AN INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE TO AWKWARD MOMENTS
By HOLLY GRAMAZIO (AU) 2018
An Instructional Guide to Awkward Moments is a booklet filled with rules for short social games exploring different aspects of intimacy. Some of these games relate to familiar moments in everyday life, from the eye contact we make with a stranger on a train to the experience of listening to a friend tell someone a story that we've heard many times before. Other games explore the directions that intimacy might take in the future — how would we feel about different types of social interaction with a robot, or what would a long-distance relationship with someone on Mars be like?
BIO
Holly is an Australian game designer based in London, working with Sophie Sampson under the name Matheson Marcault to use game design to engage people with places and ideas, creating site-specific playful experiences and games that encourage exploration and creativity from their players. Holly is also the director of Now Play This, a festival of experimental game design that runs at Somerset House as part of London Games Festival.