Featured Games: Games with Culture presents the 8 Games with Culture created during the EPIC-WE project’s cultural game jams and presented in the D5.2 Demonstrator: EPIC-WE Games Collection.
At the heart of these games is a simple but transformative idea: Game‑making is culture‑making. In EPIC-WE, games are not only about entertainment. They are ways of interpreting cultural heritage, exploring societal questions, and imagining future worlds.
The Games with Culture reflect the outcomes of EPIC-WE’s game-making as culture-making approach using the developed Cultural Game Jam Kits. Together, they showcase how games can be an imaginative and powerful vehicle for cultural engagement and expression - shaped by cultural heritage, values, and experiences of young people to create imaginative Cultural Game Prototypes - and further developed into Games with Culture in collaboration with professional game companies.
These partnerships create a unique space – cross-sector Cultural Hubs – where experimentation is encouraged, professional expertise is shared, and young voices are taken seriously as cultural contributors. For the game industry, Cultural Game Jams and Games with Culture point to cultural and empowered youth collaborations that help create innovative game narratives, experiences, and interactions. For cultural heritage, they offer new ways of activating and engaging cultural heritage collections, places, and narratives. And for young participants, they open new pathways into empowered participation and future professional roles in games and culture. If you want to learn more you can hear from the expert and partners themselves in our Expert Video Interviews.
In this sense, the featured Games with Culture are both an invitation and an example - showing new ways of making games, engaging with culture, and empowering the next generation of game-making and culture-making professionals.
