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What If We're The Art
1media/What_If_Were_The_Art_BannerImage_thumb.jpg2023-10-10T08:07:57-07:00Dana Reijerkerk019db768bf3830a97fe7e6288c61c1ade502d9bf434984What if WE are the art? What if your existence is a disturbing art installation in a gallery of the unknown? Our laughter, our pain, our bodies meticulously arranged for us to play out stories for the enjoyment of the white gaze. What if every moment spent is an unsettling trespass into domains where white eyes watch with disapproval, their words and actions conveying our unwelcome status?plain2023-11-20T12:42:34-08:00Playground.aiGenerative AI Prompt: caucasian man standing behind a black little girl, art museum, horror movie settingCopyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, Dana ReijerkerkGuidance Scale: 7Sampler: PNDM (PLMS)Model: Stable Diffusion XLCreated: 8/11/2023Dana Reijerkerk019db768bf3830a97fe7e6288c61c1ade502d9bf
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All Are Welcome is a nonlinear psychological horror text-based game that explores the horror of the Black and Indigenous experience in the United States while touring a virtual reality art exhibition. Play as a Black climate refuge visiting the museum where visitors become the art.
Experience seven unique deaths across eight chapters that piece together the full Afrofuturist story. Reluctantly face off against AI generated artworks based on real-life public art in Philadelphia, PA. Make split-second choices that extend your life or take it.
Game Development
I built the video game on Twine using audio from freesounds.org and images generated with Playground.ai and Craiyon.ai and remixed in Canva. Some story board ideas were initially generated using ChatGPT and reworked into original content. I utilized the HAL audio library for Twine's Harlowe story format as well as built-in Macros, CSS, and JavaScript to bring my interactive horror story to life. Check out my developer log in GitHub for more about my design process.
