Now in its fourth year, Off the Map is a British Library partnership initiative with GameCity, which challenges full time UK students in higher or further education to make videogames, digital explorable environments, or interactive fiction based on digitised British Library collection items.

Last year’s competition was about Alice in Wonderland and you can read about the winning games here.

This year we invite entries inspired by either The Tempest, castles, or forests that have been used as settings in Shakespeare’s plays, as the 2016 Off The Map competition is associated with the British Library’s upcoming Shakespeare exhibition (15 April 2016 to 6 September 2016).

This event is aimed at participating teams and individuals taking part in the Shakespeare Off the Map 2016 competition. It is an opportunity to find out more about the competition and to ask British Library Curators about this year's sub-themes and selected collection items.

If you have any questions about this event, please email digitalresearch@bl.uk

Schedule:

12:30 – Meet at the information desk in the in Entrance Foyer and get taken to Panizzi room

12:40 – Welcome and introduction to the Off the Map competition

12:50 – "Shakespeare in Ten Acts", hear about the British Library's upcoming exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death revealing ten performances that have made Shakespeare the cultural icon he is today

13:00 – The Off the Map themes; Castles, The Tempest, Forests

13:20 – Sounds chosen for Shakespeare Off the Map

13:30 – Half the group go into the boardroom to see objects & ask curators questions, half the group stay in Panizzi room to talk about the rules of the competition

14:00 – The groups swap over

15:00 – All attendees gather in Panizzi room for any final questions, before then being taken back into the public Library area.

Shakespeare Off the Map 2016 Meet the Curators (2nd session)