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I had been thinking recently about what it feels like to be vulnerable and capture that in a mini-game format. Still a work in progress, but the idea is that you have a vulnerability score and opportunities to increase it. The different phrases are your attempts to connect (by hitting space bar). You try to type out the phrase and any typos reduce the amount of vulnerability points that get added to your score. If you have more than 3 typos, it's a failed attempt and your overall vulnerability score reduces. You could choose to never attempt to connect but of course that means your score never increases.
I'm not sure yet what the final level will be.
I had been making mini-games around fun themes like anxiety, AAPI identity, struggling with not being able to speak tagalog, life's struggles so the natural inclination was to make a 3d arcade that housed all of these games.
This bingo game is my attempt to dissect some complicated truths about being an Asian American. Part of this is prompted by this idea that those across the AAPI community share some universal patterns within our backgrounds whether it's recurring traits within our families, how society and the media treats us, or how we think of ourselves. And it also fascinates me to see reactions from those who come from other backgrounds and compare and contrast the overlap with our respective identities. Some of these things are boxes that I don't necessarily check for myself but I've heard recurring from others, and many are things that I've experienced myself.
I wanted to capture the feel of trying to balance all of the different types of bandwidth in every day life
