Robert Oh- Looking Outwards-10

Caption: Phoenix Perry’s Bot Party (2017)

For this week’s Looking Outwards Post, I decided to talk about “Bot Party”, created by Phoenix Perry in 2017. Bot Party is an educational tool that Perry created to teach children about how sounds get created. The boxes are able to detect when a person is holding them. Furthermore, if two people who are both holding these boxes hold hands, the bots are able to detect this and create sounds. I really admire the fact that Perry created this fun, interactive game to educate children.

Perry is the head of MA independent gaming, Goldsmiths, University of London (she is also a lecturer under the department of computing). Perry has created other educational games to teach younger children. I really appreciate the work she has put in to make education more fun.