Open Lab
“Once Upon a Tile” is a prototype for a mobile game about peace and sustainable development where players manage an evolving world by matching resource tiles and generating new results and products.
Made in partnership with We Are Müesli and Daniele Giardini.
This is a collaborative interactive fiction writing project. Open Lab created a specific online web based application allowing the collaborative creation of plot “fragments” and branching from them in different directions. This project received more than 50 thousand submissions of plot “fragments”.
The e-learning tool developed by the project is intended to afford young people from across Europe the opportunity to learn more about the different child protection systems in existence across the EU to help find early routes for help, if they are experiencing a problem of neglect and, or abuse.
The game stories take place in a town settings with certain locations and characters. These should be thought of as actors and stage elements that support different story compositions.
In town there is a list of places that are connected to the various stories / problems. Each of the stories, problem, choices, social interactions and town explorations influence positively or negatively your state of mind. If your state gets “too low”, the game ends and the story of your choices is presented.
To leave a mark on monuments is antisocial and childish behavior, while the will of leaving a mark, a keepsake is just part of human nature: the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore allows the visitors to leave that mark, of course not on monuments or artworks but in the world of virtuality, on a digital surface.
With Autography we have something completely new: there is no damage to the monument, but the graffiti is safe as well, gaining virtual immortality. With Autography the protection of monuments and the sharing of feelings are possible at the same time, in a win-win situation.
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