In this episode, game designer and professor James Coltrain joins host Eduard Gafton to talk about his game, Blackhaven, and how it explores racism, slavery and America’s past.  

𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬  

○  00:00:00 - Start  

○ 00:02:30 - How did Blackhaven start?  

○ 00:23:10 - How does a 3D environment change how we interact with history?  

○ 00:43:41 - Which games would James recommend?  

𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞  

○  Historiated Games’ website: https://www.historiated.com/ 

○  Historiated Games’ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9ifpyJUe9FitIPx6V-qhA/videos 

○  Blackhaven on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1668610/Blackhaven/ 

○  Digital Media and Design at the University of Connecticut: https://dmd.uconn.edu/ 

○  Department of Media Communications at the Xavier University of Louisiana: https://www.xula.edu/department/department-of-mass-communications 

○  Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamesColtrain 

○  Donate to The Whitney Plantation: https://www.whitneyplantation.org/ 

○  Gone Home: https://store.steampowered.com/app/232430/Gone_Home/ 

○  The Stanley Parable: https://store.steampowered.com/app/221910/The_Stanley_Parable/ 

○ Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture: https://store.steampowered.com/app/417880/Everybodys_Gone_to_the_Rapture/ 

○ Moss: https://store.steampowered.com/app/846470/Moss/ 

○ Firewatch: https://store.steampowered.com/app/383870/Firewatch/ 

○ Oxenfree: https://store.steampowered.com/app/388880/Oxenfree/ 

○ What Remains of Edith Finch: https://store.steampowered.com/app/501300/What_Remains_of_Edith_Finch/ 

○ Sayonara Wild Hearts: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1122720/Sayonara_Wild_Hearts/ 

○ Super Mario 3D World: Bowser’s Fury: https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/Super-Mario-3D-World-Bowser-s-Fury-1832228.html 

○ The Forgotten City: https://store.steampowered.com/app/874260/The_Forgotten_City/ 

○ Minit: https://store.steampowered.com/app/609490/Minit/ 

○ Deathloop: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1252330/DEATHLOOP/ 

○ Returnal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Returnal_(video_game) 

○ Lemnis Gate: https://www.lemnisgategame.com/ 

○ Blood, Sweat and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34376766-blood-sweat-and-pixels 

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐨 

Podcasts are also now available on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPoemU_CP8tkXVpyU240LpbiXlTnBS2Zf 

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 

Join us on the 25th September at the Royal Armouries in Leeds to mark the release of our brand-new wargame: Lion Rampant: A Viking in The Sun! For more information and tickets: https://royalarmouries.org/event/the-vikings-are-coming/

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐔𝐬  

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𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫  Intro/Outro Music:  Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventureLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensee