Games and Interactive Fiction at the British Library by Stella Wisdom
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Presentation for the Living Knowledge Network Skills Sharing Day at Leeds Central Library on 9th November 2017
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Games and Interactive Fiction at the British Library by Stella Wisdom
- 1. Games and Interactive Fiction at the British Library Talk for Living Knowledge Network 9th November 2017 Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator @miss_wisdom Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
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- 4. www.bl.uk 4 The Off the Map Competition • A new type of collaboration • Explores how British Library digital collections can be used in creative ways • Engagement with new audiences • Opportunity for students in the UK to showcase their talents to industry
- 5. www.bl.uk 5 C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6
- 6. www.bl.uk 6 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
- 7. www.bl.uk 7 2013 winning team: Pudding Lane Productions from De Montfort University, Leicester Created an interpretation of 17th Century London http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)
- 8. www.bl.uk 8 Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823
- 9. www.bl.uk 9 Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823
- 10. www.bl.uk 10 2014 winning team: Gothulus Rift, University of South Wales Created a Fonthill Abbey inspired game called Nix using Oculus Rift YouTube flythrough: http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHw
- 11. www.bl.uk 11
- 12. www.bl.uk 12 The original handwritten manuscript of the story, ‘Alice’s Adventures Under Ground’, which was first told to Alice Liddell by Lewis Carroll in 1862.
- 13. www.bl.uk 13 2015 Winning Game: “The Wondering Lands of Alice” Team Off our Rockers, De Montfort University in Leicester YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/7bwx4uUnbV4
- 14. www.bl.uk 14 The Tempest Shakespeare was inspired to write The Tempest when he read of the fate of the Sea-Adventure, a ship taking English colonists to North America which was wrecked off the coast of Bermuda in 1609. The Bermudas were then the most feared place on earth for sea travellers, who had heard stories about the islands being inhabited by devils. Map of Bermuda as published in Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius' world atlas of 1633. Maps K.Top 123
- 15. www.bl.uk 15 Off the Map 2016 1st Place: “The Tempest” by Team Quattro, De Montfort University, Leicester YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/0lzpEFgpk3Y
- 16. www.bl.uk 16 Off the Map 2016 2nd Place: ‘Midsummer’ by Tom Battey, London College of Communication Blog: http://tombattey.com/design/developing-interactive-dialogue-in- midsummer/ YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/sz-IKvp62NI Download the game: http://tombattey.com/portfolio-items/midsummer/
- 17. www.bl.uk 17 Off the Map 2016 3rd Place: ‘This Most Desolate Isle’ by Alan Stewart Brunel University
- 18. www.bl.uk 18 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Interactive Writer-in-Residence 2014/15
- 19. www.bl.uk 19 http://bonfiredog.co.uk/bonfog/2014/10/06/blackcrownend/ https://www.thebookseller.com/news/prhs-black-crown-project-go-offline Rob Sherman - Black Crown Project
- 20. www.bl.uk 20 Rob Sherman - Black Crown Project “Black Crown represents Random House’s ambition to push the boundaries in online storytelling, experiment with new business models and launch a new author in a groundbreaking way,” Dan Franklin, Digital Publisher
- 22. www.bl.uk 22 Lines in the Ice - Seeking the Northwest Passage British Library Free Exhibition November 2014 to April 2015
- 23. www.bl.uk 23 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Sir John Franklin Lady Franklin
- 24. www.bl.uk 24 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back HMS Terror and HMS Erebus were lost on the ill-fated Franklin expedition in search of the Northwest Passage in 1845
- 25. www.bl.uk 25 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Isaak Scinbank, the ‘Arctic Angler’ of Milldale http://onmywifesback.tumblr.com/post/100107314408/scinbank
- 26. www.bl.uk 26 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2014/11/the-salmon- book-conservation-in-reverse-.html
- 27. www.bl.uk 27 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back The Digital Cairn
- 28. www.bl.uk 28 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Events & Music https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/sets/songs-from-on-my-wifes-back
- 29. www.bl.uk 29 http://handeyesociety.com/wordplay/ WordPlay is a free festival celebrating the most interesting uses of writing and words in contemporary games. Each year there is a curated game showcase, talks by creators, and ways for the public to learn about making games. The next WordPlay will be on November 18 2017 at the Toronto Reference Library!
- 30. www.bl.uk 30 http://handeyesociety.com/event/wordplay-london-photo-video-recap/ WordPlay 2016 was held on the 19th of November at the British Library in London as part of International Games Day @ your Library.
- 31. The Infinite Library InteractiveFictionSummer School 17– 21July2017 www.bl.uk/courses http://blogs.bl.uk/english-and-drama/2017/07/first-steps-into-interactive-fiction-.html
- 32. www.bl.uk 32 Odyssey Jam, https://itch.io/jam/odysseyjam, #odysseyjam This jam was organised to tie in with the Read Watch Play online reading group, which had a watery theme in March 2017.
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- 36. www.bl.uk 36 Creating a Chronotopic Ground for the Mapping of Literary Texts: Innovative Data Visualisation and Spatial Interpretation in the Digital Medium http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=AH%2FP00895X%2F1 http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/articles/2017/mapping-project-will-open-up-new- routes-to-uncharted-territory/ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/professor-sally-bushell/literary-mapping-in- digit_b_17319788.html
- 37. www.bl.uk 37
- 38. www.bl.uk 38 https://thelakescraftproject.wordpress.com/ Lakescraft is an AHRC funded project that uses the Minecraft platform to engage schoolchildren with the literary and cultural landscape of the Lake District. Using data from the Corpus of Lake District writing at Lancaster University, to create an interdisciplinary educational resource that enables pupils to undertake activities in an accurately modelled digital 3D environment.
- 39. www.bl.uk 39 29th October to 4th November 2017 http://games.ala.org/international-games-week http://games.ala.org/gaming-at-the-british-library
- 42. www.bl.uk 42 Game Library Camp 2017 https://artefacto.org.uk/game-library-camp-2017
- 44. www.bl.uk 44 Web: http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/ Email: digitalresearch@bl.uk Twitter: : @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital