The last and lost Franklin expedition has inspired hundreds of books, some of them historical books, others fiction ones, other times it has insired poems even and songs.. but what it is perhaps less known is that this ill-fated expedition has also inspired the construction of some toys and even recently has also inspired new and fascinating board games.
The first and oldest toy which I know is this item done likely by Roullet & Decamps. This kind of figures are called Automaton. This particular one could have been done in the late 19th. On this Automaton one of the sailors is persecuted by a Polar Bear while he climbs a ladder. The other sailor tries to defend himself from the bear waving an ice axe.
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Much more recently, in 2009, Russell Potter found this original replica of one of the famous Goldner red tins:
In 2012, three Spanish guys had the happy idea of making a board game based on the idea of the location of the Northwest Passage in the nineteenth century. The Board game is called "Northwest Passage adventure", apparently it has been done with the utmost careful and it has been based on accurate historical characters, ships and facts.
It seems that it is a funny game, besides the appearance, (box, the cards, etc.), is more than attractive for those who are captivated for the history of the discovery of the Northwest Passage. In the game you can play the role of characters as famous as John Richardson, Thomas Simpson, Robert McLure, John Franklin, William E. Parry, etc. You can find a more detailed description and pictures of the game here:
But this year, or better said, this month, a French man Yves Tourigny has developed a new board game which is called "Expedition: Northwest Passage", a new board game on which, the objective is basically going to the Canadian arctic archipiélago to locate the lost Franklin expedition, you have to deal with blocked ice passages, obtain information from the inuits, find lost cairns, etc. this game seems to be, as its predecesor, a funny and fascinating board game:
What is going to come now? A videogame? A rol game?,
What is clear is that the fascination that the Northwest Passage, the Franklin expedition and other related facts exerts over the public is deriving towards new horizons, which in this modern world on which we live of unlimited computerized possibilites, is sure that is going to amaze us soon.
How about a Visual Novel? C;
ResponderEliminarWhat about a Virtual Novel? ;)
ResponderEliminarI must be getting old, Noelia, What is a Virtual Novel??
ResponderEliminarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_novel
ResponderEliminarIf I hadn't been lazy >.< I'd have a demo to show you by now. It was meant as practice for a longer Ren'Py game ^^; ah, maybe one of these days.
Oh! I see, when I was young, (I still am, though less), I used to play with "Gamebooks" with my brothers, those Visual or Virtual novels must be the evolution of this books. We spent hours playing.
ResponderEliminarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamebook
It is a wonderful idea in any case, you could be the first one Noelia on doing one of them Kassandra!!