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Go in search of the lost colors in old mines!

In a future where everything is gray, a misguided AI controls all resources. She also tracks down colors and prevents people from using them. As a result, no one can express creativity through painting anymore, and people's souls become as desolate as their surroundings. But activist:in Jo has heard rumors about an abandoned archaeological archive that appears to contain valuable information. Jo travels to the place and discovers something unbelievable: four ancient laboratories that offer clues to the origins of the colors.

With your help, a race against time begins to find the raw materials and bring the colors back to the world. Can you do it before the AI ​​finds out and stops you? During your adventure you will get to know different archaeological methods as well as old mining techniques in augmented reality and at the end you can use the recovered colors to make your world a little more colourful.

The game can be played in the "Mining. Stone Age with a Future" tour of the German Mining Museum in Bochum and was created as part of the "Blackbox Archaeology" joint project. In the project, the three network partners - the LWL Museum for Archeology and Culture Herne, the LWL Roman Museum Haltern and the German Mining Museum Bochum - Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources - open participatory and digitally closed rooms of archaeological work. The design studio NEEEU Spaces GmbH Berlin supports the associated museums as a digital partner. Funded in the Kultur Digital program of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Funding period: Jan 2020 – Dec 2023