Nadia Susanto – Looking Outwards – 12

I wanted to look at Phoenix Perry and Heather Kelley because they are both game developers. Phoenix Perry created a game called Bot Party where it explores intimacy through physical play using sound. It’s an interactive sound experience for humans and the bots need help from humans to communicate with their friends. The technology itself uses proprietary bot to skin to skin to bot communication protocol to send encoded secret messages.

Heather Kelley collaborated with several others on the project Fabulous/Fabuleux. It is a physical interface game for public interior spaces where players solve “connect the dots” challenges using the hotspots of the room. The players uses a “squisher” interface object and by connecting the hotspots it reveals objects on screen which relate to the fairy tale “The Girl Who Trod On A Loaf.”

Both of these games interest me because they require physical human interaction within it. I will be doing a project that requires human interaction, so I was inspired by these projects.

To learn more about bot party click below:

http://playbotparty.com/2018/01/24/WhatIsBotPartyl-prep/

To learn more about Fabulous/Fabuleux click below:

http://www.perfectplum.com/portfolio/fabulousfabuleux/