The Hunger Games: The Capitol Tour

written by Houke de Kwant on October 23, 2012

The Hunger Games: The Capitol Tour is an immersive virtual journey that takes place in the capitol city of Panem, the seat of the Hunger Games authoritarian power. In order to bring fans into the city of Panem, Ignition Interactive created an HTML5 extravaganza developed in partnership with Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 bringing to life elements of the Capitol that have never been seen or experienced before. Fans were teased with an initial image of the Capitol skyline in which they could sign up to take part of the tour. Within 1 week of the initial launch, 800,000 fans had signed up in anticipation for the release of the tour. Once the site was released, fans could experience the Welcome Center, the Control Room and The Avenue of the Tributes all while being gracefully guided by a tour host. For me The Hunger Games was one of the best movies I have seen this year so everything related to that can’t be bad, right ;)? Besides the fact that this project was published back in April, I didn’t see it before and am impressed by what they made… Check it out below & let me know what you think of this!

Credits
concept Evan Dehaven, Chad Tafolla, Parker Sapp, Alvin Groen
creative direction Evan Dehaven
art direction Chad Tafolla
production Parker Sapp
design Chad Tafolla, Alvin Groen
motion Alvin Groen
3D Shadedbox
development Codin Pangell, Greg Batha, The Nerdery, Plain Concepts
copywriting Ashley Crandall, Nina Kaufmann
matte painting Todd Reublin
music & sound Bob Partridge
concept sketches Allison Reimold
video keys Eric Dehaven
welcome host Alexandra Mathews
make-up Heather Conlan
special thanks Nick Boes, Wilson Saloj, Andy Burdin, Dru Bramlett, Jacob Janssen

The Hunger Games: The Capitol Tour from Alvin Groen on Vimeo.