A playable work in progress
A game of arrangements.
An ongoing experiment in form, motion, and sound.
Inside the work
Agent sessions explore the artwork, simulate arrangements, and render sound alternatives. These are some of the actual comparisons.
Form
Four generated interiors were refined in Blender, then explored through filled, translucent, and planetary forms.
The question: can you still read the form when it is small and moving?
Open the 45-study collectionA recorded snapshot of the studies. The game itself currently uses glass beads.
Motion
The same two springs. The same four incoming beads. Only the first spring’s direction changes.
Active seconds in one simulated wave. Selected after trying all eight directions; this does not measure musical quality or player preference.
Open the full replaySound
Hear the up-left arrangement through two sound designs. The events are the same and the audio levels are matched.
The question: which contacts can you recognize, and which sounds become tiring?
The experimental treatment changes several sound properties. It remains separate from the playable game.
4 beads · 32 spring kicks · 5 impacts
Change the sound design at the same point in the recording.
More about this comparisonAn experiment, still developing
Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game is the starting point. This project takes glass beads literally and explores relationships between movement, material, and sound.
The prototype has four levels using glass beads, springs, and walls. The artwork and sound studies investigate what comes next. The design and an earlier greybox predate Tripothon; the site records the work continuing through the event.
Sources, tools, and earlier work