The Burnt City is an interactive theatre experience by a theatre company called Punchdrunk. They specialise in immersive experiences. Usually involving theatre sets that span multiple buildings/floors/rooms so, finding your way around these spaces can be an interesting exercise.
If you haven't already seen TBC, I'd advise you to go in cold. Avoid spoilers. Throw yourself into the pool and see if you can swim. Once you've done that, have a look at a map, refresh your memory about places you've seen. Find the places you didn't see the first time around and make plans for your next visit.
This is a 'slippy' map implimentation of Eleanor Odell's Burnt City map, crossed with more recent data from the "Architect's Dream" map.
You can scroll, zoom, add map layers, tap map markers to get more detail.
For accessibility there's a certain zoom layer which, when activated, will increase the font size up more than a few notches.
The map markers are actually read in from a Google sheet which means a couple of things.
- You can share edit rights of those sheets with other people to crowd source better data
- You can just add another Google Sheet and make another layer super easily.
You can look at my version on my website here.
You might want to add your own map layers, or crowdsource your own map points of interest with friends or your own community. Or you might want to use the code included here for something else completely. Entirely up to you.
No, there are some 3rd party tools that you'll need to download yourself. Hopefully my instructions will be enough to get you up and running. Check out the install.md for install instructions.
This would not have been possible without the work of Eleanor Odell, The 'Architect', the Discord posse and help and encouragement from the Facebook 'contains speculation' group.