gamescape

inter_art
qix / volfied / game-based-architecture / digital subconscious

Gamescape is an extension to the retro-game «l1neum» by «la1n». It is visualizing all playing movements of a player as a 3D-sculpture. While as the movements of one player make up a sculpture, all sculptures of all played games of all players are collected on a server and form an entire city: A city consisting of structures which are created by all the gamers' movements.

This visualization of structures shows an ever-expanding universe of movements – finished and unfinished – and serves as a starting ground for a new game. The different shapes of the buildings can be related to the strategies of the individual players. If the player realizes this, he/she can in fact adapt the strategy in order to determine the shape of the buildings and the city.

Finally the gamescapes can be easyly exported into 3d-software for further use. And the exported gamescapes then can be imported as city-scapes into any geographical location in google earth and alter design and aesthetics of a town, city or landscape.

Youtube - video (for a better movies, look at the beginning of the page > movies)

Gamescape Views

Concept

By playing the different levels of «l1neum», the player creates more and more buildings for the ever growing gamescape-city.

Use Gamescape Data

You can access and use the data via following services:
List of all Gamescapes as simple XML >
Gamescape with all Sculptures and Wall-Coordinates (x1,y1,z1,x2,y2,z2) as simple XML >
or
> download the latest gamescape as 3d-exchange-format-file (dxf) >
> expert mode for downloading dxf-data >




get more picture-exports in a zip-file >


Reenter the Gamescapes to the location you created them. Look for gamescape-data in google earth by searching for "gamescape" in google earth. and enter your own gamescaped world.
find some examples in the google earth 3d warehouse >

google.earth.(zuerich).gamescape





get more pictures of the Zurich project >


more pictures of a location in north america:


rotterdam, dutch electronical festival (deaf) 07 , 2007:

in-between or the re-entry of the play-form

more hires-pictures from rotterdam architecture >

find some examples in the google earth 3d warehouse >