- Playing the City
- Presentation
- Friday 24 March 2006
2pm | 80 mins
As videogame technology gets increasingly powerful, the dream of being able to interact and 'play' on the streets of a living, breathing virtual city gets ever closer. The ways in which cities and urban environments have been represented in games will be discussed by researcher Colin Harvey (who has contributed to Edge magazine and worked as a game scriptwriter), who will take us through the imaginary streets of GTA: San Andreas, and the 'real' London of The Getaway, among other games, and outline his ideas about memory and space in the new digital reality of game cities.
