Thomas Newlands
Art & Technology - BFA
You Just Keep Falling, 2020, mobile game, dimensions variable
You Just Keep Falling is my first-person physics driven mobile game, drawing on the tactile relationship between the player and their phone. The game offers a way to explore psychosomatic sensations through a phone interface and interactive physics. Using touch gestures: pinching, dragging, swiping, and twisting, players pull their avatar’s ethereal body through fog-enveloped structures. Within a surreal landscape of narrow rock bridges and spiraling mountain precipices the player continually climbs and falls. Along the way the player might encounter strange conversational characters dwelling there.