#MANYLAND SKINS SKIN#

The skin associations in the game defines a player’s level of success. The obstacle entertainment kind of game is asking players to use bodies as props, to be controlled but to confront and interact.MANYLAND’s environment provides people an awesome space to experiment with playing but not fully playing, allows the talk show format to extend from game actions to conversations, and to extend from the talk show format to real world engagements. It does not really matter if viewers could see clearly what’s happening in the game in the background, since the gesture of gameplay for this episode serves as a special reminder to all: whatever happens in the digital could be truly ‘real,’ if we link it to those of the physical world and be critically engaged. The more complicated talk better ‘sit-’uates the often generic questioning and answering interactions in the game, while the use of this gameplay as a background ‘framed’ the real world conversation in a more omnipresent way. Those collisions are an intervention of the game within the host herself that are to be extended to the audience. Sometimes, interestingly, the pixelation of things and the glitching of the site provide a more real feeling than the relationships in real life that we seem to have. The host both playing (asking MANYLAND gamers ‘are you real’) and talking with a guest, is hereby creating intersections of reality formed by the juxtaposition of ‘real’ and digital conversations, and the collage of aesthetically-and-concept-matching visuals and sounds. This special episode brings viewers back to the same cozy yet eerie setting of the show, but with a gameplay of MANYLAND as a framed canvas backdrop. REAL talk REAL show is a live-streamed talk show that deals with the relationship between modern people in modern society.

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