ACMI + RMIT Audience Lab: June 2025

Bones, a small skeleton on a whimsical journey of self-discovery, awakens in a strange and curious city far from his familiar resting place. With only fragments of memory and his own bones to guide him, he must unravel the city's secrets, solving puzzles limb by limb to uncover hidden clues and forge unexpected paths forward. As he quietly evades the living and delivers messages from those who can no longer speak, Bones seeks to uncover his identity, and the way back to his coffin.

Cyberpedia is a fictional CD-Rom game from the 90's which kids would boot up on their home computer, and through the power of the internet, the game would generate a museum full of exhibits for you to explore and learn all about. It's the information superhighway all in one place!

You're playing this game over 30 years later though... the state of the internet is a lot different now. As you go through the game you'll find that links go missing, information gets lost, and a certain, 'generative', trend has been spreading like a plague across the game.

Drawing inspiration from film, TV and graphic novels, Ashes combines the popular genres of Visual Novel and Adventure Game to deliver an exciting single-player, supernatural thriller. Set in Melbourne and country Victoria, over the course of eleven chapters you play as sixteen year old Azar, who’s been sent to hide out at her reclusive grandfather’s property after witnessing a murder at her local skatepark. Through interactive story elements and deductive puzzles, you will help Azar uncover a dark family secret and save herself from the danger that is brewing on all fronts.

A Highly Sensitive Experience is a VR prototype that immerses players in the world of Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), focusing on the overwhelming moments of sensory overload. This initial version highlights everyday challenges HSPs face and offering a glimpse from the HSP perspective. Created by Hin Long, a Melbourne-based VR designer, the project aims to evolve into a comprehensive experience, incorporating positive traits of HSPs, such as deep creativity and empathy, alongside coping strategies.

In Deep Waters invites players to explore an artfully sculpted digital marine biorama. Natural ecosystems of the Asia-Pacific region can be observed through novel physical slider and button controls, and are guided by research on the impacts of plastic waste on the habitats of birds, kelp, and whale species. While investigating shallow coastlines and deep ocean waters, players witness how a thriving environment can eventually turn desolate as a consequence of human interference. This game is the first in a series seeking to capture the vitality of our current ocean and waterway biomes before they are irrevocably changed.

This project is a 360-degree 3D animated film that explores the harsh living conditions of Hong Kong’s 'coffin rooms'—extremely cramped spaces that reflect the city’s housing crisis. Told from a first-person perspective, the story follows an elderly woman caring for her sick husband in their confined home. Through immersive visuals and emotional storytelling, the film highlights daily struggles, emotional despair, and social isolation.

You play as a Bee musician in Naarm! Befriend the local animals, and they will give you plant-instrument seeds to cultivate in a symphonic music ecosystem.

Play music with your musical garden, and help it germinate and mature over the real Naarm seasons. Once your plants are fully matured, conduct them in a pollination orgy extravaganza!

Collect musical tracks to add to your discography by exploring different biomes, and playing with different combinations of plants, and advance your Bee Maestro career.

Start off with just a windowsill band, and then work up to a community garden of epic symphony proportions.

Directly after WWI, Ross Jackman, a sailor in Rhode Island, is ordered on a special mission to date gay men in order to infiltrate the gay community in the U.S. Navy. Players interact with historical locations, people and objects to gain invites to parties, hide their identity, and get irrefutable proof homosexuals are out there. Players choose who they date and, when they start suspecting they are homosexuals themselves, whether or not they remain committed to the cause. Based on real-life historical events.

Play a part in a story built by everyone. Generations is a turn-based web game, where you step into the life of a unique character for a generation. Your choices visibly alter a shared world where every action leaves a lasting mark. See how decisions ripple across time, shaping the landscape and narrative. The AI weaves together this living history, revealing the collective legacy built by the community's journey.

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