Project Details
The False Unlimited is an interactive digital poem/art-game
hybrid exploring the dangers inherent in the death of truth in political/social
language. Each level explores a different political narrative: climate change,
environmental/wildlife protection, corruption, tax cuts for the rich,
divisive/attacking language and tyrannical tendencies. This entire work explores text as discomfort as its central theme.
The work allows readers/players to explode and re-contextualise the horrid,
uncomfortable, painful texts of politicians.The player/reader shoots timer based
explosive spheres at phrases and language used by
political leaders to mislead the public and fog scientific and factual narratives. The goal of each
level is to throw the spheres, so when the timer ends, the player/reader explodes
that phrase.
In essence the False Unlimited is a visceral and cathartic digital poetry game
that allows those who have found the past three years (2017-2020) maddening,
frustrating and shocking the chance to explode those frustrations and
break apart dangerously and intentionally false narratives/language.
Published & exhibited
ICIDS 2020, Art Exhibition at the 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling,
”Texts of Discomfort”, digital writing exhibition, Bournemouth University, UK.
Nelson, Jason. 2021. ”Aim, fire and explode: the dangerous languages of the false unlimited”. Bind 1 in Texts of discomfort. Play Story Press: Pittsburg, PA.
Select documentation
Playable version: https://dpoetry.com/unlimited/