Yijun “Betty” Xie selected for a BUCH Digital Creators Award

Yijun “Betty” Xie has been selected for a BUCH Digital Creators Award in the Game/App Design category! Her achievement will be celebrated at the upcoming annual BUCH Awards Ceremony.

Her video game, “The Path Home,” originally created for Prof Cunningham’s “Slavery and the In-Between” course, is a Bitsy game that captures the successes, tragedies, and nuanced history and legacy of America’s all-Black towns. Drawing on real-life experiences from the residents and founders of all-Black towns, players interact with a sort of “living history” as they converse, help, and receive aid from the budding community. Gameplay includes exploring the town to piece together real, historical accounts and testimonies and participate in the construction of a town school, church, resident housing, all while tackling systemic challenges.

You can play Betty’s game here: https://an287projectbx.itch.io/the-path-home