If you've ever wanted to feature your face in a game
-- and a vintage style crime game at that -- now might just be your
chance. Collaborating with the Wellcome Trust, 4PM Games is set to
launch detective mystery game Criminel, and the Trust is
offering one winner the opportunity to feature inside the game as a 3D
computer-generated character and witness.
This science-inspired game linked to a new exhibition
entitled "Forensics: the Anatomy of Crime", set to open at the
Wellcome Trust in February. Set in twentieth century Paris, players
must don a vintage detective's outlook and rely on early forensic
techniques to solve a series of murder mysteries.
On its Tumblr page, 4PM Games
state that it's splitting the game into a "real" world state, where
they'll be investigating murders; and a "dream" state, where the
player and main character will be connecting up the clues behind
the murders.
In keeping with the spirit of the exhibition, for
Criminel, the developers used photogrammetry, which is the
science of making measurements from photography. The developers
take a series of photographs around an individual's face, and use
them to measure and fabricate a 3D computer generated head.
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"Games are able to bring a whole
new perspective to the subject," says Iain Dodgeon, Creative
Partnerships Manager at the Wellcome Trust. "The Wellcome
Collection forensics exhibition brilliantly explores the gruesome
history of a discipline we are most familiar with through
television."
"Playing Criminel lets you experience a key
part of the it's evolution first hand," he continues.
Commenting that they're adding something different to
app store, founder of 4PM Bojan Brbora said: "we'd like to think
we're going where other developers fear to tread with this
title."
In recent years, games have been increasingly
incorporated into museum spaces as
interactive tools, which encourage public engagement and
interest.
"Sometimes not as many people can get to a site specific
exhibit, but they can be involved in a game," says Wellcome Trust
spokeswoman, Emily Philippou, to WIRED.co.uk. "This game isn't
supposed to be a didactic teaching tool -- it's another way of
playing and exploring [ideas]."
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Feature your face in a forensics-inspired game
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