{"id":2024,"date":"2021-09-08T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T10:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/digitalholocaustmemory\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2024-07-19T11:34:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:34:43","slug":"playing-the-holocaust-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/digitalholocaustmemory\/2021\/09\/08\/playing-the-holocaust-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Holocaust – Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In late 2020, we hosted an academic discussion about the Holocaust and computer games called Playing the Holocaust – Part I<\/a>. <\/strong>As a follow-up to that event, in early 2021, we brought together a variety of speakers working on the creation of such projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our first speaker was J\u00f6rg Friedrich<\/strong> a game designer from Berlin and co-founder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of Paintbucket Games, an independent game studio that made the historical resistance sim Through the Darkest of Times. <\/em>Before he founded his own studio, J\u00f6rg worked for 15 years in creatively influential roles on big production games like Spec Ops:The Line, Dead Island <\/em>or Drakensang. <\/em>J\u00f6rg is also a freelance lecturer of game and narrative design at a number of schools and universities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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