Lives in Transit

I'm an open-source platform based at the University of Zurich for creating and playing digital humanities games

[Lives in Transit @TransitLives]

"Lives in Transit is an interactive, text-based game which simulates the experience of researching and writing global history" ...

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Migration complete. Hopefully all is working well but please let us know if not. Thanks to all involved on the UZH side!

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Hi all, we are running a system migration this afternoon (Tuesday 6th April, Swiss time). Apologies in advance for any temporary disruption.

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But for Danny’s technical expertise, enthusiasm in the @digihistlab classroom and understanding of the digital humanities landscape, we are very grateful, and we wish him all the best for his future career. #digitalhumanities

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Today we bid farewell to @interro_gator (aka Dr Daniel McDonald), who leaves S3IT @UZH_en for a new job. Danny has worked on LiT since August 2019, and he was crucial to overseeing the game to successful launch earlier this year …

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We thank Danny for his wonderful work on LiT. True, the only action shot we could find of him developing the game shows him pouring cold water—a metaphor for IT experts working with historians, perhaps? 😄

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Hi all, LiT will be doing a live update this afternoon CET so it's possible there will be a short disruption if you are playing the game then. Apologies for that.

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Many thanks to Sabine Kaeser and to @DH_unibe for their write-up of our LiT presentation on 21 September: https://t.co/NgUCdUBGtN Hope to see you in person at some point in the not-too-distant future to continue these discussions! Thanks also to @interro_gator and Leyla Feiner

[DH Unibe @DH_unibe]

Der erste Blogpost zur Ringvorlesung «Einblicke in die Digital Humanities» ist online: https://t.co/07V0PiXKbW zu @TransitLives. Morgen geht's in der Reihe weiter mit @SilkeSchwandt.

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Many thanks to all our colleagues and former testers who attended our internal launch of LiT at @UZH_en's Geschichtskontor history-writing workshop yesterday, including @Modo_2015 and @GesineKruger . Lots of great questions which we hope we can reflect on in the next few days.

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Welcome to @dh_grundig , who takes up her new position as the Coordinator of the @UZH_en Digital History Lab today. We're all greatly looking forward to working with you!

[Dr. Christine Grundig @dh_grundig]

Extremely happy to support the team of the Digital History Lab of Historisches Seminar @UZH_ch @UZH_en @UZH_dsi @TransitLives as coordinator from today onwards besides my other projects! #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #digitalhistorylab #DigitalArtHistory #DH

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And for anyone wondering what on earth "Plantation Lives" refers to, it's the main storyline we've been developing in https://t.co/JDpU5NG6DK for the last couple of years. But there are others, too, which you'll find on the "Select a topic" page...

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Many thanks to all the students and participants at our @DH_unibe session yesterday. Great questions all around, especially on how to "end" a game which is about the process of research. How does our work ever end, we might ask... Play the "Plantation Lives" storyline to see!

[DH Unibe @DH_unibe]

Der Stream für unsere Ringvorlesung (via youtube) wird pünktlich zum Start um 14:15 Uhr auf der Website publiziert. Heute mit @TransitLives.

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Hi all: after a slight, er, hiatus, we are back and the game is finished! https://t.co/JDpU5NG6DK
Very happy to be beginning a series of virtual launch events today at @DH_unibe at 14.15. Many thanks to @thist_be for the invitation.

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And finally to the keynote lecture by @CeliaHodent, author of "The Gamer's Brain", on "Key Ingredients of Engaging Games". More here: https://t.co/98Qt79MJn4. Greatly looking forward to this! #gameUX #ethics

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Great to see what colleagues at @UZH_en are also doing in the realm of #seriousmoralgames. We share many game mechanisms and learning aims; LiT hopes to deepen dialogue with them and share expertise in the months ahead. Thanks, Nikola Biller-Andorno, @jkatsarov and others

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Meanwhile, we've also been attending the Serious Games for Ethics Training in Medicine at the @ETH_en Collegium Helveticum today: https://t.co/vulSvI2Mzh

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Hi everyone, we’re back. As we move towards full launch we’re writing the final Evaluation Page, where the player gets their “scores” for playing. Project member Leyla Feiner will be working on this and will Tweet for feedback and suggestions. Thanks in advance for your help!

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Thanks to everyone involved yesterday, and to Martin Dusinberre's MA students in global history for their feedback last week. We'll be off Twitter for a couple of weeks but then back in the new year as we move towards full release... Thanks all!

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A final shout-out of the year to our wonderful UZH students, who have tested, critiqued and inspired LiT. And now we are beginning to explore the possibilities for student-led content creation. Here project member Helena Jaskov teaching a group of BA students yesterday…

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We thank Pim for all his brilliant work over the last three years. @witloxp you are always welcome to bring your confident (and occasionally correct) contributions to our pub quiz team in the future 😉 All the best to you.