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<h1>Ötzit!</h1>
<p>
<em>South Tyrol. The year is 3300BC.</em> Ötzi &mdash;
<a href="https://www.iceman.it/en/the-iceman/" target="_blank">the Iceman</a>
for his friends &mdash; is crossing the border to Austria in search of a quiet
place to retire after a lifetime of hunting. Forest animals got the word and
are hellbent on stopping him. He needs your help to fend them off and avoid
getting stampeded.
</p>
<h2>How to play</h2>
<p>
You must quickly type the falling words and help Ötzi along his difficult
path.
</p>
<p></p>
<p>In addition to the usual letter keys, you will need a few more:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>ENTER</code> (<kbd></kbd>) confirms a word,</li>
<li><code>BACKSPACE</code> (<kbd></kbd>) deletes a letter,</li>
<li><code>SHIFT</code> (<kbd></kbd>) uppercases a letter,</li>
<li><code>ESCAPE</code> (<kbd>Esc</kbd>) pauses the game.</li>
</ul>
<p>
<strong>Warning:</strong> to play on desktop you will need a German keyboard.
</p>
<p>
Some knowledge of German may help, but it's not necessary. It's far more
important to have some familiarity with the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur" target="_blank"
>Fraktur script</a
>
you will be reading. By the way, here's the alphabet:
</p>
<p>
<img src="https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzg3Mjc3ODIucG5n/original/JM29eG.png" />
</p>
<h2>Technical information</h2>
<p>
This is a custom purpose game developed by the Institute of Applied
Linguistics at Eurac Research for the
<a href="https://all4ling.eurac.edu/projects/zeitshift/" target="_blank"
>Zeit.shift project</a
>. Zeit.shift has digitised approximately 500,000 pages of historical Tyrolean
newspapers, and seeks to promote access to these digital collections through
the development of games, activities, as well as an e-learning course.
</p>
<p>
Ötzit! primarily targets German-speaking players in the 11-14 age group but is
open to all casual gamers alike. The goal of the game is to increase
players&apos; awareness of the digitised newspaper collections, their ability
to read historical documents written in Gothic script (<em>Fraktur</em>) and
their knowledge of Tyrolean history.
</p>
<p>
All data anonymously contributed by the players (i.e. typed words) is analysed
and used by the project to research automated means of crowdsourcing OCR
corrections and improve the searchability of the digitised collections.
</p>
<h2>Credits</h2>
<p>This project is realized through the collaboration of these institutions:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a
href="https://www.eurac.edu/en/institutes-centers/institute-for-applied-linguistics"
target="_blank"
>Institute of Applied Linguistics at Eurac Research</a
>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.tessmann.it/en/home.html" target="_blank"
>Landesbibliothek Dr. Friedrich Teßmann</a
>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/ulb/" target="_blank"
>Universitäts und Landesbibliothek Tirol</a
>
</li>
</ul>
<p>All game assets are used for free thanks to these generous artists:</p>
<ul>
<li>
the player sprite is
<a href="https://chierit.itch.io/elementals-ground-monk" target="_blank"
>Elementals: Ground Monk</a
>
by <a href="https://chierit.itch.io/" target="_blank">chierit</a>,
</li>
<li>
the animals sprites are
<a
href="https://opengameart.org/content/animated-wild-animals"
target="_blank"
>Animated Wild Animals</a
>
by
<a href="https://opengameart.org/users/scratchio" target="_blank"
>ScratchIO</a
>,
</li>
<li>
the forest background is
<a href="https://edermunizz.itch.io/free-pixel-art-forest" target="_blank"
>Free Pixel Art Forest</a
>
by <a href="https://edermunizz.itch.io/" target="_blank">edermunizz</a>,
</li>
<li>
the sound effects are from
<a
href="https://jdwasabi.itch.io/8-bit-16-bit-sound-effects-pack"
target="_blank"
>8-bit / 16-bit Sound Effects (x25) Pack</a
>
by <a href="https://jdwasabi.itch.io/" target="_blank">jdwasabi</a>,
</li>
<li>
the music is from
<a href="https://gooseninja.itch.io/minimalistc-loops" target="_blank"
>Minimalistic Loops</a
>
by <a href="https://gooseninja.itch.io/" target="_blank">gooseninja</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
This game is developed by
<a href="https://github.com/paolobrasolin" target="_blank">Paolo Brasolin</a>
c/o
<a href="https://www.eurac.edu/it/people/paolo-brasolin" target="_blank"
>IAL @ Eurac Research</a
>
and released under the MIT Licence. You can find the source code
<a href="https://gitlab.inf.unibz.it/commul/oetzit" target="_blank">here</a>.
</p>
<p>
Special thanks to
<a href="https://www.giovannimoretti.it" target="_blank">Giovanni Moretti</a>.
</p>
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