Lighthouse has developed a programme of education activity that introduces young people to inspiring ways of using digital technology as part of Brighton Digital Festival. The programme is delivered throughout September.
Lives at War is a game that has been developed in collaboration with designers Corporation Pop, students from Longhill High School and a group of older people from Brighton and Hove who were alive during World War 2.
Over the past year, as part of a wider education project called Past Present, students have been visiting Mass Observation Archive, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Whitehawk Air Raid Shelter and Lighthouse, doing video editing, collecting oral histories and undertaking research. Using this information, and working with older people, they have designed and made characters, stories and films that make up the Lives at War game. The game is based on a collection of films from Screen Archive South East, which is a partner in the project. These films from a collection called Films from the Home Front, have inspired the design and feel of the game as well as its characters and storyline. The game has been built and designed by Corporation Pop, incorporating the media created by young people.
Lives at War gives young people an opportunity to immerse themselves in a game environment that has films and information that are embedded in interactive objects, teaching young people about what it was like to live on the home front in World War 2.
The game will be launched with introductions and an opportunity to play the game and see some of the work developed by younger people, including films, drawings and oral histories.
