New video game adventure to introduce players to Mi’kmaw language and culture

Video game enthusiasts and Mi’kmaw language lovers have a reason to celebrate.

Green Robot Studios, based in Sydney, N.S., is set to release a PC video game at the end of 2024 highlighting Mi’kmaw language and culture.

The title of Kun’tewiktuk – A Mi’kmaw Adventure is derived from the Mi’kmaw word meaning “place of the rock.”

It takes players thousands of years in the past to follow the journey of siblings Wasuek (meaning “flower”) and U’n (meaning “fog”), who are mysteriously separated. Players guide Wasuek on her quest to reunite with her brother, while adventuring through a Cape Breton landscape and defeating characters inspired by Mi’kmaw folklore. 

The game’s creator, Shawn Green of Green Robot Studios in Sydney N.S., is non-Indigenous but makes educational games that share history from Cape Breton.

He said the pandemic and its change to his work was a catalyst to creating this project. Green Robot Studios originally designed educational games for use in …