Martha Attridge Bufton is the the Interdisciplinary Studies Librarian at the Carleton University Library. And Alesya Moshchenskaya is currently pursing a graduate degree in Industrial Design, also at Carleton University. The two are working on a project associated with a first-year seminar course being co-taught by Martha Attridge Bufton titled Imagine|Question|Search|Synthesize: Critical foundations in undergraduate research (FYSM1001).
In the seminar, the instructors are running an immersive role-playing game entitled “Do we take shelter?”, designed for students to evaluate “high stakes” information. “Do we take shelter?” offers students the opportunity to apply what they have learned about evaluating information to a historical scenario: the bombing of Manchester, England in December 1943. This multimedia game can be played either face-to-face or online and includes a digital space in which gameplay happens as well as print materials and a student handbook published in Pressbooks. The digital space is created in Twine, an open-source software for creating non-linear narratives, and it takes place over two 90-minute classroom sessions.
