| TR-50180-10 | Public Programs: America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Center for New American Media, Inc. | Past/Present 1906: An Immersive History Game for the Internet | 9/1/2010 - 4/30/2012 | $300,000.00 | Louis | | Alvarez | | | | Center for New American Media, Inc. | New York | NY | 10018-3005 | USA | 2010 | U.S. History | America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Public Programs | 300000 | 0 | 300000 | 0 | Production of a computer game and an accompanying website about life in a New England mill town in 1906.
The Past/Present 1906 Game is a fully realized immersive 3-D "virtual world" in which a player can "become" a fictional character (called an avatar) who is caught up in the big issues of his or her time as experienced over a span of three "days" in their lives. We have conceived of this project with the twin purposes of increasing public awareness of a key moment in American history as well as helping to enhance popular understanding of the complex nature of historical inquiry. |