Warning: these works use glitchy visual effects that are probably not safe for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Please be careful!

Explanation

This is a series of works that came out of a residency carried out in early 2018 in Tokyo, with the Creator Ikusei project, which is supported by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. I adopted research techniques from ethnography and history, such as open-ended interviews and participant observation, and developed a method of representing the results of this research in a playful and interactive form that draws heavily from familiar interaction design patterns such as the tamagotchi-style virtual pet and role-playing game multiple-choice dialogue systems.

Some of the development was funded by Making Ways, Sheffield City of Makers.

All of these pieces are made in Pico-8, a simulation of a 1980s computer that never actually existed..