JtR go tourist

The project team are off to London this Friday to meet with some people at the Wellcome Trust to look at their archives of 19thC forensic science materials and consult with some expertise in this area. As a documentary project we are thinking about how to build an engagement in the 'mystery' and the history that is both factually solid and something else than the 'clues and suspects puzzles with hypothetical solutions' that populate 'Ripper media'. The game will shift the focus more toward Mary Kelly (last 'officially accepted' victim of the serial killing spree) and with this shift we hope to offer the users/players another approach to the lives and the times of those affected; no longer only elements providing a chain of clues and pieces in a puzzle; we want to play another kind of game, including with those other media. 

We also decided a look over the Whitechapel area via one of the tours conducted there will be a good idea. This will gives us experience of the 'location-based experience design' that has a history roughly as old as the events themselves and our project wants to include this history of the sensational in its reflections on the JtR phenomenon. We'll also meet a professional 'Ripperologist' along the way.  More on how this went in the next post.