States of Play: Roleplay Reality

2018
FACT Liverpool
Identity and game
Playable Visual Identity of an Exhibition.

Exploring how the roles we play expose our true realities, this exhibition design has been captured and composed into a video game reflecting critical views on the entertainment industry. No longer understood merely as a place of escape, the game realm and the ‘real world’ have collided. The roles we play both on-and-offline reflect and shape our realities. Roleplay Reality considers how roleplay can be used as a tactic to move beyond real-world power structures.

  • States of Play: Roleplay Reality: a real-world figure, purple letters cut a pixel hole to an astronaut in the game realm
  • States of Play: Roleplay Reality: black exhibition banner, purple letters cut a pixel hole to an astronaut in the game realm
  • States of Play: Roleplay Reality: exhibition poster, purple letters cut a pixel hole to a bald CGI face marked 'SURVIVOR'
  • States of Play: Roleplay Reality: exhibition poster, purple letters cut a pixel hole to a gunner wading a video game marsh
  • States of Play: Roleplay Reality: purple letters cut a pixel hole to a low-poly video game realm of white lilies and animals