The game is rigged, part 4 The premiere night marked the beginning of what would become one of the most fulfilling weeks of our lives. We met so many wonderful people, received an overwhelming amount of love, and had conversations that we'll probably remember for a very long time. The exhibition was almost never empty throughout the week, and every day brought new reactions we hadn't expected. Some of our favourites: We had quite a few people become emotional to the point of

The game is rigged, part 3 Everything was going according to plan. Let's not forget that the entire concept, illustration, animation and sound editing had been created by just Jolin and Lea, powered almost entirely by caffeine and their shared delusion. Then the premiere started getting very, very close. The installation was scheduled just one day before opening, and having never done anything like this before, panic slowly started kicking in. Would it actually look good? Wou

The game is rigged, part 2 Spoiler alert: our project got selected. We were jumping up and down all afternoon then at night we couldn’t sleep thinking “How are we going to pull off 3 different video-games, with their own aesthetic and their own mechanisms, in 2 months?!” Some of the initial decisions we made: The games should not be similar to existing video games. We wanted the games to have their own distinctive look, and not rely on well-known aesthetics and nostalgia with

The game is rigged part 1 We can start by saying that we had never done something on this scale before. We knew we wanted to keep talking about gender inequality, but also find a way to involve people more directly in the experience. We landed on video games because they work on a very familiar promise: with enough effort and persistence, you succeed. We wanted to turn that logic upside down, because for many women the odds are already stacked against them from the beginning.