Culture Untapped: inspirational content & fresh ideas for your games
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Games are often brain- and resource-intensive projects. Why not save precious time and exploit untapped, powerful sources of inspiration and material? Discover Europeana, a digital platform for culture giving access to over 43 million records of great thematic and media variety, coming from 3300 heritage organizations and available in 31 languages. This presentation shows how this huge database can help game creation process with fresh ideas and “building blocks” of diverse and high-quality digital content. Game developers will look at inspiring content picks, learn more about technical tools and services to access and use the digital material and see some real-life examples of creative re-use of cultural content in educational and tourism games.
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- 1. Milena Popova, Europeana || 16 June 2015, ParisMilena Popova, Europeana || 16 June 2015, Paris Culture Untapped: inspirational content & fresh ideas for your games Culture Untapped: inspirational content & fresh ideas for your games
- 2. “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. ” Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
- 3. europeana
- 6. 25 m 17 m 700 K 560 K 21 K Books, newspapers, journals, letters, diaries, archival papers || Paintings, maps, drawings, photographs || Music, spoken word, radio broadcasts || Film, newsreels, television || Curated exhibitions
- 9. Europeana 1914 – 1918 – untold WW1 stories
- 12. Technology
- 13. Openly licensed, rich datasets Openly licensed, rich datasets Access to co-creation spaces Access to co-creation spaces API & tools: free key, documentation, console API & tools: free key, documentation, console SupportSupport
- 14. Tasters
- 15. Adventure Game prototype by Exozet Games (Europeana Creative)
- 16. by Semantika (CC BY-ND Europeana Creative)
- 18. Europeana Beacon – Smart Proximity Tourism App
- 21. Credits Cover slide: Béllérophon, Pégase et la Chimère || National Library of France || || 1814, Public Domain Thracian civilization: all images by Institute of Balkan Studies and Thracology, Bulgaria || CC-BY Maps: Coasts of Flanders, Normandy and England, English coast between the Isle of Wight and Dover, Coast of Sweden between Kalmar and Stockholm - all Rijksmuseum ||1580, Public Domain; Het vijfde Deel Deo Grooten Atlas verbatende De Water-Weereld', Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico || 1652, Public Domain WW1: various images on europeana1914-1918.eu || CC-BY Fashion: Wedding dress by the famous Swedish fashion designer Augusta Lundin || 1905; Courtesy of The Royal Armoury, Sweden; Broche strikvormig, van geëmailleerd goud || Rijksmuseum || c. 1650 - c. 1675, Public Domain; Hanger in de vorm van een tak blauwe regen || Rijksmuseum || 1908-1910, Public Domain Stockholms mode-journal: Tidskrift för den eleganta werlden || Stiftelsen Nordiska museet ||1846, Public Domain Adventure Game prototype by Exozet Games (CC BY-ND Europeana Creative) Memory game by Semantika (CC BY-ND Europeana Creative)
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- Best ideas and projects come Tapping into unusual resources Making unexpected connections I believe the same principle applies to games and hope that all I will show you today – what we have and do – can help in your game projects.
- Over 2,000 historical fashion drawings and prints, as well as sewing and embroidery patterns.
- This game is developed by Exozet Games in collaboration with the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and the National Museum in Prague. It uses a combination of content from the natural history and the history domain. Aimed at: school children 12+, families,. The game tells a story about the secret legacy of Alexander von Humboldt including a mystery which needs to be unravelled by his descendant Sara. During her adventure, Sara needs to solve several puzzles and tasks to get all of the hints about where to find the pieces of a secret map and to discover the great secret that the completed map will reveal. It takes place at the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) and various other locations in Berlin, the National Museum in Prague and a secret island close to the Antarctic.
- Digital memory game for school children. This game is developed by Semantika in collaboration with the National Museum in Prague. It combines the classic memory game of finding pairs with a quiz to test your knowledge in natural history education. https://vimeo.com/87876117
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpI31W7x7oo