-If I had unlimited time and resources to create a game based off of one thing we have learned this semester, I would create a virtual reality of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This museum is one of my favorites, and holds various collections of databases, containing more than 270,000 records. I think that a virtual reality of this museum will definitely be beneficial and spread awareness. Essentially, a virtual reality of this museum can also be extremely helpful to the people who live far from Washington D.C., which is where this museum is located.
-The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is significant to spread awareness of the many horrors that occurred during the Holocaust. This museum truly helped me feel more connected to my ancestors who were killed in this tragic time. I think that this museum is extremely sentimental, and personal, based on the many different interviews, home movies, memoirs, diaries and films shown throughout the museum. Many of the films in this museum contain historical forage and contemporary films about the Holocaust. I truly feel like everyone should at least have the possibility to tour this museum, which is why I chose to create my game based on the Holocaust in a virtual reality.
-Besides the unlimited information that will be shown in my virtual reality of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, there will be games on each floor of the museum. The ultimate goal is to end up on the third floor of the museum, where there are many essential historical artifacts. The player may advance to the next floor after they win that floor’s game.
-The first floor of my virtual reality tour of the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum will consists of documentaries, and realistic movies about the Holocaust. The documentaries and movies will be cut down in this virtual reality, but will address the main focus and message that the documentary or movie is trying to express. Each movie will be no longer than 10 minutes, allowing the player to truly take in the essential information. The player will then have to answer a series of trivia questions relating to the mini movie they watched. The player will not be able to advance to the next floor until they have answered every trivia question correct. This will definitely intrigue the player to closely analyze the essential parts of the mini movie they are shown on the first floor of the museum.
-Once the player answers all of the trivia questions correctly, they will then have access to the second floor of my virtual reality museum. The second floor is based on personal memoirs of Holocaust survivors. After the player fully reads the memoirs shown to them at random, they must play a matching game. There will be cards consisting of different names, all who wrote different Holocaust personal memoirs. Additionally, there will be another set of cards which consists of quotes, each from different Holocaust memoirs at the virtual museum. With these two sets of cards, the player must correctly match each memoir section, with the author who wrote it. The player will not be able to move onto the 3rd and last floor until they have matched all of the cards correctly.
-The final floor of the museum will consist of historical artifacts from the Holocaust. When the player reaches the third floor of the virtual museum, they basically won the game, and will now have access to see artifacts from the Holocaust, which are only present in this museum. A few of these artifacts consists of shoes, and the clothes that prisoners were forced to wear at the concentration and death camps.
Ultimately, I hope that that my virtual reality game of the United States Memorial Holocaust museum helps the reader gain more knowledge about this horrific tragedy, and will become intrigued to continue playing this game. The beauty of this game is that the trivia questions for each game will be chosen at random, so the player will be learning new information every time they play!
