I am new here. Wanted to share something essential to my memory journeys.
There are quite a few posts about creating journeys around your house, memorizing a trip to the grocery store, or browsing google earth etc.
These are great, and I have a few of them stored away. But, what I needed was a way to quickly make a new memory journeys that would be different from other journeys, layered with memorable loci, and include 100 stages. More importantly, I wanted the stages to move in and out of buildings, and follow a specific path, and I wanted to be able to see in 1st person as well as 3rd person…immediately.
So, I searched, researched, and decided to purchase “The Movies” Mac/PC game. Here’s why:
I can build movie sets with the click of a button. I can walk through the sets in first person, and zoom out to third person as I need to. I can make each loci as wild as I need to and tailor the journey to my liking.
It’s worked well for me, and it might work well for you too.
Is this the game? It looks like it’s only $8, so I might check it out. I’m looking for examples of 3D computer games that are good for creating memory palaces.
Has anyone ever made software specifically for memory palaces? I realized the other day that I can probably run through the first few levels of the original Doom in my head despite having not played it in 10+ years!
My only concern about using a video game is that I’ll end up trying to defeat cacodemons instead of memorizing things.
Videos walkthrough might be a suitable idea for helping to get better memories of our video games without losing too much time. I found this website , it seems to be appropriate for this purpose. It’s awesome that these endless hours spent on video games might become usefull for memorising things
I downloaded a few games to see if there were any good ones for making memory palaces. I found a copy of Portal 2 for five dollars on Steam, but didn’t find it very inspiring. I’m thinking about getting a copy of The Movies, but I want to make sure that I get the right version.
I’m not really interested in wandering around solving puzzles or fighting things – I just want to experiment with finding more loci.
It looks like Portal 2 has community maps and maybe a world builder, but I haven’t figured it out yet.
So I had this idea, and I’m not sure if it’s horrible. But the idea is a piece of software where you could choose a number of points to correspond with your loci . You could then attach words or images to those loci. It would generate a 3d environment with a definite beginning, middle, and end. Your loci would be inserted into a 3d environment. It would have a large catalog of textures, objects, etc. that it would automatically insert at random along with regular twists and turns. Then you just wander it and have fun with your generated memory palaces.
For those of you who have played Castlevania, these maps could definitely be used as gigantic memory palaces. I’ve downloaded the Symphony of The Night map; it’s so massive that I cannot attach it here.
I’m also a diehard Earthbound fan (SNES RPG released in 1994). Here’s a colossal map I intend to use. Unfortunately, it’s only a composite of all EB maps, i.e., the maps are placed randomly within the image, and have no spatial correlation to one another.
OMG.
Online games maps was what I needed. Why the hell I didn’t look for it this before ?
I found my happiness on this website http://www.vgmaps.com.
I am currently doing a massive DownThemAll (usefull firefox plugin to download many files in a row ) targeting side views of the best game of all times : Ocarina Of Time. With this I won’t need extra virtuals locis for a while
As a Zelda Fan, I also found the side view of the map of link’s awakening http://portfolio16.de/zelda/map4/map_en.htm.
It’s a 16*16 grid, maybe there is some way to take advantage of this.
Is anyone using these virtual maps yet? I’m wondering if using a screen might not be activating spatial memory the way that an actual, physical space you’ve walked around does. Trying to imagine a 3D world might not be nearly as powerful, or at least take a lot more mental energy. Thoughts?
I’m using the videogame sidescrolling 2D maps to memorize poetry; works like a charm. As for virtual 3D world building with a program, I haven’t tried it yet.
Hi! I’m very curious about it:
which videogame are you using?
and most important, do you place on the various levels scenes describing the successive stanzas, or do you enter into the detail of having objects/actions/etc for each word of the poem? Personally I find the second method almost impossible and mostly useless, but I’m very interested in comparing methods.
I’m using the entire castle map from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, for all of my French Gothic, Romantic and Symbolism poets/poems (Baudelaire, Nerval, Hugo, Nelligan, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Gauthier etc). I find that the Gothic setting and decoration of the castle perfectly accommodate the subject matter of the poetry.
Most of the time, I disassociate the words from the poem. I find that creating scenes describing each stanza inevitably leaves one grasping for those connecting words that have not been coded as separate images. In other words, the scenes I try to create based on a literal interpretation of a stanza are not as powerful or vivid, i.e., not as memorable, as the entirely unrelated images I come up with as placeholders for individual words.
If anyone has ever read about the method Dominic O’Brien suggested for learning languages in “How to Pass Exams”, by using a city with gender zones and placing verbs in a park, nouns around the town etc a virtual memory town/city seems the perfect way to learn a new language.
It is hard to get the amount of journeys required to learn languages and also if you wish to get the 50 - 100 journeys that would be required for a World Memory Competition virtual journeys seem the way to go.
The Sims 4 is good, as well as the sims 3. You can add lots of furniture, change the wallpapers, add gardens and stuff. Although it’s a bit pricey, it makes building the palace a bit easier than building it in the mind. In theory.
Google sketch up is also a resource that could benefit many people, If theres someone willing to make memory palaces through google sketch up.
It think it’s a gold mine unused…
The houses are
-premade,
–in 3d,
-large (many of them)
-and you’re able to walk through them!
There are hundreds of premade houses available, there is a just a need for someone to make a video of a tour through them.
