ROM Inuit Adventure

I developed this short Twine game to teach Indigenous Inuit survival strategies to kids as well as demonstrate the utility of Twine as a Game making tool for the Royal Ontario Museum's Hack The ROM program, an Indigenous game development initiative for children which I instructed, co-designed, and co-founded with the museum's learning department.

From 2017 - 2022, this game was used as a Twine demonstration as part of our curriculum to teach over 1000+ students how to make Indigenous-inspired video games at nearly 50 schools across Ontario. It, alongside a dramatically voiced presentation I would perform of this game's story for the class, inspired the wide adoption of Twine by students to learn code and make their Indigenous-inspired games every year, as seen on the Hack The ROM Itch Account.

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After performing extensive research using ROM resources and collections on the tools and survival strategies of Indigenous Inuit Peoples, I made this short game in 2017 to demonstrate the capabilities of Twine for its inclusion into the  Hack The ROM program prior to its launch. The result was management being so impressed that they allowed me to write the entire Twine curriculum of the program in addition to other parts of the curriculum I was developing with my colleagues. This game was always a very popular in the classroom and inspired countless children to create their own Twine games.