Strata (Game)

The game will give each player their own route through the landscape. They will decide what to follow, what to pass by, and when to turn back. Some encounters will come from proximity: a voice carried along a walked route, an observation tied to a plant or fossil, an archival fragment encountered in the place it complicates. Others will remain elsewhere. The sequence will be made through movement rather than chosen from a menu.

We are using the playable prototype to tune the relationship among scale, distance, sound, and attention. Trail-camera records, field recordings, and other forms of nonhuman observation are part of that work. The aim is to let ecological thinking become experiential: knowledge arrives in relation to where you are, what you notice, and what you may have missed.