Introduction
This is a high level map building competition for Minecraft maps.
By summer 2022, we plan to open a server named the Valley of Saga which depicts places for the storytelling of fair tales and folk tales from our common European heritage; including nordic, germanic, slavic origins and many minority cultures from all over Europe.
Schedule
The challenge starts on April 1st and ends on September 4th of 2022.
Background
Originally, this project was planned to be called the Afanasyev Cycle, and focused on the shared and overlapping narratives of Russian and German fairy tales.
The high risk of loosing large part of the Ukranian cultural and natural heritage due to the ongoing conflicts we have decided to start by focusing uniquely on the Ukranian heritage, and especially locations, present in the Ukraine.
Further, we have opened the the conceptual approach to indigenouse Russian narratives, such as the Mari-El.
Scope
In order to delimit the scope fo this project, it is limited by the following criteria:
- European continent: Area of heritages' location must be on the European continent (delineated in the East by the Ural, in the South by the Ural river, the Caspian sea, the Caucasus mountains, the Black sea, the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles concluding the Asian boundary and thet Mediterranean Sea seperating from Africa. The western boundary is the Atlantic Ocean, which accounts for 50 countries.
- Germanic origin: These areas (countries) are further limited to a regions narratives relation to a common Proto-Germanic and Germanic mythology going back to as anaylsed by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Alexander Afanasyev.
- Natural heritage: Thus, landscape maps are generally belonging to Northern, Central and Eastern Europea, including Western Russia. Major interest in landscapes lies in the representation of natural heritage such as the Carpathian Mountains and birch forests.
- Fairy tale: The type of the narratives we are interested in here are fairy tales as a subgenre of folk tales. All other types of folklore such as legends, myths, fables, etc. are explicitly excluded.
- Architectonic heritage: Buildings are limited to historical buildings, reproducing, representing or inspired in actual cultural heritage and historical places.
Participate
- Select an object you are interest in building and inscribe in the competition.
- Suggest an object, if you don't find it here (until further advices, it must be from Ukraine).
- Contact us, if you have doubts or need help via the Planetminecraft platform.
- Upload your work to Planetminecraft before September 4th at 24:00 h (Bruxelles time).
