This beautiful video has won second prize in the British Library Alice's Adventures off the Map 2015 competition, which was staged by the British Library in conjunction with GameCity. It's the third year of a contest for full time UK higher or FE students to create games, digital explorable environments, or interactive fiction based on digitised items from the Library's collection.

Since 2015 was a big year for Alice, there are, of course, some fantastic Alice entries. The first prize winner is "The Wondering Lands of Alice," created by Off Our Rockers from De Montfort University. I love it, but somehow Chris Lonsdale's explorable garden won my heart - it is so beautiful and atmospheric. Chris is also at De Montfort University. Third prize went to a group called Hare Trigger, also from - guess where? De Montfort University. A lesson here perhaps for anyone who wants a course which teaches them to develop games....

You can see all the entries on Youtube; just type in the names. And if you would like to read more about this interesting project, just click this link, or this one.