Our First Kiss

June 2020 - May 2021

Shown at the 2021 USC Games Expo
Part of the 2022 GDC Experimental Gameplay Workshop

*The film used in this gif of our gameplay footage is I Think I'm Gay by Matthew Chupack, used with permission.

My Role

Experience Summary

• Co-Producer
  • Used Trello to manage tasks, deadlines, and deliverables
  • Held weekly scrum meetings (agile development)
  • Designed, filmed & edited the game's trailer
  • In charge of outreach & gathering films and footage that feature queer and trans love, which were  featured in the game
• Audio Lead
  • Recorded & mixed sounds for the game
  • Supervised our lead composer
  • Audio implementation in Unity

​Tools Used

Logic Pro X
Unity
​Adobe Premiere
Trello
G Suite

• A queer, alternative-controller festival game
  • Two players sit (in person) on a sofa with pressure sensors
  • They either move toward each other, or move away
  • Players' actions on the sofa in real time are reflected by the silhouettes seen on screen
  • The game invites them to explore intimacy with each other, and asks if they will take the risk of being intimate in public
• Relies upon audience participation via phone or computer input
  • This part of our design has changed due to the antisocial nature of COVID quarantine
  • Instead of a typical festival game, the audience will interact via Twitch stream
  • They can send emoticons such as ":)" or ":/" and those emoticons will have an effect on the screen where the two players are
• The installation is a fundamentally queer experience: it explores the idea of claiming public spaces as queer
  • Do you risk outting yourself in public in order to show your partner affection? Or do you stay in the closet?

Check out our trailer below!