Digital poet builds world’s largest science fiction game

It's X Files meets HP Lovecraft - an interactive science fiction whodunit on a digital canvas that was itself considered science fiction only five years ago.
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Part video game, part puzzle, part electronic literature and all-interactive, Cryptext invites you to uncover the details behind a secret government program building advanced alien and supernatural technologies.

And it can be played only on the world’s largest interactive, digital display space, QUT’s The Cube.

‘It was a real challenge, as an artist, to create interactive artwork for a truly unique space,’ said Nelson, by day a net art and electronic literature lecturer from Griffith University College of Art.

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Kate Haggman
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Kate Haggman is media officer at Queensland University of Technology.