Blackhaven

Blackhaven is a game, developed by University of Connecticut Digital Media and Design Department game professor James Coltrain and his Historiated Games Studio, along with his collaborator, Xavier University of Louisiana mass communications professor Shearon Roberts. In the game, available for free on STEAM, an intern named Kendra Turner, a sophomore at a historically Black college/university investigates the eighteenth-century estate of fictional Founding Father Thomas Harwood. Turner, whose character was developed by Roberts and her students, navigates the “misdeeds” and “secrets” of Harwood and Blackhaven Hall. In designing the game, Coltrain envisioned a game that went beyond “edutainment” and offered an accurate portrayal of colonial and American revolutionary history. In an interview with UCONN Today. he also argued that video games have become “a cultural juggernaut” and that “historians should not ignore new media and technologies” (Kenneth Best, “Dmd Professor's ‘Blackhaven’ Game Lets Players Unravel Mysteries of the

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