Kevin Wong on the importance of anti-hierarchical creativity

Kevin Wong (he/they) is a game designer, producer, and scholar who has worked on projects as varied as Chambara, Lucah: Born of a Dream, and Manifold Garden. On this episode he recounts his experience as a student game designer and how anti-hierarchal art movements and Twitch Plays Pokemon inspired the apocalyptic photography game, Dear Future.

You can follow Kevin on Twitter @ThatKevinWong and keep up with Dear Future @DearFutureGame.

Kevin’s Inspiring Thing to Share
Umurangi Generation (ORIGAME DIGITAL, 2020)

Things Discussed
Chambara (team ok, 2017)
Dear Future (Dear Future Production Committee, 2021)
Manifold Garden (William Chyr, 2020)
Twitch Plays Pokemon
The Fluxus art movement
Exquisite corpse

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