"Escape from the Tower"; the iPhone game will  be live on the App Store from 18 December in time for the Christmas holidays. You can see a trailer (produced by studio resident Benji Croce) at the bottom of this page. It is the culmination of the first of our pilot projects planned over the coming year. The project was managed by  HRP in partnership with Calvium. To develop the game a new script has been written, actors have recorded the prisoner's voices,  and the game has been produced and tested.

Over the October school holidays invited family groups tested the game and the developers at Calvium and Historic Royal Palaces are very happy with the result and the collaboration, as voiced by Jo Reid, who is the creative director at Calvium: "Working with HRP as part of the small creative team who made the Prisoners game has been a real pleasure. Using the Calvium platform has enabled us to rapidly prototype, test and develop the game at a fast pace without compromising functionality or features. I am excited to see how the game will be received by the players and hope this is the start of many more history based location-aware games." . All the partners went to The Tower of London to try out the PIRL as part of the quarterly review meeting and everyone very much enjoyed themselves.

 

(video shot & edited by Benji Croce)
 
 

More information can be found on the Calvium blog and in this Evening Standard article