Welcome to New Lux Plaza
(2018)
Project Notes
A vaporwave Star Fox 64 clone set in a shopping mall where you must earn "Luxbux" (the currency of the future) in order to take your lover (a sentient algorithm who works in high finance) on a nice date for once. Along the way you must dodge irate shoppers, shoot your way through annoying pop-up ads, and evade mall security- the latter of which takes the form of laser-equipped symbols of Greek antiquity. The art is a combination of things I made myself (like the pop-up ads and the enemies, which are cube primitives with a photo of my face mapped onto every side) and objects and images scavenged at random from the asset store, Google image search, and architectural/home design websites.
Funded by the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council.