Playing the Holocaust – Part II
In late 2020, we hosted an academic discussion about the Holocaust and computer games called Playing the Holocaust - Part I. As a follow-up to that event, in early 2021, we brought together a variety of speakers working on the creation of such projects. Below you can watch the speaker's presentations from this event and find out more about how games designers, their collaborators, and museums have approached making games about this sensitive history. Our first speaker was Jörg Friedrich a game designer from Berlin and co-founder of Paintbucket Games, an independent game studio that made the historical resistance sim Through the Darkest of Times. Before he founded his own studio, Jörg worked for 15 years in creatively influential roles on big production games like Spec Ops:The Line, Dead Island or Drakensang. Jörg is also a freelance lecturer of game and narrative design at a number of schools and universities. https://youtu.be/zGUWSt7CYzk Next up, Noemie Lopian and games designer Dan Hett spoke about their work translating her father's experiences into a computer game. Dr Noemie Lopian is the daughter of Holocaust survivors Dr Ernst Israel Bornstein and Renee Bornstein. In the last few years, she has dedicated her time [...]