A Story is Not a Tree

In an attempt to introduce some kind of player choice to our black and white hostage game, we’ve decided to simply display different messages depending on which shape the player ends up murdering.  This seems appropriate since the only real…

Fusion Reaction is a very simple black and white game, which only uses three components. The user starts off with this screen: The user must figure out what to do to cause the titular “reaction.” Both of the squares are…

“Spoiler Alert” Today, our Remix the City class was lucky enough to hear Jason Eppink talk about his work. A million thank you’s to Angela for making this possible. She’s the best. I first became aware of him about two years ago, when…

In this game you play as a black circle who’s main objective is to dodge triangles long enough for a portal to appear and teleport you to safety. In this first screenshot, you can see the circle as well as…

I’ve been experimenting with the original code for “Bammer” and warping it into more of a sandbox art piece. The form of the game is constantly shifting, and one of the ways I did this was by adding a score…

The Mystery of Frogboy is a basic bastardization of Frogger, minus a few elements. The user is a circle mapped to mouseX and mouseY, and initially begins at the bottom of the screen in landscape mode. Seven squares bounce back…

There is a village: The monster comes out at night: The monster eats moon children: This ‘game’ is really a few-second long cutscene, because despite numerous attempts, I was never completely able to get gameplay working with the cutscene, and…

Bubble Tower has undergone some major revisions since our last post. Now, the shuffler is in the middle of the screen. Each time the user taps the correct color, a circle appears in the top half of the screen. Each…

Monster is a single-player game based on the idea of mixing random possibilities. The basic setting is a village where five people live: a monster who can breath fire in the night to destroy the village; a hunter who can kill…

Chasing88 (or Reverse) is a black and white game based on the idea of clockwise/counterclockwise motion. The interface is consists of four moving circles. All of them are doing clockwise circular motion at different speeds; therefore if left alone, they…

What is it about our particular society that makes us so uncomfortable with disorder? One of the primary characteristics of a city is its structure and planning, each element deliberate. I believe that this ‘ordering’ of space contributes to our…

“Linearity at Play” We actively choose to design, decorate, and plan our spaces, making them inherently politicized. Spaces as arenas of visual perception, are direct our vision by the queues and markers which are chosen be set into them, conscious or…

Took my sticker design, printed it across 60 pieces of paper at the library and taped it together. Then removed an ad in a bus stop ad shelter in NYC and stuck it inside. I knew the piece would be backlit,…

Strategy in terms of the ‘Reframe’ and ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ readings: For the first image, I took part of the SLC brochure slogan “You are different. So are we.”, and contrasted it with uniform rows of pixelated ‘white hipster’…

Bubble Tower is a single-player tablet game in which a large circle at the bottom of the screen changes color. The user must tap the large circle when the color at the bottom of the screen matches the color given…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CONgeNlxVug&list=UULd-8dbneh6QHH2pd55u6kA (for some reason, it would let me embed the video, so follow the link to watch it on youtube) I sort of have to give it to this guy for intruding on people’s personal space and challenging their notions…

Our game is an abstracted sort of hostage scenario simulation.  We’ve created the player-controlled triangle, the enemy square and the neutral circle(s), all white against a black background.  The concept is that when the screen/mouse is tapped (which is the…

Designing Player Experience in Evasion Evasion is a simple race to the end game in which the player navigates a circle to a goal while avoiding obstacles that will destroy him. The background of the screen is black, while all the…