Puerto Rico is an ARG that takes place on a faux-blog of a vacation to the same place. It was rolled out over a few days, with one new "blog update" giving more and more clues until it culminated in a final push that required the participant to assist in the protagonist's goal.
In order to "experience" it, scroll down to Day 1.
Wild West is a basic color-matching game, where one tries to match the background color to the color of the square traveling from right to left. The white square is controlled by WASD while the black is controlled by the arrow keys, and the background color is mapped to their relative positions on the screen. In single player, both squares should be controlled by one player and matching the square creates a new one to match. It is difficult and meditative. In 2-player, one controls white and one controls black.
Created in a few weeks, Balance is an attempt to meld two different grid-based styles of play, loosely based on the polarity of political beliefs in the United States. This is a two-player game, where player 1 uses WASD and the arrow keys, while player 2 uses the mouse.
To Dream is a first-person interactive film with a basic tree-structure branching narrative. At several points during the film, the user has to make one key decision: to fall back to sleep or to get up and either start or continue his waking day. These decisions affect the flow of the narrative and how it ends. It was made using the very outdated DVD Studio.
I Hear Los Angeles is an audio-only 3D space in which sound clusters exist that are reflective of my personal perception of real neighborhoods in Los Angeles (Palms, USC, and Echo Park). The audio is a mix of field recordings, sound libraries, and synthetic sounds.
I was mainly interested in (1) how people navigate spaces with the 3D audio abilities native to Unity3D [not well], and (2) the idea of subjective audio and whether or not my attitudes about the real-space were reflected in the digital space [yeah, pretty well, actually.]
“Hey, Have You Seen This Thing from the Internet?” was an installation made for USC’s School of Cinematic Arts gallery. Two cats, made from a mash-up of cat pictures, follow people as they pass in front of the screen. When they get close enough, the cats show them a trending picture from the internet (at the time of the installation). The longer people stand looking at the pictures, the greater the cat’s score.
This is a pumpkin that can tell your fortune. Ask it a yes or no question and press the fortune-telling button. It will think for a while and then flash blue for yes and red for no.