for Cultural Heritage) is hosting the kick-off meeting at the Natural History Museum of Funchal in Madeira, Portugal, this April. This project will explore how a new generation of innovative geolocation-based games might benefit European society through its cultural heritage sites. Valentina Nisi, Associate Professor and funding researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute and Instituto Superior Técnico,…