related projects

Floating Territories
In the first phase of the game, participants make decisions which result in being assigned a tribal allegiance. Each tribe is represented by it’s own distinctive iconography and has it’s own role and goals:eg.defender -repel the invading force & nomad -you acknowledge no border. Once the game is played out an additional path is offered giving participants the opportunity to contribute their personal family migration history through a playful mapping interface. Making a contribution allows access to a visualisation of all accumulated maps.

Bio-tek Kitchen
Game mod of Marathon Infinity created by Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski. We changed the guns into kitchen implements and the aliens into mutant sweet corn and tomatoes. The mission of the game, communicated on text terminals throughout the station, is to clear a kitchen laboratory of vegetables using domestic weapons such as dish cloths and egg flippers. The player is attacked by aggressive genetically modified vegetables and learns throughout the game of a world wide corporate conspiracy to take over the entire food chain.

Bad Code
Game prototype by VNS Matrix, funded by the Australian Film Commission. This futuristic quest CD ROM game revolves around All New Gen, an omnipresent female intelligence whose mission is to sabotage the databanks of the insidious Big Daddy Mainframe. All New Gen is assisted on her mission by the DNA Posse, a band of feisty renegade Sheroes, along with Ferals, Data Deviants, Cortex Crones and Code Warriors.