Game Description

The guest is placed in the NW Palace at Nimrud circa the Neo-Assyrian period. They have in their possession a camera with which they can take pictures of the palace and any objects or people they come across while exploring. The guest has free reign of where they wish to travel within the palace grounds. The goal of the agme is to find the artifacts from the Walters Art Museum's collection as they would have appeared in the Palace in ancient times and take photographs of them. When the player takes a photograph of an artifact, they are rewarded with some in-depth information about the artifact and a picture of the artifact as it appears today.

Within the palace, there are several artifacts from the WAM collection: decorative carved ivory furniture pieces, large stone decorative panels with relief carvings of the semi-divine genius figure, and delicate cylinder seals. In addition to the artifacts from the WAM collection, there is a mud brick from UCLA's archives that showcases handwritten cuneiform. Besides these artifacts, the palace is furnished as it might have been during the Neo-Assyrian period and the walls are richly painted to immerse the guest into the experience.

Along with the static objects inside the palace, there are also several NPCs populating the space. Most mind their own business, but some interact with the player at specific locations to help guide them to the artifacts and also to give them more in-depth information about the time period.

The player is given a roll of film with 12 shots and a 5 minute time limit (their camera's battery) because the experience will eventually be installed on a kiosk at the Walters Art Museum. When the player has used up their whole roll of film or time has run out, they are presented with a photo album of all the pictures they took.