First-hand material. Two kinds, kept in one place because they are the same act: going to look, rather than reading what somebody concluded.

Interviews

A paper tells you what was done, but never why a decision was made. For that you have to ask — and what usually comes back is that the person who built the thing cannot fully account for how it works either.

That gap is the research. Semi-structured interviews with people making gameful interactive installations, across different countries and practices, all circling one question:

Do they recognise game mechanics in their own language for what they do — or is it happening without a name?

Sion Cao

Observations

Exhibition and festival notes, written from inside the audience rather than about it. What actually happened in the room, put down before it gets tidy.

Wavy RGB — Floating Point Studio

Adding something

One page per interview, one page per visit. Written the same day if possible — the value is in what has not yet been rationalised.

This is where the playtests will go. Two pages is the honest state of this section today; the sessions that test the prototype belong here, and they are the largest thing still missing from this site.

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