Taking library collections Off The Map

Abstract

• The ‘Off the Map’ competition is an unusual collaboration between the British Library and GameCity; a videogame culture festival, which takes place annually in the UK city of Nottingham. The competition challenges higher education students based in the UK to create videogames, explorable virtual environments and interactive fiction inspired by the British Library’s digital collections. The Off the Map competition is one of the library’s experimental projects investigating how the institution can collaborate with digital creative practitioners.