The Great Fire of London - Flash to HTML5 Rebuild

The Great Fire of London is an educational game, produced by fish in a bottle, designed to teach players about the key events surrounding the historic fire. The original experience was created in Flash, and fish in a bottle was commissioned to fully recreate and modernise it in HTML5 following the end of the Flash era.

The project was produced to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London. As part of the fish in a bottle development team, we worked closely with the client, the Museum of London, to ensure the updated game met their educational and accessibility needs. We also collaborated with Cambridge University Press, another key client, to ensure the final product aligned with curriculum expectations.

The client was able to provide the original product and some of the original assets but unfortunately not the original source. This meant that we had to reverse engineer the product based upon on our experience with the original.

Alongside recreating the original product for modern environments, we also made design decisions in order to make the product more compatible and user friendly on mobile devices. These design decisions also allowed us to comfortably meet the accessibility requirements.

The Great Fire of London is available on your web browser right now!