Computer Games for Interacting with a Rural Landscape

Computer games and, increasingly, mobile games, are becoming useful viewers of three-dimensional landscapes. A recognisable landscape can be made in computer games with some (but not a great deal of) expertise using the game editor. Modelling buildings, creatures, vegetation and people takes considerable time, skill and money but certain editable computer games and their editing community provide many models and scripts, which provide control functions at no cost. Editing games is termed ‘modding’. The scenes created in the games can be recorded as a movie, used in presentations or delivered in other applications, such as mobile games using mobile phones.

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