our first kiss
experience summary
Our First Kiss is a queer, alternative-controller festival game! Two players sit (in person) on a sofa with pressure sensors. They can choose to move toward each other, or move away. The players' actions on the sofa in real time are reflected by the silhouettes seen on screen. The game invites them to explore intimacy with each other, and asks if they will take the risk of being intimate in public.
This game relies upon audience participation via phone or computer input -- this part of our design has changed due to the antisocial nature of COVID quarantine. Instead of a typical festival game, the audience interacts via Twitch stream. They can send emoticons such as ":)" or ":/" and those emoticons will show up on the screen that the players are watching.
The installation is a fundamentally queer experience: it explores the idea of claiming public spaces as queer. Do you risk outting yourself in public in order to show your partner affection? Or do you stay in the closet?
my role
Co-Producer
- Used Trello to manage tasks, deadlines, and deliverables
- Coordinated weekly scrum meetings: the team discussed progress, blocks, and future goals
- Designed, filmed & edited the game's trailer
- In charge of outreach & gathering films and footage that feature queer and trans love, which were featured in the game
Audio Lead
- Recorded & mixed sounds for the game
- Supervised our lead composer
- Audio implementation in Unity
tools used
- Logic Pro X
- Unity
- Adobe Premiere
- Trello
- Google Suite