Decolonizing the videogame: "Never Alone," storytelling, and native cultural identity

The 2014 video game "Never Alone" was developed by the Native Alaskan Cook Inlet Tribe Council in partnership with the Educational video game company, E-media. By embracing the digital, the CITC has found a way of sharing and of honoring their oral traditions of storytelling. "Never Alone" not only resists the deterioration of the Native values and traditions but it also takes a stance against the overflowing influences of corporate power in the Digital world. This thesis explores the ways in which a culture that has experienced an extreme form of domination is resisting disappearance through the digital technologies. How does the digital revolution help us rethink issues of identity, representation and dominance? In what ways to the ludological aspects of "Never Alone" and storytelling devices reflect the will of survival of Native cultures while educating users as to the relevance and contemporaneity of the Inupiat's values?