Serious Game Design and Art Therapy was a project directed by Professor Joseph Defazio from IUPUI. The project is centered around educational games, with the main focus being "The Isles of Langerhand". "The Isles of Langerhand" follows a viking as they learn to manage and learn their diabetes, through managing their characters own diabetes, and through interacting with NPCs. The game is designed to educate while maintaining a fun and entertaining experience.
"The Isles of Langerhand" is in the early stages of development.
Serious Game design and art therapy
The Isles of Langerhand
The Benjamin Harrison Home is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization, whose purpose is to maintain and preserve the Harrison home, collections, and grounds as a museum and memorial to the only president of the United States elected from Indiana. Open to the public as an educational and historical service, they seek to promote patriotism and citizenship through appropriate educational activities and by artfully exhibiting the Victorian time period as Harrison and his family might have experienced it.
This Project is an on-going collaboration with the Presidential site for the past 3 years. Starting as a capstone, this project strives to bring accessibility to anyone online that wishes to experience these historic artifacts.
Artifact and Artifiction is two-part project, created in collaboration with the Benjamin
Harrison Presidential Site. One half consists of a 3D Virtual Reality Gallery. In which, you are able to view and pick up scanned artifacts that exist at the real Presidential site. This allows those who are not able to come to the presidential site to experience the history stored in the house.
The other half of the project is a fully 3D printed, life-size statue of Benjamin Harrison. This statue is based upon a real statue that has been scanned using photogrammetry and created into a 3D Asset. This Asset has been broken into segments for ease of printing and will be able to be assembled similarly to a jigsaw puzzle.
The Madam C. J. Walker Building, which houses the Madam Walker Legacy Center, was built in 1927 in the city of Indianapolis, in the U.S. state of Indiana, and as Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991. The four-story, multi-purpose Walker Building was named in honor of Madam C. J. Walker, the African American hair care and beauty products entrepreneur who founded the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company, and designed by the Indianapolis architectural firm of Rubush & Hunter. The building served as the world headquarters for Walker's company, as well as entertainment, business, and commercial hub along Indiana Avenue for the city's African American community from the 1920s to the 1950s. The historic gathering place and venue for community events and arts and cultural programs were saved from demolition in the 1970s. The restored building, which includes African, Egyptian, and Moorish designs, is one of the few remaining African-Art Deco buildings in the United States. The Walker Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
