Austen | Portfolio - terminal connection

For my final year of college, two of my best friends and I decided to take the minimum amount of class-units required to be enrolled full time to create time for our undergraduate thesis. In the last half of 2023, we made 9 game prototypes, each attempting to address a specific question or prompt through the medium of games. You can read about each of these on our blog: https://artgamesthesis.com/. In our final semester, we set out to make a game about hyperreality, and created terminal connection.

Everything for this thesis was co-authored.

The featured blog posts will give you context on what we worked on, and the headspace we were in for this thesis.

Featured Blog Posts

A three week prototype addressing hyperreality.

The Tower – 12/6/23Ascend to the top of the Tower and find the answer you seek. The game was made over the course of three weeks with the intention of making a a game about hyperreality.

The first prototype of terminal connection.

Aero-Dynamics – 2/9/24What were we trying to accomplish and what did we do to pursue the goals we set for ourselves? This is our first project for the second semester of this thesis. We ended 2023 with a prototype and a…

If you found any of the above interesting, I personally wrote an additional piece that connects to the idea of hyperreality. I will warn that it is less concrete than some of my work in games and is more about a specific lens that I've personally found helpful for engaging with hyperreality. It is also, moderately and necessarily, goofy.

Understanding Magicians as a Mechanism that Naturalises the SupernaturalAs Denizens of Hyperreality

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