Permit Office
liveA geoprocessing tool that pushes ArcGIS past its intended limits — treating GIS software like a game engine.
Overview
Permit Office is a geoprocessing tool — and, quietly, a game — built inside ArcGIS. The premise was to see how far the platform’s geoprocessing and rendering pipeline could be bent away from analysis and toward real-time, interactive behavior, using GIS primitives as the building blocks of a game engine.
What I built
- A game-style loop running on top of ArcGIS geoprocessing tools
- Spatial data and layers repurposed as interactive game state
- Rendering and feature updates driven in near real time rather than batch analysis
Status
Working tool. It started as an experiment in pushing the software somewhere it was never meant to go, and turned into a genuinely playable proof of concept.