Digital Game Design Workshop

Imagine the ideas of the Greek Enlightenment and Revolution being transformed into a contemporary video game.

Using as a prototype the historical artifact of Rigas Feraios’s Great Charta, you can create your own digital game. You begin with the fundamentals of game design, the creation of graphics and animation, and continue with the introduction of the proper code.

Through an entertaining workshop, you’ll create a digital came on your computer and, through play, will learn everything about History, but also about the processes by which it is created.

Photo: Stavros Petropoulos

Credits

3D Graphics & Game Developer, Software & Media Administrator, Onassis Stegi
Kostas Diamantis
Ph.D. in the History of Cartography, General State Archives of Greece, Historical Archive of Macedonia & Cartographic Heritage Archives
Maria Pazarli
Science and Technology Historian, Onassis Library Coordinator
Viky Gerontopoulou
Professor of Human Geography & Thematic Cartography, Geography Department, Harokopio University
Thomas Maloutas
PhD candidate, Geography Department, Harokopio University
Christoforos Vradis
Academic Fellow, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business
Stavros Nikiforos Spyrellis

Conditions

Each school group that is selected will take part in one of the four workshops. The workshops consist of four three-hour meetings, to be held at the school itself and either the Onassis Library (Amalias 56) or the Onassis Stegi. On Saturday, 14 March 2020 the Onassis Stegi will host a presentation of the schools’ digital projects.