Redbeard’s Pirate Quest Connected toy pirate ship adventure In the late 1990s, San Mateo-based Zowie Intertainment, one of two kids’ technology start-ups at Paul Allen’s Interval Research, developed and built the first generation of “connected…
Housed Within Marrow Curator’s statement May 1, 2020 Remember with me those days – just a few months ago – when we understood so little, knew almost nothing, and newly feared so much. Remember the…
Guilty Smells For LIKELIKE’s September 2019 exhibition Analog Pleasures, I collaborated with molleindustria to create the world’s smelliest dystopian video game. Created during a time in American history that has provided plentiful evidence of…
Protection Song Near the beginning of the pandemic, as the world shut down, the hospitals overflowed, and the United States erupted in renewed calls for racial justice, I was asked to submit a session…
Trente Pas (Version Musicale) Trente Pas Entre Terre et Ciel (version Musicale) is an extremely long hopscotch, designed to be played by multiple pairs of players at once. In a numbered sequence of squares, each consecutive…
(You Construct Intricate Rituals) One strand of my research work is an exploration of Somatics (the study of the subjective felt sense of the body) in game design. My February 2017 talk at Screenshake in Antwerp…
SUPERHYPERCUBE SUPERHYPERCUBE is a VR “first person puzzler” developed by my collective Kokoromi as a launch title for PlaystationVR. It features classic controls and intuitive shape-matching gameplay. To play, you control a group…
THE DANCINGULARITY THE DANCINGULARITY is an audience-interactive dancegasm induction machine created and controlled by KOKOROMI. On September 21, 2012, THE DANCINGULARITY debuted at the Highball in Austin, TX as part of Fantastic Arcade. This…
Scent: Expressive chemistry This is an excerpt of a larger lecture about designing playful experiences, games-as-art, and my newest research in olfactory play experiences. This lecture was co-sponsored by the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry,…
