top of page
In this game, Money-Driven FishTank Game (2023), the fishtank and the club converge into one labyrinth where getting home, past many kill-on-contact underwater creatures and a nearly impossible-to-get-away-from shark is the goal. The avatar in this game is tired, coded to sit down constantly, and the player has to press the space bar to force her back up. The game is made more difficult by the day/night cycle: programmed to go through day/night every 15 seconds, and it can get hard to see at night. Average play time is 15 minutes.
Little Darlings, sick, 2024-ongoing, Average play time: 15 minutes. This is a game that emerged from an archive of strip club signage and ephemera from the pandemic. It is a video game built, coded, and designed in Roblox Studio, the popular children’s gaming platform with many possibilities for in-game glitches and controversies related to strip clubs and sex clubs as they continue to appear on the platform despite constantly hiring moderators to get them deleted. Every few seconds a red screen flashes with the text “FROZEN AND YOUR CLOTHES ARE ON THE FLOOR!” as a way to think through affective workers during police raids.
(Made in collaboration with Elijah Ober for Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 2023)
An Ode to the Exit Sign thinks through the interpersonal vs. systemic issues sex workers face; the avatar walks through a long, damask and gold chandeliered hallway based on the one at the Ritz-Carlton (a client favorite) and a text-fable unfolds as the avatar keeps walking that reveals that the worker is done with trying to get her relationships to understand her work and marries her work instead, despite having to wear her wig that hurts her head the rest of her life. At the end of the game is a bug I haven’t fixed: gold fishes clone and duplicate around her, follow her, and sometimes they clone too much. When this happens, she flies into the starry sky, stuck hanging there. But sometimes, they enclose her in a hug, leading to a red 70% opacity sign filling the screen and reads, “THE END, GOOD WORK AND LOVE HARD!” which kills the avatar and puts her back to the beginning of the game again. Average play time: 5 minutes.
bottom of page