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Cities of the Imagination

An imaginative and jubilant series of interactive explorable landscapes

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Link to live project on itch.io
A laptop displaying a landscape with smoke coming out of pipes that are in the foreground.
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About This Project

Marco Polo flying on a giant plant in the sky

Cities of the Imagination is a series of interactive explorable landscapes loosely inspired by cities in the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

Each city has different ways of getting around. Players can walk and jump among a forest of pipes in Armilla, fly on a giant flying plant in the sky city Baucis, and slide around a timeless lagoon on a snail in Ibislia. As the player enters each city they are prompted with directions on how to control Marco Polo.

Armilla, a pipe filled landscape
Baucis, a city in the sky
Ibislia, a lagoon of time

Marco Polo, and most of the other moving elements were animated in Spine. I assembled the entire project in unity and coded the interactivity with C#.

You can explore the project below on desktop or visit the live project on itch.io