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Free

Rotted Luck

Videogame

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When

Sat 5 – Sun 13 Oct 2024

10am – 5pm

Play, dance and move to interact with this new videogame from Vidya Rajan and Ian MacLarty, which playfully critiques the dark side of gaming.

A special commission for our Melbourne International Games Week program, Rotted Luck explores the dark pattern game-design methods that some developers use to elicit compulsive and addictive behaviour in players: from loot boxes to serotonin spiking audio design.

Communal, non-addictive and movement-based, it pokes fun at these game design techniques, subverting the familiar design and symbology of slot machines through a three-channel interactive video work. By interacting with a webcam, your movements are translated into silly and surprising outcomes on screen.

Sound Design by Vidya Rajan and Xanthea O' Connor.

Tickets

FREE (drop in)

Where

Foyer, Level 1 (near Fed Square entrance)
ACMI, Fed Square

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About the artists

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Vidya Rajan

Vidya Rajan is an artist who works across live performance, screenwriting and digital space. Her practice is often playful and multi-disciplinary, with a special interest in game design, emergent technology and interactivity. Her recent work has been shortlisted for the International New Media Prize, The Freeplay game awards and awarded a Creative Australia fellowship. She is currently recovering from the end of a 6 year long DnD campaign.

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Ian MacLarty

Ian MacLarty is a videogame developer living in Melbourne with an interest in experimental design. He has released over 40 small non-commercial works, but has also self-published several award-winning commercial games. He has a background in computer science and often uses self-made tools and generative techniques.


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