The Latinx Pacific Archive: Developing a Video Game about Latinx Migration to Hawaii

The aim of this project is to design a video game that shares the stories of Latinx migration to the Hawaiian Islands from the perspectives of migrants themselves. The video game will include interactive documents that will be publicly available through the Latinx Pacific Archive's (LPA) website. The LPA’s collection includes archival documents, music, art, photographs, and oral histories that tell the story of how and why Latinxs are moving beyond the western hemisphere and crossing the aquatic borderlands of the Pacific to find greater opportunities and create new diasporic communities.

The project documents the Latinx population and their stories as cultural records of how far migrants are willing to go in order to improve their social and economic well-being, find each other in the diaspora, and forge their identities and communities in their newly adopted homes. As the largest repository of archival documents and oral histories of the Latinx experience in the Pacific Region, the Latinx Pacific Archive makes these stories accessible to a general audience through a variety of mediums, including textual, audio, and visual materials.