Valentia, c. 100 BC · Captured in real time

Audiovisual and interactive historical recreation

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Humans · Grecia · Valentia · America · Elcano
Projects

One timeline, many eras

Each project sits in its own time. The timeline grows with every new recreation, whether audiovisual, interactive or for a museum.

Watch the 2025 showreel on Vimeo
Prehistory Recreation of a Neanderthal in a forest at dawn, still from Humans

Humans

Short documentary about our origins, from Australopithecus to Sapiens.

Film · Documentary Chroma Awards 2025 · 2nd place, University
Chroma Awards 2025 · Finalist, History
Ancient Greece Black-figure Greek amphora in a stone courtyard

Greek Pottery

A catalogue raisonné of fifteen key pieces of Greek pottery.

Study · Digital archive
c. 100 BC Valentia and the Turia seen from the air in the demo

Valentia

Demo of a historical management game set in Roman Valencia.

Playable demo · Evidence grades
1492 America poster: Columbus holding a globe between the Catholic Monarchs

America

A comedy about the discovery of America.

Fiction · Comedy Chroma Awards 2025 · Finalist, History
Fairground · Winner of the Week
c. 1486 – 1526 Juan Sebastián Elcano on the deck of a ship facing a grey sea

Elcano

Short film about the life of Juan Sebastián Elcano.

Film · Documented history View the project dossier
Next era

In production

The timeline reorders by date whenever a new project arrives.

Playable demo · Learning through play

Valentia · El cuestor del foro

A prototype that turns historical research into a game experience, designed for museums, classrooms and public outreach. You are the quaestor of Valentia for a year and a spring, around 100 BC: you manage the treasury, stock the horreum, fire up the furnace of the baths and prepare for the governor’s visit. Each assignment teaches you how to play while telling part of the city’s story.

Status
Playable demo · v1.0
Session
About 15 minutes · 10 linked assignments
Platform
In the browser, no installation (Three.js · WebGL)
Language
Spanish
Rigour
Every building shows what is documented and what is hypothesis, with fact sheets and sources
Codex
14 discoveries unlocked through play
Terrain
Palaeo-landscape reconstructed from the digital terrain model of Spain’s National Geographic Institute (IGN)
City
3D recreation of the city, with its houses and public buildings
Characters
Residents, colonists, Edetani and soldiers, plus an archaeologist who guides each assignment
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The guide

An archaeologist introduces each assignment and asks a question once it is done. Here, the forum assignment (in Spanish).

The assignments

  1. Taking office: the forum
  2. A new warehouse
  3. Hot water at the baths
  4. A ship sails up the Turia
  5. Market day
  6. The harvest
  7. The coinage of Valentia
  8. Autumn rains
  9. Winter fevers
  10. The governor’s visit
Method

From sources to screen

The same process works for an audiovisual piece, an interactive experience or a museum gallery.

1

Sources

Texts, documents, maps and archaeological remains. Everything shown starts from them.

2

What we know and what we don’t

What is documented is kept apart from what is proposed. In Valentia, every building also carries its evidence grade.

3

Recreation

3D modelling, real-time engines and artificial intelligence. One world that can be reused for video, the web or a museum.

4

Experience

That world becomes an audiovisual piece or an interactive experience.

About

Alfonso Castro

I study History, Geography and Art History at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). I trained in 3D, animation and video games, and later, through various courses, in digital heritage, film and editing. Since then I have kept learning on my own, project by project: film language, real-time environments, extended reality and, in recent years, artificial intelligence applied to audiovisual and interactive work.

AI is making technology and production far more accessible, and the past is no longer told in words alone. But the approach stays the same: start from the sources and be clear about what we know and what we don’t.

I work independently from Valencia, Spain, and I am open to collaborating with museums, production companies and institutions.

Festivals

  • Chroma Awards 20252nd place, University category · Humans  |  Finalists, History category · Humans and America
  • AI Movie AwardsFinalist · Humans and The King’s Four Wives
  • AI ZONE International AI Film Festival 2026Official selection · Humans and America
  • AI FilmFest Serbia 2026Official selection · Humans
  • FairgroundWinner of the Week · America

Distribution and partnerships

  • Fairground AI Creator TVThe Roku Channel and other connected TV platforms · Humans, America and The King’s Four Wives
  • GenFlixStreaming platform for AI-made cinema
  • DreaminaCreative Partner
Museums · Production companies · Education

Let’s talk

castroicm86@gmail.com
© 2026 Alfonso Castro · Historical recreation Valencia, Spain