B.U.T.T.O.N.

Copenhagen Game Collective | Party | Released 2010

In developing B.U.T.T.O.N., our goal has been to push gameplay “outside” the computer – to make a physical game that just happens to use a computer. We figure that, in a loud party setting, most people just want to laugh and horse around together, not futz with some complex game system.

What players are “allowed” to do is heavily dependent on the specific people playing. The computer does not monitor whether players take a full six steps back, or if each player really completed five pushups, etc. This is not a shortcoming, but a feature. Rather than let the computer carry out all the rules, the players are themselves responsible for enforcing (or not enforcing) the rules. On this account we were inspired by old folk games and board games, which encourage improvisational play and “house rules.”

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