Zeitmaschine Spiele

PLAYING WITH MEMORIES AND PHOTOSGuess and remember with pictures and memories from the generation game Zeitmaschine.TV.
The three games dynamically retrieve soundtracks and photos from the database, appealing to different senses.
All three games can be played with groups of residents by showing them on a large screen.
On the iPad and tablet, "Time series" and "Hear play" are played alone and "Picture parts" in pairs.• With «Time series» three, four or five pictures must be arranged chronologically by dragging.• «Picture Parts» is played in pairs.
Thanks to a screen folded from an A4 sheet of paper, the two players only see half of the screen.
Player A describes a picture, player B guesses the appropriate section.• In the «Hör-Spiel», 3 to 6 images can be seen while the beginning of a soundtrack is being played.
If this stops, the appropriate picture can be clicked.
If the tip was wrong, the audio track continues until the next guessing pause.THE GENERATION GAME «BUILD TIME MACHINE»The «time machine games» are based on photos, soundtracks and short films from the generational game «build a time machine!» Pupils from the age of 13 visit eyewitnesses and ask them about their childhood and youth.
They make short films from the stories and private photos, which they publish on the freely accessible database Zeitmaschine.TV.
The association Zeitmaschine.TV has been implementing the generation project from Bern to Berlin since 2008 and has published around 1,000 film clips to date.FOR AGE FACILITIES AND OTHERSThe first audience for the "Time Machine Games" are residents of retirement homes.
The games should revive the culture of remembrance and stimulate communication among the residents.
Other areas of application are also planned and have already been tested.
The app was also tested with students during development.
The game "Picture Parts", which requires little historical knowledge but good eyesight, is also very popular with children.
Together with the "audio game", with which they can also practice understanding Swiss dialects.COLLABORATION WITH THE INSTITUTE FOR DATA SCIENCEThis app was created in cooperation with the association Zeitmaschine.TV and the Institute for Data Science of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW.
The institute specializes in IT applications in the area of ​​"aging".The app was co-designed by Christian Lüthi, the initiator and manager of the association Zeitmaschine.TV and created by the IT students Dominique Lagger and Gian-Luca Caluori as part of their bachelor thesis.
The refinement was carried out by the two on a voluntary basis after their degrees.TEST PLAY DURING THE PANDEMICIn order to adapt the app to the physical and cognitive possibilities of the digitally inexperienced target group, rounds of test games were carried out in three retirement homes in Bern and Basel.
With the Burgerspittel, the Domicil Schwabgut and the generation house Neubad, very different institutions could be won for this.Despite the obligation to wear masks, some of the residents too, the tests provided a lot of information for optimization.
They brought some variety to the very monotonous everyday life of the players who were born between 1945 and 1927 during the pandemic.FOR TABLETS, SMARTPHONES AND USE VIA BEAMER AND TVThe app with the three "time machine games" runs smoothly on all Android tablets.
For use in retirement homes or schools, the guessing games "time series" and especially "audio game" are a lot of fun, even with larger groups.
To do this, tablets or smartphones are mirrored on the computer and projected via projector or transmitted to a TV screen.
The “time machine games” are also available as an iOS app for iPads and iPhones.