Monstermachine

Monstermachine is a VR game I made with a group of friends for Project Vrij 1, inspired by our experiences of the Monsterkabinett in Berlin. We combined it with another experience in Berlin; fighting with an infuriating ticketmachine to get a trainticket. In Monstermachine you desperately try to get a ticket from a ticketmachine that is slowly turning into a disgusting fleshy creature. We tried to give the player a sense of morbid curiosity; can I still press the button even though it has changed into an eyeball? Can I still press the lever even though it is a tentacle now? Can I finally get my ticket by cutting the monster open and ripping out its heart? It is disgusting, but you want to keep playing to see what happens next.

Monstermachine is a VR game! So you get to experience the full monster a little closer than you like. This also allows us to pull a fun trick. When the monster has changed we hold something that feels nasty in front of the VR glasses, so that if you touch the monster again you will actually feel something disgusting. For example, when the lever changed into a tentacle we held a wet towel in place, so the player would see a tentacle and feel a wet towel. We got some good screams from people not expecting that.

The Team

• Me :)

• Noortje Goedhart

• Jorn Uffing

• Petra Wagemakers

• Pepijn van Luyken

• Ulani Kroon