Congestion

A Game about Competition for Habitats

Chenhao Ma
MAUD 2022
Zhiyu Li
MAUD 2022
Zirui Pang
MAUD 2022
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1 Congestion

Along with the increase of the population of human being, people occupy and have impacts on more and more pieces of land which used to be the habitats of different kinds of other species.

We take a box with sheep in it, representing the living environment of animals. The triggers are a few buttons that people can press that indicates different types of urbanization products including buildings and cars. When a button is pressed, one more artificial product will be produced and sent into the box. If people keep pressing those buttons, the box will become more and more congested, meanwhile the sheep will be pushed to the top or corners of the box and finally pushed out of the box and the box. The sheep kicked out of the box will fall onto the plane with red cones, explode and disappear which illustrates the story that human’s anti-nature-behaviors sent animals to the “hell”.

The pressing from the participants represents the constructing behaviors of human and the disappearance of those objects in the box is regarded as their natural life span. Once the speed of pressing is too high, due to human’s greed, the balance will no longer exist.

Project video
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2 Situation phases
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3 Human competing with animals
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4 The death of sheep
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5 User experience