This is an AI-native game driven by large language models (GPT-4). Start a journey in the ancient Persian Empire as the girl Shahrazad. Use magic to turn language into reality, collect weapons from the tales, and get revenge on a ruthless King. The fate of the world is yours to rewrite!

Abiogenesis refers to the natural processes by which life developed from non-living matter. Electrochemical reactions played a center role in the development and sustenance of life—as they still do today. In this interactive installation, viewers are confronted with a black monolith depicting primitive lifeforms, elements and landscapes drawn with those electrochemical reactions.

An interactive narrative about deadlines, the creative process, and losing control of your dice. Artworld Gaiden I: Progression/Digression is an interactive narrative that deals with balancing a creative output whilst earning a regular income. Based on direct experiences, it’s a story about deadlines, the anxiety that your ideas aren’t good enough, and what occurs when you lose control of your dice.

Astro.Log.IO architectures the concept of the music of the spheres by creating an immersive experience of an astrological natal-chart. Each player provides their birth data to have an expanded perception of themselves by being exposed to a spatial sound recreation of the spheres in their singular birthday’s sky.

A surrealist documentary videogame about a river that flows across Argentina’s Cuyo Desert and how the global climate crisis is threatening its historical ecosystem. Explore dreamlike landscapes, shapeshift into different animals, and listen to real-world interviews about the historic and intimate relationship between peoples and the lands they live on.

Beyond the Garden is an art installation with alternative controllers in which flora and fauna are the protagonists of an unique imagery inspired by the rich biodiversity of the Delta and Islands of the Parana River in Argentina. Beyond the Garden mixes ancestral stories and environmental studies to foster feelings of communion with nature by interacting with hand-drawn landscapes and touchable spiritual symbols. It aims to restore an endangered environment by contemplating species as if they were deities, growing native flowers, collect sacred objects and perform rituals.

A collaborative history-building game, played by drawing evolving town maps on overlaying sheets of paper. Border Riding explores how borders can create divisions between communities, and how petty village rivalries can turn into conflicts. By inventing communities and their border rituals you will explore how, in seeking safety from perceived threats, communities can vilify and warmly welcome those that fall outside of drawn borders.

Cis Penance is an interactive documentary allowing users ‘speak’ with 45 UK transgender people, experiencing deferment and waiting. Based on in-depth interviews carried out in 2019-2021 through a series of residencies, remote and in-person, the work brings to the surface some of the non-binary and non-dual approaches to life and identity that emerge through trans experiences of queer time.

Crashboard is a surfing cyberspace game controlled by a real skateboard. You have to avoid waves of operating system windows pop-up interface scrolling in your direction. You control the player position by leaning on the skateboard. The aesthetic of the game is crafted from glitch, retro web design and error system.

In this click & click adventure you will have a single button to advance in the story: a virtual routine of a content consumer who lives their day through different platforms that harvest their data. This data will end up reflected in a garden, the Data Garden. A growing garden where everything endures. A reflection of your digital self that knows more about you than yourself.

Data Garden is a project that has been made possible thanks to the support of Sickhouse (Enschede, The Netherlands). In 2023 the studio followed the Sick Prod Game trajectory mentored by Zuraida Buter.

Shaman Garage is a narrative studio based in the Netherlands which aims to brew the essence of storytelling and explore new experimental ways of expression.

A solitaire card game waiting for you where you least expect it, inspired by book-crossing. You can’t buy or download it, you must find one of its copies on the streets. After playing, you must leave it in a public space again so others can find it.

The interactive installation, eFA, immerses the viewer in a poetic universe where arts, technologies, and spirituality are closely intertwined. eFA offers a multisensory ritual where playfulness meets secrecy in a sensitive and current journey. Take the Queen Conch in your hands and whisper your question to eFA!

The work on the FA (Yoruba divinatory art and science) echoes the issues addressed by the TechnOrisha workshop, which aims to develop artistic and spiritual practices such as technoshamanism and techno-voodoo. The West African divinatory technique of the FA fascinates us by its similarities to binary computer code.

The work eFA is a result of exchanges between artists, technicians and traditional practitioners that were invited to the TechnOrisha workshop organised in Martinique by the Centre de Recherche en Arts Actuels in 2023.
The workshop was based on the premise that for Caribbean cultures, it is essential to anchor their traditions, but above all to envision themselves in the future and to propose imaginaries that place them at the centre, to revive ancient practices by giving them an updated form, integrating contemporary technologies.

Techn‘Orisha Collective is Livia Diniz, Benjamin Abras, Bruno Creuzet, Michel Petris, Henri Tauliaut, M’vwâma Diop, Annabel Gueredrat, Isabelle Arvers

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Inspired by mini-golf, Game Designer is a design tool that invites players to design their own courses, experimenting with layout, play style and rules to see how changes impact the fun, difficulty and playability of the game. Perfect your course at a small scale before playing the life size version.

Journeys are about crossing paths. We reach junctions in the road, deciding to go left or right, move ahead or turn back. Along the way we cross paths with people, either making direct contact or slipping past one another. With every decision, we intertwine threads of experience, creating a unique and complex pattern.

Labyrinth is a collaboration between London-based game designer Julia Makivic and Berlin-based weaver Emma Wood. In this room-size interactive game, players will weave their own labyrinth, crossing paths before their own personal journey is revealed.

This commission was supported by GLUM, an entity setup to support the development, promotion, and exhibition of local multiplayer and alternative controller game experiments. (https://glum.work)

The Lockdown Space collection invited people to submit observations on how their home environment had changed during lockdown. During lockdown domestic spaces became extraordinary through the way in which people had to rapidly re-imagine their homes. The Lockdown Space collection documents these unusual temporary and ‘in-between’ liminal spaces. The domestic home became the place where we work, socialise, exercise, learn, create, entertain, play, celebrate and escape.

A virtual maze built by assembling 3D reproductions of various corridors from science fiction films. The environment of an empty video-game: there is no way out, no action, no narrative and no other objective than the exploration of the maze itself.

Inspired by Mahmoud Darwish’s seminal work, “Memory For Forgetfulness”, Memorygame For Forgetfulness / Remembrance is a paired set of games that invite players to reflect upon the relationship between media, observation and remembrance while engaging in the act of repeatedly matching pairs of aerial images showing destruction in Gaza over the past ten years.

The interactive sound installation is hidden in an old suitcase with 5 drawers, each containing different objects, travel references, memories and documents. By opening these sliding doors, sounds are activated, changed and mixed. These recordings consist of ambient noises and voices, which visitors can use to create their own soundscapes.

NAVE Remoto is the long-distance remote-controlled game mode of NAVE Arcade, made possible by ROBOT.A™, an online robotic system developed by Videogamo, Inc. that allows players from around the world to physically control an arcade machine located in any other part of the planet, through their own personal devices.

In Korea, ‘Oneroom’ refers to a flat where the bedroom, kitchen, and living room are integrated into one space. Oneroom-Babel invites players to the ruins of ‘Oneroom’ sunk in the deep sea. Players experience the youth’s collective emotions rooted in ‘Oneroom,’ a spatialized suspension of housing stability. Oneroom-Babel characterizes the residential space ‘Oneroom’ as the home between homes and explores the bodily experience of housing instability.

Orchids to Dusk is a short networked wandering experience by Pol Clarissou with music by Marskye. You are an astronaut stranded on an alien planet, with only a few minutes left to live. Created with the support of KO_OP.

Proteus is an ambient musical game about observing and relating to the natural world and the passing of the seasons. Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.

Service Set is a series of wifi access points scattered throughout the festival. Visitors are invited to scan the wifi networks to discover the hidden access points and the game contained within them. To complete the game visitors will need to piece together information by connecting to different access points.

A video work that delves into the expansive and boundary-pushing landscapes of the sci-fi video game Cyberpunk 2077, The Edge of the World challenges the conventional perception of endless landscapes, prompting the viewer to question the existence – and perhaps the very meaning – of limits. The edges of these virtual realms, with their idiosyncrasies and unexpected functionalities, are not mere endpoints. Instead, they evoke the edges of our familiar world, inviting contemplation and reflection.

Winner of the “Jury’s Award” at IndieCade 2010.
Finalist at the Independent Game Festival.

Daniel’s most well-known artgame. Music by Hernan Rozenwasser.

Daniel Benmergui is an independent videogames creator, born and living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Twist and Shine is a beautiful landscape of interactive light sculptures. They are made of interconnected prisms that can be twisted into thousands of shapes. Every time someone changes the sculpture, they change the landscape and add to the sculpture’s story. Members of the public can work together, or witness others playing.

v r 5 is an exhibition of shadows as implemented by the Unity game engine’s lighting system. With some artistic license, the exhibition shows the influence and aesthetics of different types of lights, movements, and parameters that shape the usually unobtrusive world of virtual shadows.

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Walking the Face of my Dead Grandfather is an explorable memoryscape: a virtual landscape sculpted from data and memory. In it, the player wanders an empty environment that slowly fills with plants, objects, and vignettes that offer a portrait of a place, a person, and a life.