Luxuary behind the Roman Limes (Luxe achter de Limes), Dutch only APP for iOS and Android
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Development Developed in close co-operation with the municipalities of Wijchen and Heumen and the city of Nijmegen: 2016-2018 Team Concept development and producer: Wennekes’ Office for Imagination: - Léon Wennekes Concept development, design and technique: Wij Doen Dingen: - Cyril de Vroom - Klaas Nagel - Twan van Lierop Project leader client - Rob Ribbink: Municipality of Wijchen and Heumen Project team client - Katja Zee, Archaeologist, Nijmegen - René Joosten, Archaeologist, Heumen - Ester van der Linden, Archaeologist, Wijchen
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Luxuary behind the Roman Limes (Luxe achter de Limes), Dutch only APP for iOS and Android
The invisible Roman past visualized with a unique APP
Nijmegen: the oldest town in The Netherlands and its close villages south of the town were once the most civilized area of the Roman empire in the Netherlands. The town (Noviomagus), a huge army place (XX-legion), thriving villages and huge estates were common in the area. Unfortunately, there is virtually nothing left of this rich heritage.
Here’s where this APP comes in.
It’s a biking tour in three stages. Every stage has its own topics and with GPS this APP brings the following content to the target group of families:
- Cycle to your own (virtual) archaeological treasures on specific GPS locations and literally excavate them out of the (virtual) ground.
- See how these treasures morph into the artefacts they once were (a piece of iron changes into a genuine ‘roman sword)
- Create your own ‘virtual museum’ with these artifacts during the trip and collect all the items that are hidden in the ground.
- On all locations, extra information ‘nice to know for children’ about the Roman civilization is given.
- On 5 specific locations, you can literally look around in 360” 2000 years back in time: 3D Roman buildings appear on the place they once stood, giving the user a vivid look into the past.
- ‘Last but not least’, you can play an attractive quiz, to test your knowledge of the Roman past. Based on the outcome they earn a virtual gold, silver or bronze sesterius.
Background of a remarkable production:
The question: How can we render the Roman past visible, attractive and interesting even when there is literally nothing left to see on the surface anymore?
Especially nowadays when young people don’t read anymore and are ‘spoilt’ with multimedia, smartphones and technologically, visually perfect games?
The solution: a fascinating APP that brings you into the countrysite by bike and to GPS locations with hidden archeological treasures you have to excavate. You collect those treasures and build and fill your own museum with them. On every location attractive information is given about all circumstances of every days life 2000 year ago. The bike tour consists of 3 parts that can be cycled separately or at once. Every part has a main topic:
- Tour 1: Nijmegen to Malden, 11 KM, topic: The equipment of the soldier
- Tour 2: Malden to Wijchen, 12 KM, topic: Treasures of country houses and countrysite
- Tour 3: Wijchen to Nijmegen, 16 KM: topic: Luxuary items from the merchant
At the end, you are able to play the quiz and win a gold, zilver or bronze sesterius to enhance your museum. The first 100 ‘golden’ sesterius owners will be awarded with a genuine Roman scarf.
Two companies: Wennekes’ Office for Imagination and Wij Doen Dingen worked for two years together in close co-operation with archaeologists from the municipalities of Wijchen and Heumen and the city of Nijmegen.
In this close and intense co-operation, they developed this APP, by combining the in-depth knowledge of the archaeologists with the creativity and the knowledge of the creative team. All made possible by the technical possibilities of modern multimedia.
The result: a highly attractive APP that resulted in enthusiast reactions by the (young) targetgroup at the first release 2th half of 2017.
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