Videogame Atlas

As featured on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, this book offers a dazzling look at modern videogame worlds through an architectural lens, utilizing maps, diagrams, and graphic illustrations to provide new perspectives on the art of virtual world building. Videogame Atlas presents a journey through twelve well-known videogame worlds via panoramic maps, intricate exploded diagrams, and detailed illustrations. The book offers a playful new way of seeing these beloved virtual worlds, employing the practices and academic rigor that underpin real-world architectural theory. Titles such as Minecraft, Assassin's Creed Unity, and Final Fantasy VII are explored in exhaustive detail through over 200 detailed illustrations of the micro and macro, each accompanied by supporting commentary and architectural theory. Influenced by high-end architectural monographs, the book is carefully designed down to the smallest details, and its production is intricately executed. Printed in five colors with neon ink throughout, this book is a culmination of Luke and Sandra's work, which includes founding the Videogame Urbanism studio at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, promoting the use of game technologies in architectural education.