BBC To Create a Nation of Digital Makers with Doctor Who’s Help

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The BBC is launching a new website that will enable people to make digital content based on some of its most popular shows, and Doctor Who will be one of the key elements with a dedicated games maker set to launch.

Coming on the back of the new Make it Digital season, the mixital site sees the corporation “handing over creativity tools and BBC assets to the audience, and they can make their own BBC” according to head of digital creativity Martin Wilson.

At the moment Doctor Who content on the site is the already available Mission Dalek create-a-clip competition (the trailer for which has created something of a stir, what with Warrior’s Gate making an unexpected appearance) but as the Independent says:

“A Doctor Who Game Maker, which goes live next week, offers the chance to create game adventures for the Timelord and various heroes and monsters from the BBC’s epic saga.”

The project is the latest part of the BBC’s strategy to play its part in harnessing digital creativity in the UK, with the number of tech specialists in the country set to grow fourfold in the next decade.

And whilst Doctor Who fans will be looking forward to making their own games, viewers of other BBC hit programmes won’t be left out. So we’re also getting an Eastenders ‘soap factory’ (complete with digital Queen Vic pub) and a dance routine generator to create routines for Strictly Come Dancing ‘robots’ (insert gag about inept contestant of your choice here…).

Announcing the initiative BBC Director General Lord Hall promised an “open BBC, working closely with others to achieve something far greater than we could on our own: to inspire the nation to get coding and get digital.”

Programming in the Make it Digital season includes The Gamechangers, a one-off drama starring Daniel Radcliffe as the creator of Grand Theft Auto and an edition of Horizon which poses the question Are Video Games Really That Bad?

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