Benoit Espinola

Traveler’s Video Game - 2009 - is a project which is currently under development. I am appending a GPS receptor to a portable video game device in order to link the player’s speed in the physical world to the rhythm of the game.

This creates an immersive form of displacement, which is transposed from the physical world to the virtual one. The player needs to keep moving in order to play the game. A more elaborate version of the device will be able to store a map of the player’s city. The player will follow a path through the city in order to complete a game level, providing the device with a travel dimension.

I will probably make a first prototype of the device for a RIM Blackberry Bold 9000.