After all, the space is so large it’s a dominant visual feature and must be engaging even when not being played. In addition, we noticed there were significant hurdles in developing AIs which functioned as invisible players, to have the games moving/playing when no one is touching. Games like these have to exist over three visual dimensions: the up close player, using the touch screen to play, the step-back visual dimension where players and their friends can see the entire space to gauge their game play, and the far away dimension for those walking by or studying nearby watching the screens dominate the visual space. While it’s exciting to be part of a project building some of the world’s first games for giant touch screen spaces, it does limit your game playing audience to those willing to travel to Brisbane Australia. Unlike other games both previously developed which could be played on nearly any device, Cryptext and Nomencluster are entirely site specific, created uniquely for QUT’s Cube Space. And Nomencluster an interactive artwork/game where players create with science shapes and designs, and through each of the six levels poetic text is generated by the player’s movements.

Cryptext, a puzzle science fiction game, where players use giant wheels, one to each touch screen, to solve a cryptic X-files style mystery surrounding a secret military technology program. They eventually perfected their methods and created two games/artworks. How do you entice people to play games on a space over 40 feet wide and 14 ft high? However making games for a giant touch screen space is totally different than any other platform. Working over 9 months Jason and Matt experimented with various game iterations, including cannon/catapult based games for shooting news feed headlines and a strange artistic version of the classic block breaker game. Jason worked with newly minted games developer Matt Horton to rethink this space as a giant game environment. The space is a world’s first, costing over 15 million and comprised of four sides, extending over two stories and using over 40 6 foot high touch screens each with their own computer working in conjunction with towering projection spaces. We are enemies and other art games) received an Australia Council arts grant to create games/interactive artworks for a new giant touch screen space at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Digital Poet/art game builder Jason Nelson (creator of game, game, gam, e and again game, I made this. Take one of the world’s largest, most advanced touch screen spaces, combine it with two experimental game makers/digital artists and new games/art genre is born.

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