We’re still working on getting our full website up and running. Niki aims to explore and expand the boundaries of games and interaction and focuses heavily on researching and developing new forms of play and meaningful interactivity. Niki Smit is co-founder of Monobanda, a Utrecht based game company that develops playful interactive experiences. Your main goals are to survive and find the exit. He finds it weird to talk about himself in the third person and lives in Dublin, Ireland. Welcome to the Deep: Pixelart platformer indie game located deep inside caves. When not working on DEEP, he is head lecturer of the BA in Game Design at DIT, works as game designer and producer with bitSmith Games and likes to tweet. Owen is a game designer, teacher and human. GameCity Festival, Nottingham, October 2014ĬULT Festival, Venice, November 2014 About the Developers Prototype Festival, Dublin, October 2014 Playful Arts Festival, Den Bosch, June 2014 You can watch the development in progress here. Owen and Niki are now collaborating together to build a new version of DEEP.
Niki’s art and ideas complemented and expanded the vision of the game. In the summer of 2014, after showing the work at Playful Arts Festival in Den Bosch, he was introduced to Niki. He was surprised to find out that there was a lot of interest in the concept and began developing it for a wider audience. He sought to create a digital zen garden, a place he could escape to at the end of a tough day to unwind and relax. For the last 15 years, he has used meditation and breathing techniques to help manage these problems. Get to know each other even better with Lets Get Deep, a card game for couples As each other ice breakers or deep or deeper questions to find out more. Like many people, Owen has suffered from anxiety and bouts of depression. When the Oculus Rift first came out, Owen began making a personal meditation aid to help him in his practice. It can be played for therapeutic or aesthetic reasons, and does not require the use on arms, legs or hands. Jake must find a way to help his family whilst learning to become a man. A run of bad luck leaves the family homeless and Sarah becomes seriously ill. The player takes on the role of Jake, a boy in his late teens who lives with his mother, Lucy and his sister Sarah. The environment's layout gently encourages the player to slow their breath, to sink deeper and relax. Deeper is the first independent game produced by Thundorn Games.
This information is fed back to the player in a variety of visual cues, intimately linking their consciousness and breath. The custom controller measures diaphragm expansion in order to sense deep breathing. Take a DEEP breath and soar beneath the waves to meet ancient gods and strange lifeforms. Shortly after that, the upgraded AlphaGo Zero crushed the original bot by using deep reinforcement learning to master the game. Allow the game to sweep you into its relaxing embrace as it teaches you yogic breathing techniques that can relieve stress, anxiety and mild depression. Book arts, artists books, artists books, artist books, and fine press editions are among the many names for what Sara Press produces under the imprint. Players don the Oculus Rift and the custom DEEP controller to explore a beautiful and mysterious undersea world. You rise up and glide across the seascape.ĭEEP is a meditative and psychoactive VR game that is controlled by breathing. The lights around you glow and intensify.
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