Summary of Approach
We took on the ambitious goal of building a fully immersive video game within a non-fiction storytelling framework. Most games are works of fiction. What we wanted to do was re-envision what non-fiction can look like as an immersive experience.

To this end, we recreated the Nashville 1960 Sit-ins, focusing on the sites and sounds and artifacts from the era while giving the player agency to explore and create their own movement.

Subject-Matter/Problem Background
Young people today are striving to make social change, but they often don’t know how to be effective Change Agents.

Overcoming leverages history from the Civil Rights Movement to connect past and present movements for racial justice, teach young people how social movements are built, and promote their self-efficacy as change agents.

Through Diane Nash’s experience as a student leader in the Nashville Civil Rights Movement, learners see how ordinary citizens accomplished incredible social change.

XR Platform
Oculus

Project Presentation
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LOEwMGXIdYKyxKe42YlYsJofdzkkD0TaUqkItbVOA5E/edit#slide=id.ge0b145d6bb_0_70

Full Credits for all of the Team Members and Contributors
Dennis Morgan (Game and UX Design), Ann Bennett(XR Producer / Researcher), Eileen McGivney (Learning Experience Design & Research), and Yash M. (XR Engineer /
Researcher)