An online game set at one of Northumberland's best known Roman forts has been launched, in the hope of providing a new educational resource for budding video gamers and archaeologists.
Vindolanda Adventure aims to bring to life real-people from the world-famous Vindolanda tablets, Tagomas and Lepidina, and it is hoped through playing that children will learn more about computer science and the ancient world. Players journey back to Hadrian's Wall at the start of the 2nd century AD and work through a series of mini-games and adventures to discover how our understanding of life on the Roman frontier is still relevant today.
Characters embark on a series of mini-games to get the two "sprites" Tagomas and Lepidina to achieve their quest to attend the birthday party mentioned on the Vindolanda writing tablets, which contains the earliest example of a woman's handwriting in Europe. During the games, players can access the online archives and the aim is to introduce children to career opportunities open to them through studying computer science, history and archaeology.
