“A Game 10,000 Years in the Making”

• Main Author: Gaertner, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Università degli studi di Napoli "L’Orientale" 2022
• Subjects: inuit
• Online Access: http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/9606; https://doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/9606

Inuit adaptation technologies, which have been in place for thousands of years, provide unique insight into the burgeoning field of Indigenous video game studies by advancing sovereign articulations of technology in digital space. Grounded in the principles of ikiaqtaq, an adaptation of a song, Never Alone / Kisima Ingitchuna (2014), extends and nuances how Indigenous stories translate into video games by foregrounding community sustainability and cultural flexibility. Addressing Iñupiaq video game development specifically, this essay demonstrates how ikiaqtaq, as demonstrated in Never Alone,generates the conditions for sovereign storytelling in the digital. Inuit adaptation technologies, which have been in place for thousands of years, provide unique insight into the burgeoning field of Indigenous video game studies by advancing sovereign articulations of technology in digital space. Grounded in the principles of ikiaqtaq, an adaptation of a song, Never Alone / Kisima Ingitchuna (2014), extends and nuances how Indigenous stories translate into video games by foregrounding community sustainability and cultural flexibility. Addressing Iñupiaq video game development specifically, this essay demonstrates how ikiaqtaq, as demonstrated in Never Alone,generates the conditions for sovereign storytelling in the digital.