MythTrek
Intertwining culture with education through gamified storytelling.
Coupling culture and education has attracted significant attention and pushed towards the replacement of the typical STEM model into STEAM. An effective integration of culture in the everyday educational practice, empowered by game-based storytelling has already shown great potential in transforming the way people are exposed to and grasp knowledge. This work presents an attempt to put culture, education, gaming and storytelling together. Myth Trek, a game developed with state-of-the-art gaming technology, has integrated elements going back in time all the way to the ancient Greek mythology, embedding a time-distorted history onto the present day’s landscape in the center of the city of Athens, the goal being saving Athens from complete annihilation. In a playful action/adventure gaming setting, the game merges mythology, history, architecture and the environment to emerge players in the long history of Athens
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Publications
- C. Kiourt, G. Pavlidis and S. Markantonatou (2017), Intertwining culture with education through gamified storytelling - the case of “Myth Trek”, International Journal of Computational Methods in Heritage Science (IJCMHS), (Under review).