This article examines how digital games on Sami culture can draw attention to Indigenous issues when produced in collaboration with Sami community members. Through a case study that probes the design, game mechanics, and user experience of Gufihtara eallu (2018), this article frames Indigenous digital games and game development as a form of digital storytelling that is able to educate players on Indigenous knowledge systems and intangble cultural heritage. By looking at the way Gufihtara eallu engages Sami oral traditions in particular, this article demonstrates how digital games are capable of embodying Indigenous methodologies in such a way as to not flatten understandings of Indigenous traditions to a mythologized historical moment; instead, games produced by and for Indigenous people are capable of presenting storytelling traditions as contemporary, interactive, and constantly evolving, incorporating traditional themes as much as contemporary issues that are being perpetually redefined by modern Sami experience and new technologies.

本文探讨了与萨米社区成员合作制作的关于萨米文化的数字游戏如何引起对土著问题的关注。通过探讨Gufihtara eallu (2018)的设计、游戏机制和用户体验的案例研究，本文将土著数字游戏和游戏开发框架为一种数字叙事形式，能够教育玩家了解土著知识系统和无形文化遗产。通过观察Gufihtara eallu的方式特别涉及萨米人的口头传统，本文展示了数字游戏如何能够体现土著方法论，而不会将土著传统的理解扁平化为神话化的历史时刻；相反，由原住民制作并为原住民制作的游戏能够将讲故事的传统呈现为当代的、互动的和不断发展的，将传统主题与现代萨米人体验和新技术不断重新定义的当代问题结合起来。