3D video game

xBlocks is a video game that you can play on a sculpture. The mixed reality installation is inspired by platform games of the late 1980s such as Super Mario Brothers or Pitfall.

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Using standard game controllers, two opposing players must help their characters navigate in and around a 3D maze. The challenge comes, not from traditional game mechanics but rather from moving with your character as he sprints around corners and jumps between the installation’s two play surfaces.

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Developed by Victor Szilagyi and Tristam Sparks.

Check the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and Domus Academy show if you’re around Milan: it runs from April 7-10th (noon-8pm) then from 11th-21st (noon-5pm), at the Fabbrica del Vapore, Via Procaccini, 4.

Photographs 1 taken by Tristam Sparks and 2 by Aram Saroyan Armstrong.