{"id":14951,"date":"2015-02-09T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/video-games-architecture-drawings\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:53:46","slug":"video-games-architecture-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/inspiration\/industry\/video-games-architecture-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Architecture Drawings and Models to Life through Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Computer-generated graphics have gotten sophisticated beyond our wildest dreams and video games are almost completely realistic at this point. However, a new crop of games takes a different approach, opting instead for an overtly graphic approach. It might have something to do with the fact that we have now all but mastered the technology to create hyper-realistic architecture and environments. As in architecture itself, there is no longer a challenge in verisimilitude \u2014 thus, cartoonish graphic design becomes a more compelling option.<\/p>\n

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Figments. Image via oleomingus.tumblr.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

A recent example is edifying precisely because it is still in process: Screenshots of Figments<\/i> are available on the <\/a>development blog, and it looks promising<\/a>. The imagery depicts colorful, playful buildings that incorporate just a splash of historic styles, such as Victorian and Moorish, to evoke a fantastic world of architecture. They haven’t finished the grass, however, as it is still “its miserable old self.” The game looks like it was created at the RCA<\/a>, or by one of England’s other acronymic finest: AOC<\/a>, MUF<\/a>, or FAT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Figments. Image via oleomingus.tumblr.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

It also has resemblances of Lumino City, a game generated by creating in real life a setting composed entirely of paper, card, wood, miniature lights, and electric motors; art director Catrina Stewart of Office S&M is unsurprisingly a cohort of AOC\/FAT\/RCA\/Peter Cook (Archigram). (The Brits sure know how to name firms, huh?) The architecture is similarly cobbled together from a mixture of styles, both regal and quotidian. Ornate detailing can be seen alongside cor-ten roofing, giving the architecture a nuanced but unfamiliar vibe, to the effect that this game-in-a-model has a particularly tactile quality.<\/p>\n