New edugame about Pompeii coming soon. You win by escaping the 79 AD eruption.

A new edugame reconstructs, in a scientific and historical manner, the destruction of Pompeii following theeruption of Mount Vesuvius. Goal: escape the volcano’s eruption in 79 A.D. to safety, leaving the city near total destruction. Vesuvius 79 AD.- Escape from Pompeii, the innovative edu-boardgame whose first print run is scheduled for November-December 2023 (mass production from February 2024), is produced by Stupor Mundi Trans-Media, a Neapolitan Cross-Gamification company, and Accademia del Fantastico, as part of the Crossmedial Edutainment project: Annales Experience / Stupor Mundi Transmedia project, in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, which is providing its expertise to provide the scientific, historical and iconographic background, both to the author, and to the illustrators, game designers, cartoonists, modelers and programmers of the Accademia del Fantastico.

Conceived by Ciro Sapone, Vesuvius is an innovative educational board game in that, thanks to the close collaboration between the Park’s experts, the author and his team, the characters assigned to the players are real citizens who inhabited the city of Pompeii, whose names, trades and in some cases portraits have come down to us, which then, cartoonists and illustrators transformed into the game’s protagonists.

“The game is part of the Park’s educational activities and initiatives,” says director Gabriel Zuchtriegel. “as an innovative tool that in a simple way, through the ’game’ precisely, contributes to heritage education, which is among the missions of our Institute.”

The dynamics of the eruption trace the phases of the catastrophic event that buried the city within twenty-four hours, reconstructed by scholars and narrated by sources. During the escape from the city, the characters will pass through some of the city’s most important places and buildings, including the House of the Vetti, the Regio V Thermopolis, the Modesto Bakery, the Palestra Grande, Via dell’Abbondanza, and many more.

Completing the project will be a multilingual augmented reality App, downloadable for free from the Android and ios online stores, which will allow players, by framing miniatures of game characters or illustrations of places with smartphones and tablets, to access historical and scientific information, three-dimensional models, and connect to the official website and social media of the Pompeii Archaeological Park. Also planned for the future are possible expansions of the game, which will be distributed online, dedicated to other sites in the Park, including Oplontis and Stabiae.

The game will be produced in nine languages, will have Italian and international distribution, and will be on sale at bookstores, comic stores, game-gadget and toy stores, and large online distribution at the manufacturer’s e-commerce and major international platforms.

New edugame about Pompeii coming soon. You win by escaping the 79 AD eruption.

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