Ordsall Hall in Manchester: A Creative Game for Heritage Studies

Mathias Fuchs; Deborah Leighton

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23834-5_13

Ordsall Hall in Manchester: A Creative Game for Heritage Studies

Mathias Fuchs
, Deborah Leighton

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Abstract

The article describes the development of an educational game at the University of Salford to facilitate learning and discussion about on a Heritage Site in Manchester: Ordsall Hall. The building has been used as a basis for a series of games about gastronomy, religion, fashion and politics of the respective times with the aim of delivering information in a playful manner. The project investigates of how a popular games engine (UT2004) can be used to create Digital Heritage representations and how features that are popular and well known amongst dedicated gamers can be ported or modified to suit an interactive environment that corresponds to scientific standards. Three games have been developed that differ in regard to "ludicity", seriousness, depth of content implemented, and ease of use. This led to terminological considerations in regard to the notion of "Serious Games" and to a critical analysis of the terminologies used and strategic branding of games as "historic", "big fun", puzzle, "serious", "First Person Shooter" or "Creative".

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Serious Games Development and Applications : Second International Conference, SGDA 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 19-20, 2011. Proceedings
Editors	Minhua Ma, Manuel Fradinho Oliveira, João Madeiras Pereira
Number of pages	7
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Publication date	2011
Pages	139-145
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-23833-8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-642-23834-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23834-5_13
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	Serious Games Development and Applications - SGDA 2011 - Lissabon, Portugal Duration: 19.09.2011 → 20.09.2011 Conference number: 2 https://dblp.org/db/conf/sgda/sgda2011

Research areas and keywords

Digital media
Digital culture
digital Cultures
net culture
media culture
media cultures
media studies
new media
social media
media theory
Transdisciplinary studies
Cultural studies
Media and communication studies
Serious Games
Creative Games
Games with a Purpose
Games Studies
Cyberspace

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Fuchs, M., & Leighton, D. (2011). Ordsall Hall in Manchester: A Creative Game for Heritage Studies. In M. Ma, M. F. Oliveira, & J. M. Pereira (Eds.), Serious Games Development and Applications: Second International Conference, SGDA 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 19-20, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 139-145). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6944 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23834-5_13

Fuchs, Mathias ; Leighton, Deborah. / Ordsall Hall in Manchester : A Creative Game for Heritage Studies. Serious Games Development and Applications: Second International Conference, SGDA 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 19-20, 2011. Proceedings. editor / Minhua Ma ; Manuel Fradinho Oliveira ; João Madeiras Pereira. Springer Verlag, 2011. pp. 139-145 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Fuchs, M & Leighton, D 2011, Ordsall Hall in Manchester: A Creative Game for Heritage Studies. in M Ma, MF Oliveira & JM Pereira (eds), Serious Games Development and Applications: Second International Conference, SGDA 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 19-20, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 6944 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 139-145, Serious Games Development and Applications - SGDA 2011, Lissabon, Portugal, 19.09.11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23834-5_13

Ordsall Hall in Manchester: A Creative Game for Heritage Studies. / Fuchs, Mathias; Leighton, Deborah.
Serious Games Development and Applications: Second International Conference, SGDA 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 19-20, 2011. Proceedings. ed. / Minhua Ma; Manuel Fradinho Oliveira; João Madeiras Pereira. Springer Verlag, 2011. p. 139-145 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6944 LNCS).

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Fuchs M, Leighton D. Ordsall Hall in Manchester: A Creative Game for Heritage Studies. In Ma M, Oliveira MF, Pereira JM, editors, Serious Games Development and Applications: Second International Conference, SGDA 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 19-20, 2011. Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2011. p. 139-145. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23834-5_13

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