Blending heritage and play through immersive creative exploration
Client: Carclew
Audience: Children and young people aged 9–15
Location: Carclew House, North Adelaide
Delivery: Gamified Carclew House 360 VR application and in-person workshops
Program Duration: School holiday program, select dates across 2025
Overview
Carclew VR: Tower Quest transformed one of Adelaide’s most iconic heritage buildings into a vibrant virtual playground. Designed for young people aged 9 to 15, this hands-on school holiday program invited participants to become designers, 3D modellers, and digital adventurers.
Across multiple sessions held at Carclew House, participants created original characters using traditional drawing techniques, learned how to model them in 3D, and then saw their own creations come to life inside a custom-built virtual reality game. Set within a 3D recreation of Carclew House, the Tower Quest experience encouraged exploration, puzzle-solving, and playful interaction with their own characters and others’.
Key Outcomes
- Empowered young people to design, model, and experience their own 3D characters for VR
- Delivered creative tech education in a fun, low-pressure environment
- Built artistic, digital literacy, and storytelling skills through cross-medium design
- Strengthened engagement with local arts and heritage spaces
- Demonstrated how traditional art practices can translate into immersive media
Workshop Features
- Step-by-step character design sessions using pencil and paper
- Introduction to 3D modelling for games and VR
- Integration of participant-created characters into a gamified VR experience
- Fully explorable recreation of Carclew House, including puzzles and coin collection
- Guided play sessions inside the VR world using industry-level headsets
Our Role
Reality Bytes Media led the design, development, and facilitation of Carclew VR: Tower Quest, including:
- Creating a virtual replica of the Carclew House using 360 capture technology
- Building the interactive VR environment and core gameplay elements
- Teaching foundational character design and 3D modelling techniques
- Supporting participants throughout both creative and technical stages
- Managing VR hardware, setup, and in-session facilitation
- Working in close collaboration with Carclew to ensure creative and educational impact
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