Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Video Game of Oakland Jazz & Blues Club Scene Paul Grabowicz, Yehuda Kalay, Chung Kim
from abstract: "The UC Berkeley Journalism and Architecture schools are using a video game to tell the story of Oakland's famed 7th Street jazz and blues club scene in the 1940s and 1950s, and its subsequent destruction by urban redevelopment. Learners will access the virtual world over the Internet, adopt avatar figures, walk up and down the street, enter clubs, listen to music of the era, interact with other online visitors and fight to save the clubs."
Game built using the Torque game engine http://www.garagegames.com/pg/product/view.php?id=1
Not sure how much of a game this is. It sounds like quite an accurate reconstration of the place where journalism students are charged with researching the history.
Players pawn possessions in order to play and continue playing - fairly realistic behaviour for the era they're trying to reconstruct. You have to bargain with the pawn shop owner.
Interprofessional exercise: architecture students and journalism students.
Game built using the Torque game engine http://www.garagegames.com/pg/product/view.php?id=1
Not sure how much of a game this is. It sounds like quite an accurate reconstration of the place where journalism students are charged with researching the history.
Players pawn possessions in order to play and continue playing - fairly realistic behaviour for the era they're trying to reconstruct. You have to bargain with the pawn shop owner.
Interprofessional exercise: architecture students and journalism students.
# posted by Andrew Middleton @ 5:12 PM 
