“They're all really happy to share these stories and photographs with us and help us integrate their stories - once we've proven them true - into this project. The goal? To understand why people made the choices they did that night.Īs part of the project, Lynskey and his team are speaking to relatives of victims and survivors. “You don’t quite know why when you read that story, but when you see it in a 3-D and you see the timeline being played out, you realize there was water down at the other end of the hallway. But moments later, they turn around and run up a flight of stairs. You start to understand more and more about the reasons behind certain things,” he says.įor instance, he says, you might hear a story of someone walking down a hallway while the ship was sinking. “When you’re working in 3-D models, and when you’re working on a real-time timeline, you start to see everything fit together like a puzzle piece. Lynskey says he wants the game to be entertaining and exciting, but he also wants to teach people about what actually happened that night in a more understandable way. The game hasn’t come out yet Lynskey and his team won’t have a firm release date until they get all the funding they need, but they recently released a two-hour-and-41 minute real-time animated video of the ship sinking to drum up support.

You can take anything you want from the Titanic story.” “Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. He discovers that the true perpetrators may be fleeing Europe aboard the Titanic, so he takes chase to try and prove his innocence.īut when the ship hits the iceberg, the game turns into a race against the clock. It’s a fictional story, but Thomas Lynskey, the writer and director of the game, says what actually happened is equally fascinating. The game, called ' Titanic: Honor and Glory,' follows a fictional character named Owen Robert Morgan, a 23-year-old student who finds out that he’s a prime suspect in an investigation for a series of international crimes. It’s hard to imagine what it felt like to be on the RMS Titanic after the ship struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean more than a century ago.īut a new game aims to put you as close as possible.

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