Hajj Trail: Video Games and Historical Education
Review by Anna, Zainab, and Brooke Hajj Trail, created by Dr. Tyler Kynn, is a fantastic educational game because it is entertaining, accessible, and incorporates learning elements into the gameplay. Mainstream audiences are unlikely to read a dense historical narrative; instead, Hajj Trail gamifies the pilgrim experience while still conveying the themes of historical sources. In the Manasik ul-Hajj of Yusuf Rumi, the autobiographical guidebook on which much of the game is based, Rumi’s annotations become increasingly concerned with the scarcity…
