The Community Game Development Toolkit / The Raisin Truck Makes Raisins // Daniel Lichtman

The Community Game Development Toolkit is a set of tools that make it easy and fun for students, artists, researchers and community members to create their own visually rich, interactive 3D environments and story-based games without the use of coding or other specialized game-design skills. The toolkit provides intuitive tools for diverse communities to represent their own traditions, rituals and heritages through interactive, visual storytelling. The Raisin Truck Makes Raisins is a collaboratively produced, interactive 3D environment that uses collage, spatial orientation/disorientation and organized chaos to reflect on the experience of caring for young children during pandemic and lockdown. The game is produced with care-takers from a variety of family configurations, living and employment situations.