Now this is just plain cool. The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virgina, as created a digital model of Rome as it was in 320 A.D. (Can we still say A.D. or will the PC police crack down on us? Why, when I was a kid, we had our B.C. and A.D. and we liked it! None of this fancy B.C. and B.C.E crap. But I digress.) They call it RomeReborn1.0, and they have a spiffy flash based interface to it.
The immediate thought I had was wouldn't it be cool to use those models in a game? Say, and MMO, set in a future where Rome never fell? Oh wait, that was canceled, although the web site is still live. Huh.
Rome 1.0 is just the first stage. There will be more revisions coming as the group explores other phases of Roman history. I can't wait for the screaming Mongol hordes period myself.
Posted by JP at Tuesday June 12, 2007 - 3:08 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Editorial | © 2007 Gaming Signal