Little Manila: A Digital Recreation
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2017
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Little Manila was once a vibrant Filipino community in Stockton, California, decimated by a freeway construction project that began in the 1960s and took nearly three decades to complete. This paper describes our initial efforts to digitally recreate Lit-tle Manila as it appeared during the mid-twentieth century. Our game-like environment was developed primarily by an inter-disciplinary team of undergraduate students who worked on the project during a five week summer fellowship. The team in-cluded two history majors, two graphic design majors, a computer science major, and a geological science major. The team managed itself using the Scrum methodology for software development, which included daily stand-up meetings that served to enhance communication and facilitate collaboration among team members. The current version of the software allows users to interact with non-player characters (NPCs) and explore many of the buildings near the intersection of El Dorado and Lafa-yette Streets, the center of Little Manila, to learn more about life for Filipino immigrants during the time period of the recrea-tion. At the conclusion of the fellowship a ''Big Reveal'' event was held to demonstrate the software to members of the commu-nity. Nearly 120 people attended the event, with reactions from audience members ranging from tears to cries of recognition.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:gch.20171299,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage},
editor = {Tobias Schreck and Tim Weyrich and Robert Sablatnig and Benjamin Stular},
title = {{Little Manila: A Digital Recreation}},
author = {Salyers, Joshua and Cliburn, Daniel and Sparks, Edith and Culilap, Jamie Lynn and Kuo, Sarah and Sabbatino, Kyle and Sanchez, Ronnie and Thomasson, Danielle and Tvergyak, Hannah},
year = {2017},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2312-6124},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-037-6},
DOI = {10.2312/gch.20171299}
}