The World Awaits You

Explore the wondrous sights and discover mythical creatures inhabiting this imagined world.

The World Awaits You was an immersive installation commissioned and created for Level Centre, Derby and was open from April-September 2022. An original concept by Ashley James Brown, the piece was created for learning disabled adults and the wider community to provide an interactive exploratory fictional world to explore. Within the gallery, visitors were able to engage with the explorers and discover all of the hidden wonders the world had to offer. Visitors to the experience were able to collect trading cards depicting the explorers and the creatures.

• Engaging, Fascinating and deep. Thank you for an unexpected dip into an alternative reality. It was worth the journey a thousand times over. (Visitor Comment)

In this Explorers Edition, the original gallery piece has been tweaked to provide an explorable landscape to allow audiences to engage with the piece from the comfort of their own home and to especially cater for those who were unable to reach the gallery for a multitude of shielding and accessibility issues during the Summer of 2022. It is an explorable environment filled with things to see and hear; an ambient meditative game experience to relax and enjoy with a generative soundscape that changes each time you play.

Use arrow keys and mouse/trackpad to navigate around the world and discover all of the mythical creatures and the explorers that inhabit the world, alongside a plethora of unusual sights and sounds.

This is a legacy project and as such will receive no further updates at this moment in time.

Thanks to Arts Council England and Derbyshire County Council for their support of Level Centre and enabling this project. https://levelcentre.com/

Ashley James Brown
Ashley is a digital artist, software developer and educator specialising in creative technology.

Ashley works in collaboration with many cultural organisations, businesses and individual artists to realise their creative potential with technology. Ashley has over 13 years experience working professionally with a wide variety of cutting edge and non-traditional software and hardware. He lectures to a variety of age groups across the world in creative coding.

Playful and interactive with a hint of nostalgia, his works involve code, sound and electronics objects that invoke real world empathy and enjoyment.

Within his own practice Ashley explores shared emotive experiences using technology as his medium to create his own digital playgrounds. Involved with mental health organisations and promoting positive social interactions, all his work uses game psychology and game dynamics to immerse audiences and create a sense of ownership and empathy with the experiences.

View more at https://ashleyjamesbrown.com

Screenshots
Please note some photos are from the actual physical exhibition and are not present in the downloadable game world.

Credits
Created in Unity3D using assets from TidalFlask and PolyPerfect
Generative Ambient score composed by Arctic Sunrise (Ashley James Brown) using Ableton Live, Native Instruments Massive X and Kontakt Player + Sample libs.

Tested
OSX 10.13.6 + OSX 10.14
Windows 10 Home

Issues
Does not currently run on M1 / Monterey or Ventura and gives security warnings for Catalina and for Big Sur.