Tatiana Vilela DS

Game Designer / Maker of #altctrl #artgame
🛠️🕹 #HCI Educator+Researcher
D̴E̵STR̵O̴Y 🖱 B̵U̸̖͛RN ⌨️ Q̷U̷E̵S̵̈TIO̷N 🥄
More about my work on mechbird.fr
(she/her)

2024-08-19

If you missed it, we recently launched the altctrl@home game jam! A unique challenge where creativity meets unconventional controls👽🎮 Join us and let your imagination run wild!
itch.io/jam/altctrlhome2024

2023-10-25

‼️👩‍🏫Join me at
#KIKK festival tomorrow at 3.20 PM for a deep dive into the world of #altctrl #game and #interactive installations #design. I hope to see you there! 😊

🔗 More info here → kikk.be/kikk-for-pro/conferenc

2023-01-16

It's official, I will be at the @Official_GDC to show our new #altctrl #videogame at alt.ctrl.GDC 🥳
➡️
gdconf.com/news/here-are-outst

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2023-01-13

I compiled a list of 50+ autobiographical video games and will present them in this thread (it might be a great time to mute me!)

This list is far from being exhaustive, I just stopped searching because I felt I would never stop finding. ⬇️

Tatiana Vilela DS boosted:
Standplaats KrakówStandplaats_KRK
2023-01-13

Hell yeah, mechanical numpad.

a mechanical keyboard with a rotary phone dial in place of the numpad
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2023-01-06

Pour information, avec Guillaume Grandjean,
nous ferons une conférence sur la thématique "Jeux vidéo et architectures impossibles" le 12/01, 18H30 au musée des beaux-arts de Nancy, dans le cadre de l'exposition "Architectures impossibles" : musee-des-beaux-arts.nancy.fr/

2023-01-03

Teasing the #altctrl #videogame we're currently working on... 🛠️🕹️🐎🐮

2023-01-01

Let's kick off the new year with a video from the #altctrl show featuring @agAitcheson's interview on #IndieCade Beyond Screens. He discusses #playformances and other topics, and even performs "We Can't Paper Over This Forever" with the Twitch chat. → youtube.com/watch?v=XfH3ZFoeqp

2022-12-31

As most people are spending the holiday season with their friends and family, the #altctrl@home jam deadline was hard to meet for many. I extended it to January 27 ;) itch.io/jam/altctrlathome2022 Happy new year 🥳

2022-12-24

That moment when your name appears on the @Official_GDC newsletter ☺️ I'm gonna give a talk on #altctrl #gamedesign at #GDC23. Hope to see you there!

2022-12-14

And a bonus pic :)
mechbird.fr/contre-ciel

2022-12-14

Contre-ciel, the #playful #interactiveinstallation I made for my 1st solo exhibit in 2017 is currently playable in the southern Parisian suburb. Here is a short story the organizers made ⬇️ The exhibit will stay up for the next 2-3 months :)

2022-11-28

@Kjellhaften Awesome 😀

2022-11-28

Since 2020, I run the #altctrl at home jam on itch, a game jam dedicated to #videogames played by making a weird use of an ordinary controller. You can join the 2022 edition here → itch.io/jam/altctrlathome2022 🛠️🕹️🏠

2022-11-28

Every last WE of the month I publish a new vid about #altctrl. This one is about #alternativecontroller #videogames playable at home to open the 3rd edition of the ALT.CTRL AT HOME JAM!!! ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=Eos2Tgd1yg

2022-11-21

Ongoing exhibit→ Keyboard Landscaper, the music #altctrl #game I made during the pandemic is currently playable at the A MAZE. Pop up exhibit in Belgrade, Serbia thx to the Serbian Game Association, until Nov 25 ;)
Pics are courtesy of A MAZE's founder Thorsten & SGA
mechbird.fr/keyboardlandscaper

Keyboard Landscaper, a musical and visual toy made by Tatiana Vilela dos Santos and Olivier Drouet, exhibited in Belgrade, Serbia as part of an A MAZE. Pop up exhibit. In this game, your keyboard turns into a tone matrix: an electronic musical instrument inspired by Japanese artists Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori's Tenori-on. 
The picture shows a keyboard and a mouse on a silver table and a huge video projection on a wall featuring a painting's frame with a winter landscape.Keyboard Landscaper, a musical and visual toy made by Tatiana Vilela dos Santos and Olivier Drouet, exhibited in Belgrade, Serbia as part of an A MAZE. Pop up exhibit. In this game, your keyboard turns into a tone matrix: an electronic musical instrument inspired by Japanese artists Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori's Tenori-on. 
The picture shows two screens on the front displaying indie games and Keyboard Landscaper behind those. Keyboard Landscaper features a keyboard and a mouse on a silver table and a huge video projection on a wall featuring a painting's frame with a winter landscape.Keyboard Landscaper, a musical and visual toy made by Tatiana Vilela dos Santos and Olivier Drouet, exhibited in Belgrade, Serbia as part of an A MAZE. Pop up exhibit. In this game, your keyboard turns into a tone matrix: an electronic musical instrument inspired by Japanese artists Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori's Tenori-on. 
The picture shows a keyboard and a mouse on a silver table and two hands above the keyboard.Keyboard Landscaper, a musical and visual toy made by Tatiana Vilela dos Santos and Olivier Drouet, exhibited in Belgrade, Serbia as part of an A MAZE. Pop up exhibit. In this game, your keyboard turns into a tone matrix: an electronic musical instrument inspired by Japanese artists Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori's Tenori-on. 
The picture shows two people playing Keyboard Landscaper, one listening to the music coming from a headset and one playing on the Keyboard.
2022-11-21

I will often share pictures of my #game #exhibits. This one was last Saturday. Many kids played Dead Pixels in a huge media library called L'Echo in the southern Parisian suburb → mechbird.fr/deadpixels

Two kids and and one adult play Dead Pixels, a game by Tatiana Vilela dos Santos Olivier Drouet while two adults, a man and a woman, watch them.
A big screen displays a colorful geometric graphic composition. Players hold colorful joysticks mounted on a big white board covered with painter's palettes.A couple plays Dead Pixels, a game by Tatiana Vilela dos Santos and Olivier Drouet, while a man, a woman and a kid watch them. 
A big screen displays a colorful geometric graphic composition. Players hold colorful joysticks mounted on a big white board covered with painter's palettes.Two kids and a man play Dead Pixels, a game by Tatiana Vilela dos Santos and Olivier Drouet.
A big screen displays a colorful geometric graphic composition. Players hold colorful joysticks mounted on a big white board covered with painter's palettes.Three kids play Dead Pixels, a game by Tatiana Vilela dos Santos and Olivier Drouet.
A big screen displays a colorful geometric graphic composition. Players hold colorful joysticks mounted on a big white board covered with painter's palettes.
2022-11-17

@robinwobbles so cute <3

2022-11-16

Hi! Obviously I'm new here :) I've been making #altctrl #weirdgames for the past decade.
Here is my demoweirl → youtube.com/watch?v=ZYdsetng5k
And here are most of my works → mechbird.fr
#introduction

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