Rank and Play ID: RNP-IGDB-162625

Huni Kuin: Yube Baitana

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Release

Apr 1, 2016

Genres

Platform, Puzzle

Overview

This game was developed together with the Huni Kuin (Kaxinawá) Indians from the Jordan River, in the Amazon, Acre, Brazil, in order to address the culture of the Kaxinawá indigenous people (or Huni Kuin, as they call themselves). It enables an experience of exchanging indigenous knowledge and memories through the language of video games.

Storyline

A couple of Kaxinawá twins were conceived by anaconda Yube in dreams and inherited his special powers. A young hunter and a small artisan, throughout the game, go through a series of challenges to become, respectively, a healer (Mukaya) and a master of drawings (kene). In this journey, they will gain skills and knowledge of their ancestors, the animals, plants and spirits; enter into communication with the visible and invisible beings of the forest (yuxin), to become, finally, real human beings (Huni Kuin). This game was devopeled with the aim of addressing the culture of the Kaxinawa People (or Huni Kuin as they call themselves) in order to…