game

Chapeau

Salt Castle Studio (AT), Fachhochschule Salzburg (AT)

Chapeau is a fast-paced multiplayer platformer where you and your friends each play a quirky hat, challenging each other for objectives while engaging in mid-air combat.

Slime Mold Chess

Hakan Lidbo (SE)

This game is a collaboration between one of our planet’s most simple forms of intelligence and the most advanced. Slime mold and humans.

Proelium

Hakan Lidbo (SE)

*Proelium* is a board game with a space-folding board, developed for people with enhanced ability to see patterns.

Deep Quiz

Andrea Aschauer (AT), Jeremiah Diephuis (US), Jürgen Hagler (AT), Wolfgang Hochleitner (AT), Georgi Kostov (BG), Gabriel Mittermair (AT)

*Deep Quiz* transforms the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space into an interactive TV-like game show. The application combines physical exercise, group dynamics and learning as an exciting, playful assessment performance that entertains the audience with one central question: just how much do you know?

Alterplex

Hakan Lidbo (SE)

Alterplex is a strategic board game where the board is invisible, except seen through the pieces. The moving properties of the pieces are decided by the animations of the board, constantly changing, following a hidden pattern. The game is synchronized with a musical structure that guides the players with timing and strategy. As the players have to predict many possible futures, the game becomes a training tool for non-linear thinking.

3D Chess

Hakan Lidbo (SE)

We humans think, dream and imagine in 2D, but with this game we can practice using our zero gravity minds. 3D Chess is seemingly simple but not easy to master.