Big Idea: A competition to encourage videogame design students to go 'Off the Map'

Stella Wisdom discusses the 'Off the Map' competition: a unique
collaboration the British Library has with videogame company
Crytek and GameCity festival based in Nottingham. Off the Map
challenges students in higher education to build exciting,
explorable, virtual environments using assets chosen by curators
at the British Library and the power of Crytek's CRYENGINE
software. The 2013 competition winners were De Montfort
University's Pudding Lane Productions team with their stunning
realisation of 17th century London.


Stella Wisdom is a curator in the Digital Research team at the
British Library, exploring and promoting new methods of digital
scholarship using both born digital content and digitised
collections.