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The “Off the Map” Competition

Stella Wisdom, Curator, Digital Research, @miss_wisdom

http://gamecity.org/alices-adventures-off-the-map/

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De Montfort University, Leicester, Game Art department, Rosslyn Chapel

(2012) using the CryEngine

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Off the Map competition for 2013

Three sub themes:

• Stonehenge, including a proposed plan to

rebuild Stonehenge

• Pyramids at Giza

• 17th Century London, including a survey map

made months after the Great Fire of 1666

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David Loggan, Prospect of Stonehenge from the west / south. London, c.

1680. Engraving. Maps K.Top 43.58-a

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Ordnance Survey, Stonehenge: Trilithons (B and C) from the South West

London, 1867. Photograph. 10351.i.2

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J. Malton (after Inigo Jones), Stone-Henge Restored… London, 1796.

Engraving.

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Edward William Lane, ‘Two plans of the vicinity around the Pyramids,’ 1825-8

Add.MS 34088.

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David Roberts, The Great Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza, London, 1837.

Lithograph.

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C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6

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John Leake, An exact surveigh of the streets lanes and churches contained within the

ruines of the City of London, 1667. Maps Crace port 2.58

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2013 winning team: Pudding Lane Productions from De Montfort

University, Leicester who created an interpretation of 17th Century London

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2013 winning team: Pudding Lane Productions from De Montfort

University, Leicester who created an interpretation of 17th Century London

http://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk/

http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)

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Off the Map competition for 2014

Gothic theme, tie-in with the Library's exhibition

Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination

3 October 2014 - 20 January 2015

http://www.bl.uk/events/terror-and-wonder--the-gothic-

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Why now?

• 250th anniversary of The Castle of Otranto

• Other Gothic exhibitions/seasons

• New Library audience

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Gothic beyond the exhibition

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Off the Map 2014 Competition

Three sub themes:

• Fonthill Abbey, home of William Beckford, author of

Vathek

• Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Red Death

• Whitby and its association with Bram Stoker’s novel

Dracula

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Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823

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Image from Delineations of

Fonthill and its Abbey, John

Rutter, 1823

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Harry Clarke illustration for

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story,

The Masque of the Red Death

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View of the coast by Whitby, Francis Jukes, 1804

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Harbours on the East Coast of England. (Whitby Harbour.) [Admiralty Chart], 1895

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Off the Map student teams visit the British Library April 2014

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British Library overview video showing flythroughs of winning

entries (http://youtu.be/NzzQLaltmVA)

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2014 winning team: Gothulus Rift from University of South Wales who

created a Fonthill Abbey inspired game called Nix

Blog: http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk/

YouTube flythrough: http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHw

“Nix is an exploration game set within an alternate Fonthill Abbey which is

built in CryEngine 3, utilising the Oculus Rift for a unique underwater

experience in a warped environment.”

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2nd place: The Flying Buttress Productions from De Montfort University

http://www.theflyingbuttress.co.uk/

http://youtu.be/W134d-0k_2o

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3rd place: Team Shady Agents, also from the University of South Wales

Their game is called “Beneath The Crimson Moon”

http://youtu.be/aIkialb-uCE

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New for 2015

“Alice’s Adventures Off the Map” …

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:British_Library_-

_Off_the_Map_Alice_Collection?uselang=en-gb

Launched 8th December 2014