Tipi Kaga

The Making Of Tipi Kaga

 Northern Plains Games was founded by Carl Petersen in 2018, Carl is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and descended from the Oohe Numpa band of Lakota. A Game Designer, Programmer, Writer, and Lakota Translator he created the prototype for Tipi Builder as a project for a programming class at Dakota State University in 2017 since then the game has won several awards.

• Billy Mills Running Strong for American Indian Youth Dream Starter Grant - $10,000
• Four Bands Community Fund Youth Grant  
• All Fools Game Fair best Indie Game Commendation
• Official Selection - ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival

Tipi Kaga or in English Tipi Builder is a game about constructing a Lakota Tipi all of the dialogue is in the Lakota language with the hope that the game and its successors will become an integral part of the revitalization of the Lakota language that today has less than three thousand Fluent Speakers. 

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