A NEW outdoor mobile phone game will soon be launched to help residents explore the area.

The community arts agency, Stream Arts, has been working with pupils from Woolwich Polytechnic as well as arts organisation, Active Ingredient, to design a game where players create their own imaginary Woolwich with its own community.

Exploding Places can be played on a phone screen and through headphones and is being launched in Woolwich Town Centre on July 24.

A spokesman for Stream Arts said: "Exploding Places takes you on a journey through time and space.

"You arrive in a fictional Woolwich, create your own community and place them in the real world Woolwich.

"Over the space of an hour you and your community travel through 120 years of local and global history.

"The First World War passes in just a few minutes as you play the game to ensure your survival."

Designers claim the game offers participants a playful way to engage with Woolwich and get involved with issues such as regeneration.

They say it explores how new communities come to live in new areas, what happens to them, how they grow, whether they thrive and settle, and whether they move on.

During the launch the game will be broadcast on the big screen in General Gordon Square.

Anyone who wants to play the game for the first time on the big screen should call 020 8858 2825 or email anna@streamarts.org.uk

For more information or to check out how the game would look, visit explodingplaces.org