Haven
Weston Game Lab | Digital Game
Haven is a multimedia role-playing game that includes storytelling, puzzle solving, and social elements. The game was designed to help orient new students at the University of Chicago to the Core curriculum, principles of free expression, and university life. Created by the Weston Game Lab and Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse, Haven offers an immersive experience in which players join Haven, a prestigious school in the Pacific Ocean in an unspecified moment in the future, which is made up of five islands: Artificial Island (sciences), Coral Island (arts), Oceanic Island (humanities), Tidal Island (social sciences), and Volcanic Island. Students participate in university life while trying to solve a mystery about the genesis of the school.
The current version of Haven, which was played by students in July and August 2024, is composed of 130,000 words, 47 puzzles, and countless image and audio files.
A short video describing Haven.
Learn more about Haven directly from the creators.