Archaeologists are detectives: they dig beneath the soil to find items from long ago. At Priory Park they are hoping this will help them find out more about the history of the Priory and what it was like when monks lived here nearly 500 years ago. De Montfort the Dog is leading today’s mission. Are […]
Here’s a sneak preview of our latest characters. With the updates to the complete games engine, there are now going to be “helpers” for each of the games. So time to meet Kestrel, Owl, Squirrel, Hedgehog and Badger. Mole you already know – now he has brought his friends. Kestrel Owl Squirrel Hedgehog Badger Mole
(this is a sample of how your game may be added to the Invisible Buildings site) Game details: Played on a pitch 100 meters by 50 meters – 5000 sq meters. It was played by 4 players over 90 minutes starting at 11:36 Players details, points and times: Alli Billy Coli Dino Time Stakeout 5 […]
Here is a screencast of the first thing that you need to do when running an Invisible Buildings game. It shows how we put the name of the team in, followed by up to 4 players
Meet Andy. Andy has been teaching in a Hertfordshire primary school for around 10 years. He loves tech and gadgets and shares his passion with his students. This can be anything from using Makey Makey to create a banana keyboard to producing stop frame animations as part of the school play. He’s not fazed by the new school computer […]
A question I am always being asked when I talk about Invisible Buildings is “can I play it indoors?” The answer is an emphatic no – our system makes use of GPS which only works outdoors. In fact, one of the virtues of our product is that it does takes place outdoors, at a time when […]
When I first devised Invisible Buildings, the thought was to follow much the same line as Time Team – find some evidence of a building and dig it up! Hence our first project was hunt the Roman Villa. And why not, it fitted in with the, as then, part of Key Stooge 1. With the […]
As readers of this blog will know, the original Invisible Buildings featured 3 games: Metal Detecting, Geophys, and Mole Dig (this was an idea that we seemed to have passed on to these cute little animals: Moles unearth Roman artefact at Epiacum’s ancient fort). There was also a classroom “drag and drop” game where the […]
Invisible Buildings was created for children aged from 7-9 with a grant from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) in conjunction with Brighton University. It was designed as a way of introducing the curriculum subject – The Romans, in a Time Team like way of allowing children to discover and dig up a Roman villa from the comfort of their […]
Here is all the information you need to build a set of equipment to play the game, plus other constructional stuff if you are feeling adventurous.