Island of Winds at Reykjavik Culture night

On Reykjavík Cultural night, we at Parity games, showcased our game and our design process at the National museum of Iceland (Þjóðminjasafnið). The exhibition was a great success, a lot of people came and tried out Island of Winds. We are honored to be in this collaboration. It enables us to get access to 3D scanned artefacts from the museum that we use in our game.

One of these artefacts is the “álfapottur” or the “Elfpot in English. The name originates from a 19th century folklore story that claims this pot originally comes from elves.
The story takes place on a New Years Eve in the Westfjords of Iceland. A local man was standing outside at midnight as he saw people walking by in the distance. Intrigued, he went over to see and was surprised to find a small child following them. As he approached, the child that called for it´s mother, threw something on the ground and disappeared. The man went to pick up what he saw was a pot and realized that he had just seen elves. He decided to keep the pot preciously, it passed down in the family, sometimes being used to cure illness, before ending up in the National museum. And now at last it will be found in a computer game.