Hey folks, I'm a Theatre and Performance student, and one of my practical projects that was supposed to be dance theatre in an art gallery obviously got cancelled! My tutor however asked us to develop a response to the stimulus in a different way and submit that instead. As I have like a tiny bit of coding skill, my first instinct was to make an online game of some kind. The artwork we were working with is by Sara Barker who is very interested in overlapping worlds and alternate dimensions. She made a recommended reading list for gallery visitors that included 'His Dark Materials' by Phillip Pullman and 'To The Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf, which also incorporate themes like that. She creates sculptural work that reflects these themes:
So the canvas shows one world, and the wire shows another. That's the basic interpretation I'm going with here. I really love her stuff.
The concept for my game is you have several overlapping voices of people, and you can control whose inner monologue to 'tune' into using slider controls, like a mixing desk. I'm doing the coding and visual design for my piece and my group partner is doing the writing.
Given the interpretation I've laid out, and the draft project I currently have, I'm really interested to hear feedback about:
- How could I make the visual appearance less clunky?
- Does the mechanic of tuning into different voices make sense? How could I expand on that idea?
- Is the concept at all interesting or engaging in the slightest? Would you want to listen to all the voices?
Here is a link to the draft game.
https://piratescarfy.itch.io/soundsliders-draft-1
The password is 'slider'. No quotes.
EDIT: Have been informed buttons and sliders don't work properly on Mozilla, so watch out for that.