Nadia Susanto – Looking Outwards – 11 – [OLD FALL 2019] 15-104 • Introduction to Computing for Creative Practice

Chloe Varelidi is an indie game designer/developer that designs and builds playful products that empowers humans to be creative, kind, and curious.

One of her projects was the Minicade, and this was a collaboration with Atul Varma for her artist residency at Eyebeam. The Minicade is a website and app where people can collaboratively build mini arcade games with multiple users. Each person can add a link to one or more games to a custom playlist and instantly play them as one massive game, that keeps track of score and increases the difficulty. Its very simple to use and users can either play the games already provided or remix the mini-game with their own code. While the Minicade is mostly used by kids to encourage them to learn the basics of programming, it is fun for everyone to use.

The use of mini-games itself reminds me of mini-games in popular apps like Dumb Ways to Die, and it adds a cool competitive aspect for kids to interact with each other by building games they did themselves.