Apply now for Fall 2025 Games Internships in JapanLab and Epoch: History Games Initiative
A Witch Before the Inquisition
Develop an immersive-role playing video game that takes players through the twists and turns of a witchcraft trial! A Witch Before the Inquisition follows the testimony of alleged witch Paula de Eguiluz in seventeenth-century Cartagena de Indias (modern day Colombia). The game is part of Epoch: History Games Initiative which is a partner with JapanLab. Click on the image to find out more or apply directly here.
A Living Map: Rebuilding Treaty Port Nagasaki
The treaty port city of Nagasaki was a world unto itself in the late nineteenth century, where fortunes could be made and lost, where goods from all over the world could be found, where there was just enough confusion about who was in charge to make fraud a lucrative enterprise. Aspirational fraudsters like Toyama Ichiya, a down-on-his-luck Kumamoto samurai, rubbed shoulders with merchants, diplomats, missionaries, vagrants, sailors, innkeepers, shopkeepers, and families from dozens of different nationalities who mixed, mingled, and squabbled within the city’s borders. This Nagasaki has been lost to time. Can it be rebuilt? In this project, the team will combine GIS data, historical research, 3D modeling, and video game engines to create an interactive 3-D map of the city of Nagasaki. Click on the image to find out more or apply directly here.
The Samurai’s Ledger: Balancing Honor and Debt
For many samurai during the Edo period (1600-1868), their most threatening enemies were not other warriors, but debt and taxes. How does one do battle with a bill? This team will create a resource-management game that casts the player as head of household of a low-ranking samurai family trying to get by in the changing economic realities of eighteenth-century Japan. The head of a household was responsible for ensuring the continuation of the family line, which involved juggling the financial, personal, and professional needs of all its members. If your pay never changes, and everything keeps getting more expensive, how are you going to pay your debts? Click on the image to find out more or apply directly here.
YOU CAN APPLY FOR THESE PROJECTS HERE. APPLY BY 9 APRIL 2025.
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