Manifest Your Dream Job Sleep Meditation
2025 · Experimental, Game · experimental arthouse game
A fly-on-the-wall, channel-surfing, magical-realism experience where a meditation session turns into a fever dream about the absent future we're told to visualize.
It samples meditation audios promising jobs and prosperity, then juxtaposes those affirmations against eerie reconstructions of everyday spaces, surveillance footage, and TV commercial archives, creating a dialectical image of a reality far from “dream”.
Digital Scavenging: using the debris of capitalism to critique itself.
The game is built almost entirely out of scavenged digital objects: CCTV livestreams and Internet Archive footage from around the world — factories, farms, casinos, liminal spaces, vintage TV commercials. The digital debris of late capitalism becomes the very language used to critique it.
Anti-Game
The game deliberately plays with expectations of the traditional gamer, through an apporach I call anti-game.
It borrows the grammar and clichés of traditional video games: tasks, collectibles, first-person interaction, the promise of progression, but intentionally withholds every payoff:
A gun never fires,
work-like tasks offer no reward,
and interactions leave you empty-handed.
The dopamine loop is initiated but never resolved, turning the gameplay itself into the statement: an unresolved tension the player is forced to sit inside.
A MAZE. Berlin 2026 Most Amazing Award [nomination]
Nominated for A MAZE. Berlin 2026 (Most Amazing), exhibiting 13–16 May,
with an invited talk “Counterfeit Games: Anti-game Approaches to Playable Experiences.”
Leftfield Collection, EGX 2026
Shown as part of the Leftfield Collection, EGX at MCM London Comic Con 22–24 May 2026
Featured on
Sidequest (Game criticism) Warpdoor (Experinmental game site)
- Role — Solo - research, design, development
- Tools — Unity, OpenCV
- Nomination — Most Amazing Award @ A MAZE./ Berlin 2026
- Recognitions — Leftfield Collection, EGX 2026