{"id":21008,"date":"2026-04-24T19:21:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/?p=21008"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:21:47","slug":"yijun-betty-xie-selected-for-a-buch-digital-creators-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/2026\/04\/24\/yijun-betty-xie-selected-for-a-buch-digital-creators-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Yijun &#8220;Betty&#8221; Xie selected for a BUCH Digital Creators Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Yijun &#8220;Betty&#8221; 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.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Her video game, \u201cThe Path Home,\u201d originally created for Prof Cunningham&#8217;s &#8220;Slavery and the In-Between&#8221; course, is a Bitsy game that captures the successes, tragedies, and nuanced history and legacy of America\u2019s all-Black towns. Drawing on real-life experiences from the residents and founders of all-Black towns, players interact with a sort of \u201cliving history\u201d 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\u00a0in the construction of a town school, church, resident housing, all while tackling systemic challenges.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">You can play Betty&#8217;s game here: <a href=\"https:\/\/an287projectbx.itch.io\/the-path-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" id=\"OWA74a51373-8bdd-a036-bf67-5028c43512ff\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" data-linkindex=\"0\" title=\"https:\/\/an287projectbx.itch.io\/the-path-home\">https:\/\/an287projectbx.itch.io\/the-path-home<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her video game, \u201cThe Path Home,\u201d originally created for Prof Cunningham&#8217;s &#8220;Slavery and the In-Between&#8221; course<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4667,4626,3738],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21010,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions\/21010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}