Скачать или смотреть Off the Map project: Creating interactive environments

A collaboration between Nottingham's GameCity festival and the British Library will task game design students with turning historical maps into 3D worlds you can explore.

Using CryEngine 3, the cutting edge graphics tech behind upcoming first-person shooter Crysis 3, contestants will rebuild and reimagine plans of the Tower of London, Stonehenge and the pyramids into interactive game spaces.

Entries will be shown around the world at various game and culture festivals throughout 2013, with the competition winners officially unveiled at GameCity 8 in October. Speaking at the project's official launch, GameCity director Iain Simons told IBTimes UK that this was a great opportunity for students to showcase their creative process:


Written and presented by Edward Smith