Can Games Help Revive an Indigenous Language?

Métis developer Josh Nilson shares how his team used Roblox to create a culturally meaningful game that teaches Northern Michif, a language with fewer than 200 speakers. Learn how games can be a powerful tool for language revitalization, cultural connection, and community engagement. This talk explores co-creation with Metis communities, ethical game design, and why inclusive, accessible games can help preserve identity and bring players—Indigenous and non-Indigenous—into shared spaces of learning and play. Plus the game is very fun.