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Corporation Pop and Lighthouse develop online educational experience 'Lives at War'

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

September 19, 2011 | 2 min read

An online project which aims to educate secondary school children about life on the Home Front during World War 2 has been developed by Corporation Pop and Lighthouse.

Having received funding from the Digital Film Archive Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund, the two companies have created ‘Lives at War’, which allows schoolchildren to engage with filmed history and review archive WW2 film footage in a 3D virtual environment.

The project is based on a fiction street in Brighton during the 1940’s and aims to draw users into the lives of its characters through a number of activities, guiding their own avatar through the world, allowing them to interact and explore the environment.

The content, build by Corporation Pop, has been built in Maya and also used Unity to develop the environment. Both single and multi-player versions have been created in either a brower or standalone desktop application.

Dom Raban, managing director at Corporation Pop, commented: "We’ve been planning this project with Lighthouse for almost two years now so it’s wonderful to reach the point where we can finally show it off. When we first started scoping the game, browser based 3D worlds were in their infancy but as the project has developed so has the technology. But this process has been about so much more than the technology and one of the most rewarding aspects has been the involvement of the schoolchildren at each stage of the game’s development from researching real life experiences that drive the storyline to the creation of avatars.”

‘Lives at War’ will be launched at the Brighton Digital Festival and can be played online.

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