{"id":10371,"date":"2023-06-12T08:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T06:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/12\/the-light-in-the-darkness-review-a-sobering-free-educational-game-that-confronts-the-holocaust\/"},"modified":"2023-06-12T08:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T06:38:01","slug":"the-light-in-the-darkness-review-a-sobering-free-educational-game-that-confronts-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/12\/the-light-in-the-darkness-review-a-sobering-free-educational-game-that-confronts-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light in the Darkness review \u2013 a sobering free educational game that confronts the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Voices of the Forgotten; Arcade Distillery;<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/p\/the-light-in-the-darkness-6ee5e4\">Windows\/PC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-us\/concept\/10002497#\">PlayStation 5, Xbox<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Combining cartoon graphics and documentary evidence, this first-person adventure telling the story of a Jewish family in Nazi-occupied Paris delivers a vital historical message<\/p>\n<p>Countless video games depict the second world war. Most guide players towards the battlefield, with its widescreen explosions and opportunities for sharpshooting heroics. Few head for the death camps. The video game medium is perhaps seen as too playful, too flippant, too lowbrow to approach the 20th century\u2019s looming vortex of atrocity.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Light in the Darkness<\/em>, a new game available for free as an educational tool, follows a an \u00e9migr\u00e9 Polish Jewish family \u2013 a husband and wife and their son \u2013 living in France during the Nazi occupation. It does not make it as far as the gas chambers; the camera pulls away at the point at which the characters board the train. But there is no doubt as to where the tracks lead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/jun\/10\/the-light-in-the-darkness-review-a-sobering-free-educational-game-that-confronts-the-holocaust\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/86bc0b7f479a86c923fcef077a894c06081f66d9\/197_117_3092_1856\/master\/3092.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a6c91d4c73d17d1661a34bf22ac93e79\" title=\"The Light in the Darkness review \u2013 a sobering free educational game that confronts the Holocaust\" \/>Voices of the Forgotten; Arcade Distillery; Windows\/PC, PlayStation 5, XboxCombining cartoon graphics and documentary evidence, this first-person adventure telling the story of a Jewish family in Nazi-occupied Paris delivers a vital historical message<br \/>\nCountless video games depict the second world war. Most guide players towards the battlefield, with its widescreen explosions and opportunities for sharpshooting heroics. Few head for the death camps. The video game medium is perhaps seen as too playful, too flippant, too lowbrow to approach the 20th century\u2019s looming vortex of atrocity.<br \/>\nThe Light in the Darkness, a new game available for free as an educational tool, follows a an \u00e9migr\u00e9 Polish Jewish family \u2013 a husband and wife and their son \u2013 living in France during the Nazi occupation. It does not make it as far as the gas chambers; the camera pulls away at the point at which the characters board the train. But there is no doubt as to where the tracks lead. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voices of the Forgotten; Arcade Distillery; Windows\/PC, PlayStation 5, XboxCombining cartoon graphics and documentary evidence, this first-person adventure telling the story of a Jewish family in Nazi-occupied Paris delivers a vital historical message Countless video games depict the second world war. Most guide players towards the battlefield, with its widescreen explosions and opportunities for sharpshooting &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/12\/the-light-in-the-darkness-review-a-sobering-free-educational-game-that-confronts-the-holocaust\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Light in the Darkness review \u2013 a sobering free educational game that confronts the Holocaust<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}