Nuville

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Welcome to Nuville, a smart megapolis offering 90% of the earth’s population refuge from climate catastrophes.  Disguised as a cyberpunk tourist, you visit the temporary resurrection of 21st-century Toronto, a glitch of the smart systems leading the city's development. Led by courageous indigenous guides and curious prompts by allies, you broadcast your observations and record conversations until you spawn an AR portal. Peek inside and discover the chain reaction of changes your seemingly casual walk has brought to the future development of Nuville.

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NUVILLE was first hosted by Myseum of Toronto Intersections festival 2023, a city-wide celebration of art, culture, and community.  We continue to seek cultural partners to activate new Nuville play sessions.

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This game runs as a web app and features

• a retro terminal look
• a brutalist megapolis invading your present-day city
• GPS-tracked terrain generation
• a hack-able cyberpunk environment
• journaling game mechanics
• a sci-fi podcast co-written and animated by AI
• Prompts co-written with indigenous community member
• A view of the city playground you created in Augmented Reality

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Visit nuville.net to spray some mossy graffiti on your screen and to immerse yourself in the Nuville world. You can see previous players' hacks of the Megapolis cityscape and see them live whenever a play session is happening.

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This art game is led by Raaralab and imagefatale (Karen Vanderborght), with contributions from Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre and the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and Myseum Intersections Festival. 
Myseum’s Intersections festival is funded by the Government of Canada. Myseum of Toronto is made possible with the generous support of Diane Blake and Stephen Smith. 

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Shout out to Goodcodeclub (programming) and Halocline Trance (music) for their generous contributions.

07 Credits

Producer: Raaralab I website: https://www.krakxr.co/
Creative Director: Imagefatale (Karen Vanderborght) I IG:@imagefatale
Narrative/Game co-designer: Santo Aveiro-Ojeda I website: https://santoaveiro.com/ 
Programming: Chris Kim I website: https://goodcodeclub.com/
UX/UI Consultant: Priam Givord
Junior UX/UI Designer: Sabrina Curatan I website: https://sabrina-curutan.webflow.io/
Original Music: David Psutka I IG: @halocline_trance
Production Coordinator: Nevila Rebi
Community Partner: Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre I IG: @tocouncilfire, website: https://www.councilfire.ca/ 
Youth and social media coordination: Toronto Council Fire Youth Wellness Team