Video games offer new ways to engage audiences with cultural heritage beyond traditional museum settings. However, can video games authentically replicate the narrative depth of museum experiences while promoting the positive attitudinal impacts museums seek to achieve? This study investigates whether a narrative-driven video game, We Grew Up in War, inspired by historical research and curatorial practice can positively influence players' attitudes towards the depicted topics. The game employs complementary multiperspectivity, a storytelling strategy that presents different but thematically aligned perspectives focused on the topics of refugees and migration. Using a pretest-posttest design with experimental and control groups (n = 116), we measured both explicit and implicit attitude changes. Results show that players who played the game exhibited significantly more positive explicit attitudes than those in the control group (d = 0.33, p = .037). Implicit attitudes did not significantly differ between groups. A more detailed analysis showed that there was a statistically significant change in players' affective responses between the pretest and posttest, whereas no such significant change was observed in the cognitive or behavioral components of explicit attitudes. Despite using a short prototype of the game (approx. 23 minutes), these findings suggest that video games can be effectively employed in promoting cultural heritage and attitude change to wide audiences across geographical boundaries.

Meet the Members! Anima Mundi started in February 2025 and will go through until July 2028. The project aims to enhance the visibility of the European animation industry across EU Member States and abroad and it brings together 13 European beneficiaries from academic, institutional, and industrial backgrounds. By focusing on IP practices, international partnerships and digital discoverability, ANIMA MUNDI develops a strategic and innovative approach around three key objectives: 1.     provide a mapping and assessment of the ways in which it is possible to increase the visibility of and access to European animation internationally, 2.     pilot the transformative impact of European Animation, by investigating practices and innovative hubs of creativity, with a special focus on children and youth, and 3.     co-test the potential of European Animation to strengthen cooperation among stakeholders involved in the CCIs and to establish strategic alliances with other sectors. 👉 Follow: https://lnkd.in/dJ854AGf 👉 Visit website: https://lnkd.in/dhbFyZ_C

Meet the Members! Strategies Horizon (Sustainable TRAnsiTion for Europe’s Game IndustrIES ) is a groundbreaking, four-year research project designed to help game developers lead Europe’s creative and ...

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"Those from Below", an interactive documentary-style VR game that chronicles the experiences of Italian coal miners in Bois du Cazier, Belgium. This immersive journey will allow players to explore the miners' underground working conditions and living quarters, experience their daily hardships, and g

Trailer for We Grew Up in War, a new game developed by Charles Games in collaboration with the War Childhood Museum. The game was created for MEMENTOES, an EU-funded project that brings museums and game developers into collaborations to develop high-quality games that promote cultural memory, histo