MIND THE GAP
MNL///Express Studio 2023
'Mind the Gap' is a VR experience puzzle game, enabling players to utilise a hand-capture interactive system to explore a virtual underground cabin.
About concept, We tried to discuss identification in the network context. Nowadays, people might be influenced by Internet collectivism unconsciously.
Because of irresponsible anonymous participation,
non-verifiable information and echo chambers in social media, online communities might manipulate the members, which is similar to a powerful cult.
We want to make people rethink those phenomena and deal with them.
As for our scene setting, the underground serves as a metaphor for the internet. The public space of traffic is where we access society,
encountering daily scenes with strangers, similar to the internet. Through various media channels, it can effectively portray the backdrop of cult information.
Mind the Gap is an experimental and critical hand-capture VR game which allows people to go through a process of being gradually bewitched by a cult,
and finally, face a test of whether the player can escape from this trap. This demo has been designed for our final project ‘Cryptic Enclave’ as test version.