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A 'multiplayer failure simulator' intertwines language play, game art and documentary records. It is set in a vast maze that would take '300 years' to solve and at its center lie the artists sleeping in a cave, choosing failure as a method. The multi-layered sonic dimension consists of them having long conversations in their own languages, ultimately trying out new ways of communicating with each other while trapped in a gigantic architectural labyrinth in a never-ending cycle of day and night. The game can be played in single player mode, or with a second player helping to navigate using the solution printed on the mouse pad. With no conventional means of saving, the player is reminded, by trying to quit the game, to quote Jack Halberstam: "Losers leave no records?".

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Designed with Vladimir Nadein at the Experimental Game Cultures studio at die Angewandte, Wien.

Developed with the utmost help from Can Kahyaoglu. 

 

Exhibitions:

Ludic Territories, Das LOT, Vienna, 2024
Pata Play, EGC Studio, Vienna, 2024