Ice Games: an international creative collaboration with Uummannaq Polar Institute!
Ice Games: a collaboration between Tinderbox Collective and Uummannaq Polar Institute
We’re so excited to be part of one of nine projects set to receive funding from the Scottish Government as part of the third annual round of the Arctic Connections Fund.
We’re collaborating with our friends at the Uummannaq Polar Institute in Uummannaq, Greenland to create some games inspired by ice & icy landscapes. Our collaboration started back in August, and so far we’ve been getting to know each other through skype calls and exchanging creative work.
We’ve shared some of our Tinderbox Games Club games for young people in Uummannaq to play, as well as introducing them to some of our fave game-making tools (Interactive storytelling tool Twine, and pixel game maker Bitsy).
We’ve read their incredible comic: AARNUAQ – THE AMULET, which was created by children from The Children’s Home in Uummannaq with Kim Wendt & Søren Alfred Olsen. It tells the story of Albert, a young orphaned man who lives as a hunter in Greenland, and we’ve started to work together to make the comic into an interactive game! It’s been great fun seeing the comic come to life, and collaborating with the children in Uummannaq to explore how to make their comic world interactive.
In our Hybrid Games Club we’ve started to explore ice as a theme, setting two games on an icy planet Neptune: a platformer game where you play as a melting ice block, and a survival card game about Penguins.
We’re SO excited for collaborations & conversations to continue over the coming months, and looking forward to hosting a group from Uummannaq with us in Edinburgh in March next year!
The Arctic Connections Fund was set up in 2021 to help Scottish organisations and communities work with partners in the Arctic. It is designed to promote the exchange of expertise on shared issues and raise awareness of common ambitions.
Scotland’s External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson said:
“Scotland is one of the Arctic’s closest neighbours; we share many outlooks and characteristics. That’s why we continue to promote Scotland as the international partner of choice for our Arctic neighbours, opening new opportunities for bilateral and multilateral collaboration for mutual benefit.
“The Arctic Connections Fund supports knowledge exchange and cooperation between Scotland-based organisations and their Arctic counterparts while also encouraging future opportunities for collaboration.”
Find out more about Scottish Government’s Arctic Connections Fund projects here:
https://twitter.com/ScotGovInter/status/1701179516914155538
https://www.gov.scot/publications/arctic-connections-fund-successful-projects-2023-to-2024/
