Hunts Point Haunts TaleBlazer App
'Integrating local history and social issues into geo-locative game design'
A collaboration between HPSBG and THE POINT Community Development Corporation led to THE POINT's summer youth program developing Hunts Point Haunts, a game app that uses geolocation, teaches local history, and "sensitively imagine(s) what the 17th century slaves buried beneath Drake Park in Hunt’s Point might say if they could tell their tales to us today." Mozilla Hive NYC
To play the FREE game, download the TaleBlazer app on your Android or Apple IOS mobile device.
Once downloaded type in the game code: gkkajmh
Now go visit Drake Park and play! You can also play at home.
The game page to copy or remix this game is: http://taleblazer.org/game/gamePage/1597
Once downloaded type in the game code: gkkajmh
Now go visit Drake Park and play! You can also play at home.
The game page to copy or remix this game is: http://taleblazer.org/game/gamePage/1597
"Founded by Global Kids, Inc. and the New York Public Library, NYC Haunts is a STEM-based learning program in which youth designers create a mobile, geo-locative alternate reality game that explores local history and contemporary issues facing a particular NYC neighborhood. The games produced by youth in NYC Haunts programs typically follow the footsteps of a “ghost” — a historical figure or composite modern-day character — who guides a player to discover social, environmental, or economic conditions in the city." Mozilla Hive NYC
Read more about the Drake Park and HPSBG game design process on the website of THE POINT's project partner, Global Kids, 'the premier non-profit educational organization for global learning and youth development."
Read more about the Drake Park and HPSBG game design process on the website of THE POINT's project partner, Global Kids, 'the premier non-profit educational organization for global learning and youth development."