Assassin’s Creed Mirage is out and we’re taking a wee breather while we regroup and look for funding to continue our work.
If you’d like to help keep our small but dedicated team going, we invite you to support our work to make Islamic art, architecture, cultural heritage, and histories widely accessible beyond the academy. You can donate here.
Thank you for your support!
UPDATED 22 October, 2023
Have you played, or are you planning to play Digital Munya 2 or The Córdoba Journey?
Are you an educator planning to use any of these games in your teaching?
Are you interested in lesson plans and other educator resources?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, we’d love to see you in our new Discord space, sharing feedback, comments, and questions, and getting to know others in our growing international community of people who are seriously interested in the intersection of video games/XR+ and Islamic architecture, art, history, and cultural heritage.
BUT, the team is on hiatus following the successful launch of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, and we’re delaying the official launch of the Digital Lab Discord while we take a well-deserved rest.
We’ll be back!
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Thanks for your support and interest!
Our Assassin’s Creed Mirage/History of Baghdad project with Ubisoft has received lots of press in the UK, including a BBC Scotland interview with Glaire Anderson about her role – have a look!
Ubisoft has now released the official announcement about our work on the new Assassin’s Creed Mirage educational feature!
The new in-game feature is part of a Codex that brings Islamic art, architecture, history, and artefacts from partner museum collections to wide audiences beyond the academy.
You can find all the details on the Ubisoft website here.
Enjoy!
Now available, our collaboration with game development team The Luminous Sheep, at Abertay University, this game introduces players of all ages to the archaeology, visual culture, and history of caliphal Cordoba, capital of Islamic Iberia (Arabic al-Andalus).
Can you spot the connection to Digital Munya 2?
Now available – the Digital Munya 2 app for Mac OS! Leave us a comment if you play – we welcome feedback that will help us improve future versions. Thank you and enjoy!
Digital Lab founding leader Glaire Anderson presented her ongoing video games projects last week, in the Research Seminar in Islamic Art (ReSIA), School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London.
Topics discussed:
We’re honoured to acknowledge the generous support of the Barakat Trust for our project with leading global video game publisher Ubisoft, to make Islamic art and history accessible to a wide public audience in the UK and around the globe.
Read the full announcement here.
