![]() Sure, there's a house which is also a camera but we wanted to dip into reality. "Lumino City isn't complete magical make-believe. ![]() "We weren't focusing so much on game design, it was more about creating spaces that were interesting and different and would give the user a different way to explore an environment. A personal favourite was Thomas Hillier's The Migration of Mel and Judith which was part of the RA Summer Exhibition in 2010. That might sound odd given architecture tends to be associated with functional bricks and mortar creations – why not an interior designer? But there's a lot of experimental and narrative architecture out there, especially in the realms of final year architecture projects. It's not giving enough credit but it was kind of a proof of concept for this bigger city we always wanted to make," says Bidwell.Įarly on, the team brought in architect Catrina Stewart to collaborate on the designs of the city. "We launched Lume to make sure we were able to sell this game and it was something people wanted – that we could even physically do it. It's the sequel to State of Play's previous game, Lume – a similar but smaller scale endeavour. Lumino City is a point and click puzzle adventure which tells the story of Lumi, a little girl seeking her kidnapped grandad. "So it was a natural thing to try and make games in a different way." "We're not natural 3D programmers," she says. The game isn't out until later in November but Bidwell is guiding me round the exhibition, explaining more about the models on display and the challenges involved in their creation. "With Lume we took that in a suitcase to Tokyo Game Show and people thought it was a marketing prop – nope, it's our game!" "We've had people say 'what engine did you use to get that lighting effect?' and it's like, well, we had a lamp…" laughs Bidwell. Lumino City was created as a sprawling fantastical architectural model in real life before being painstakingly converted into a digital gamespace. If you're not familiar with Lumino City you could be forgiven for thinking all of this card and wiring is entirely a marketing concept, bringing a digital creation into our physical world. Katherine Bidwell, co-director of studio State of Play, is taking me round the GameCity exhibition of their Lumino City game models. "All our games so far have had some element of handmade-ness to them but Lumino City has gone to the nth degree." ![]() Tickets: $19 to $88 there’s a shuttle bus ($5 each way) between East 125th Street and Randall’s Island LuminoCityFestival.These are all photos I took at the exhibition - if you want to see the larger version just click on them. LuminoCity is open weekends and most weekdays from 4 to 11 p.m. You can try your hand at lantern-making, bracelet-weaving and other traditional Chinese crafts in a huge heated tent shop for holiday merch at the market and fuel up with dumplings and fried ice cream.Įxpect to spend at least an hour for the full effect. There’s even a section for cat lovers, with statues inspired by Instagram-famous felines. ![]() There’s a pathway of illuminated discs that change color as you walk along it, and you can ride on a “moonbeam” swing. Chinese lanterns are scattered throughout. LuminoCity is actually three cities in one: Winter Fantasy, which features a 13-foot-tall frozen unicorn and a nearly 30-foot-high twinkling castle Wild Adventure, with animatronic dinosaurs and lush, prehistoric-looking greenery and the sugar-themed Sweet Dream, which boasts a doughnut tunnel Homer Simpson would love. She says that while she found the south Brooklyn display “joyous,” she couldn’t help but recall the annual light festivals she’d grown up with. “During my first holiday season in New York, I went to check out the Dyker Heights lights,” Xiaoyi Chen, the Chinese-born Pratt graduate, tells The Post. And nearly all of it is handmade, by 43 artisans flown in from Zigong City, who spent three months hand-dyeing and gluing the installations. Inspired by its 29-year-old co-founder’s memories of the lantern festivals in her Zigong, China, hometown, this interactive attraction covers nearly 700,000 square feet of Randall’s Island. More than 10,000 LED light bulbs make up the LuminoCity Festival. A few miles north of the holiday madness of Midtown comes a dazzling new light show.
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