PLAYABLE PLACES

WHY MAKE PLACES PLAYABLE?

Digital twins are powerful tools for simulation, planning, and infrastructure — but too often, they stay locked in specialist software or hidden behind institutional walls.

What if that same data could come to life as a playable, explorable experience?

Imagine your digital twin as:

• A canvas for innovation

• A playground for education

• A stage for immersive storytelling

• A space where the public can engage — not just the professionals

Playable Places makes this possible.

By adapting digital twins into game-ready environments or fully interactive experiences, we turn them into something people can actually explore, play, and connect with — built in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN).

These experiences can then be published directly inside Fortnite or released as standalone applications on platforms like Steam or the Epic Games Store.

This isn’t just about games — it’s about unlocking new value.

It’s about future-proofing your digital twin by making it more accessible, more engaging, and more relevant to the next generation.

WHAT WE OFFER

Playable Places is a production framework for turning digital twins and digital versions of places into interactive, immersive environments — built-in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN).

We offer two levels of engagement:

Game-Ready Place

We take your digital twin or digital version of a place and make it playable.
Optimised, framed, and ready to build on — perfect for:

• Game jams

• Education

• Innovation labs

• Citizen engagement

Playable Place Game

A finished interactive experience built on top of your place.
From concept to publication, including gameplay design, polish, and support.

Ideal for exhibitions, interactive visualisations, learning, tourism, or local storytelling — playable inside Fortnite or as a standalone Unreal experience.

Let’s talk more over at our Discord community about what your needs are!

OUR LATEST PROJECT

Together with Linköping University and the owner of the digital twin data Norrköping Municipality, and with partial funding from Visual Sweden, we turned a digital twin of Norrköping’s historic industrial landscape into a playable experience inside Fortnite.

This wasn’t about making a finished game — it was a research-based innovation project to explore:

• Whether real-world photogrammetry and geodata can be brought into Fortnite

• How digital twins can be adapted for interaction

• What gameplay mechanics can be layered onto real places

• What process cities can follow to do the same

Watch the full prototype video here:
▶ Playable Places — Gameplay + Prototype
Or take a visual fly-through of the environment:
▶ Game-Ready Norrköping: Fly-Through
Read the full case study:
▶ Blog Post on tomlinstudio.com

WHO IS THIS FOR?

Playable Places is for anyone looking to activate a real-world space — digitally.

Whether you’re working in the public or commercial sector, we help transform your digital twin into something explorable, interactive, and immersive.

This includes:

• ️Municipalities & Regions

• Innovation Labs & Research Centers

• Universities & Schools

• ️Destination Development & Tourism

• ️Arenas, Event Spaces & Conference Halls

• Retail & Shopping Malls

• Real Estate & Property Developers

• Hospitality & Experience Spaces

• ️Urban Planners & Architects

• Studios & Creative Teams

If you have a place — physical or digital — we can help you make it playable.