Art Games!

Hypnogenesis is a video feedback space shooter in which arcade gameplay is integrated with the controls of a video synthesizer.

Schema is a living digital creature inhabiting a forest world, its behavior and emotional states shaped in real time by collective audience input through a controller and Twitch's chat interface. Participants modulate the creature's arousal and inward-to-outward orientation, triggering shifting blends of curiosity, anxiety, contentment, and aggression that ripple through its decision-making, determining how it explores, retreats, or confronts its environment. By day it gathers glowing pearls; by night those pearls become offerings that translate into generative sound. At its core, Schema is an experiment in what happens to a single creature's inner life when control over it is distributed across many people, and how much play can emerge from just two degrees of input.

'Heaven and earth aren't humane. To them the ten thousand things are straw dogs.'–Tao Te Ching
Straw dogs are ancient Chinese ceremonial objects, used as a substitute for live animal sacrifice. This microgame-poem operates similarly, depicting a simplified dynamic ecosystem that reacts and adapts to human intervention, inviting the player to sit within the unintended consequences and lasting impacts of their actions both within and beyond the game. The Taoist angle hints at the motivations behind the piece, and a possible Way to approach gameplay.

Escape your captors as a puddle of petroleum on the run from Big Oil. Collect more oil to grow big and juicy. Bounce and slide. Operate heavy machinery. Flush polluters down the drain. Crude Oil is a feature-length video game that satirizes petro-capitalism’s entanglements from a nonhuman perspective. It combines puzzle-platformer mechanics with physics-based movement and blob simulation. The full game is available on Steam this summer.

“Go Groundshel!” is a “Super Maria” puzzle adventure game in which a groundhog girl endeavors to save her male partner from the villain. Awkwardly stepping out of her comfort zone, she becomes a heroine who confronts enemies despite lacking combat training. However, before locating her partner, she needs to solve a personal issue: finding a usable toilet!

The doomsday clock ticks to midnight. All social systems meltdown. Large parts of the world regress to a medieval social structure – while retaining and developing many of the technological systems of the early 21th century. The level 4 autonomous being tasked to find The Solution(TM) to the problem, goes rogue. After simmering in 7.7 petabytes of Mr. Beast content, the AI christen himself Jimmy9, and begins hosting grotesquely cruel, but fair, game shows for his empire of rats. 93 years after the catastrophe Rat237 travels to one of Jimmy9’s pocket worlds. The pursuit for the ultimate prize (a never seen before level of Unaltered Psychotic Freedom) begins.

The Ring (Montreal)
Dormant Memories series
Dormant Memories is a series of experiments exploring captured fragments of the world: places frozen in time and their possible alternate realities.
The Ring begins with a volumetric capture of a real location in Montreal, reconstructed using 3D Gaussian Splats. Using World Labs’ Marble world generation model, alternate versions of the same space were generated, with transformations informed by the original architecture and material qualities of the site.
All versions of the space coexist within the same spatial coordinate system. A portal allows visitors to step between the reconstructed real-world environment and its alternate versions.

Layers Upon Layers is a multiplayer sand simulator exploring the contradictions of persistent memory. Taking place across a wide landscape, it draws upon swarm dynamics and the legacy of destructible terrain within game worlds to explore group agency at scale. Portaling in through their phones, players interact with Layers Upon Layers by clearing out sections of multicolored sand. By repeatedly digging, tapping, and swiping, they fold into a flow state: preserving, eroding and contributing to the historical topology of the world.

Early development build of Plim. Play as plims living on the surface of a water world. Court other plims, lay eggs, find berries for your babies, and explore.
Created by Miles Peyton and Ida Pruitt with sound design by Pamela_ and her sons
Note: This is an early build. Everything in the game is subject to change.

Interactive pixel art/music looping Art Game

BLABRECS is an AI-based mod for the popular wordgame SCRABBLE. Rather than 'real' dictionary words, BLABRECS forces players to use nonsense words that are accepted as valid by a slightly janky classifier *trained on* the dictionary. BLABRECS aims to aestheticize the weirdness of having a computer tell you 'that's not a real word' – and to promote linguistic diversity, rather than homogenization, by pushing people away from familiar vocabulary. Invented words tend to reflect players' diverse linguistic backgrounds in unexpected ways.
As in SCRABBLE, BLABRECS players sit around a physical board and take turns making words by placing letter tiles drawn from a bag onto a crossword-like grid. BLABRECS is played with a standard SCRABBLE board and tiles, plus a phone or computer with a browser tab opened to the BLABRECS web interface. Players use the web UI to test words they want to play against the classifier, and to build up a list of nonsense words invented in this session; there's also space for a player-editable definition of each word.

Pretend is a abstract game try represent public opinion in three levels. In each scene, you will be able to use mouse control 'you' and your follower in different way.

Go fishin' in this semi-autobiographical Game Boy game about expectations, queerness, and the possibility of dreaming bigger.
Based on a true conversation the artist had with her mom at a seafood restaurant, the game allows players to make the choice to fish–or not...
What if we refuse to play the game?

Mote is an interactive ecosystem simulation composed of hundreds of thousands of organisms. It integrates elements from both games and research to create a sandbox for physics, computational biology, and machine learning. It uses a custom GPU-based physics engine to model the interactions of many simple behaviors at a massive scale, producing a wide range of emergent phenomena.

Thoughts & Prayers the game: a 'game' where you use the power of thoughts and prayers to end gun violence in the United States. Hint: you never win.

Xinsect and Bug George have reached instar 4, the last stage of their lives. They've shed their shells for the last time and feel an immense need drawing them, like a whirlpool, to the centreof great bug maze. Help Xinsect and Bug George reach the maze centre before their time runs out.

Cool-It, aka the Core Cooling System, is an audio game that juxtaposes the high-stakes adult world of nuclear power with the nostalgic, playful urgency of the Bop It children’s toy from the 1990s. It explores how in the right environment, even “serious systems” can start to feel like a game.
In Cool-It, you play the role of a nuclear reactor engineer, operating the core cooling system of a Cold War era fission reactor. You must follow audio commands to keep the core temperature in a healthy range, avoiding a supercriticality event and a potential nuclear meltdown.
Cool-It is a 'Nuclear Bop-It.' Players encounter a heavy-duty steel industrial control panel with a giant welded lever switch and a cast-iron valve wheel. The machine barks commands—“Set temperature to 70,” “Open Vent 4,” “Close Main Valve”—and players have only seconds to respond using the physical controls. The pace accelerates until a command is missed, ending the round.