Playable Places
INTERACTIVE DIGITAL TWIN FRAMEWORK
Case
Real-world places and digital twins transformed into interactive, playable environments using game engine technology.
Date
Ongoing concept and production framework.
First public prototypes released 2025.
tools & techniques
Unreal Engine, Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), photogrammetry, geospatial data, real-time rendering, interactive systems design
Project Overview
PLAYABLE PLACES
Playable Places is an innovation-led concept and production framework developed by TOMLIN STUDIO, exploring how digital twins can become more than static simulations.
Digital twins are increasingly used for planning, analysis and infrastructure, but they are often locked inside specialist tools and inaccessible to wider audiences. Playable Places repositions these assets as interactive, explorable and engaging experiences, built using real-time game engines.
By adapting photorealistic digital twins into game-ready or fully interactive environments, real places can be explored, played and understood by non-experts. These experiences are built in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), and can be published directly inside Fortnite or released as standalone applications on platforms such as Steam or the Epic Games Store.
Rather than treating games as entertainment only, Playable Places uses playability as an interface, a way to unlock new value, accessibility and relevance from existing spatial data.
Visual Highlights
Project VIDEO Showcase
products and services
Next-GEN Audiovisual Solutions
Generative AI Media Production
Harnessing generative AI and structured production pipelines to create scalable audiovisual content.
From AI-generated images and video to custom workflows built with ComfyUI and our GENERAITR pipeline system, we help teams move from experimentation to production-ready AI media workflows.
Real-Time Environments & Experiences
Using Unreal Engine and real-time technology, we create interactive environments, digital twins and immersive visual experiences that help organisations visualise ideas, spaces and systems.
Interactive & Playable Media
Designing interactive and gamified experiences such as playable environments, digital twins and music-driven worlds. Built using platforms like UEFN (Fortnite) and other interactive media systems, these experiences enable new ways to engage audiences.
Let's Collaborate
We collaborate with organisations that want to explore generative AI media production, real-time visualisation or interactive experiences.
Whether you are looking to scale audiovisual production with AI, visualise complex ideas or create immersive digital environments, we would love to explore what we can build together.