Type: Virtual Reality
Theme: Geomorphology and Flooding
Creator: Chris Skinner and BetaJester
Flash Flood! was designed to act as an outreach tool for the NERC-FFIR project, and was funded by the project’s Public Engagement fund. It is a virtual reality experience designed specifically for schools and events, allowing anyone without virtual reality training or experience to take part and explore the valley.
The application places a user inside a virtual river valley as it experiences a catastrophic flash flood. The flood causes massive changes to the geomorphology of the river through processes of erosion and deposition, changing the shape of the river, stripping out plants and trees, and even moving boulders. This is all based on a real event that happened in 2007 on a small river in the uplands of the North of England.
Games for Geoscience 
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