This session will feature “Climbing Sacred Mountain”, a digital game based on the documentary film, “Daughters of Everest,” about the inspiring journey of the first Nepalese women’s mountain climbing expedition. This innovative game integrates documentary footage and offers an engaging narrative experience where players work together to summit the mountain.

In this session, we will demo early iterations of the game, and discuss the questions and challenges raised when moving a story from one media environment to another, especially when seeking to engage audiences around urgent social themes in new ways.

For example, does the game just replicate the stories in the film or is the game a unique experience? Who does one need to work with to take a game design to deeper, more complex level? Using our game as an example, we will discuss the potential and complications in expanding a documentary film into a transmedia project that includes a meaningful and effective game.