Vector Meldrew

An original science-fiction universe of masked runners in a city where none of them are as strong as all of us — hand-built in 3D, given away in pieces, and taken by its audience in directions its author never planned.

Over five years it refused to stay in one place — owned characters, a novel, a rave, a live show, a game, and finally a game that builds itself — with one community following it the whole way, and taking it further than its authors planned.

Before social media, a website and a forum built in a bedroom became the first online home of grime, dubstep and UK garage — a room handed to a scene that had nowhere else to go, and a culture that formed inside it.

The animation that grew out of it reached television, and a decade later a documentary recorded what had happened there. In 2026 that animation entered the BFI National Archive.