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Violence Ménagère

Violence Ménagère is a set of three games using alternative controllers to explore a form of invisible violence experienced by many women on a daily basis, particularly within…

CTRL+BAND

In a dictatorship obsessed with morality, games deemed “woke” are banned and circulate on the black market. In CTRL+Band, you play as an activist smuggler who hides and…

Madame Cabane

Madame Cabane is an installation using alternative controllers that presents itself as a simple children’s rhythm game. Play in harmony with your friends by activating the cabin’s toys…

Let Me Watch

Let Me Watch (previously known as Do Touch That Dial) is a horror game played with an actual CRT TV. You’re trying to watch the lottery results but…

Dumpster Dining

Run a Raccoon diner by digging into a real-world trash can. Raccoons will place orders and you must search the garbage to find the request. Some items in…

Folding Breeze

An endless runner (flyer?) played played with a custom hand fan and box fan pairing in order to reproduce the feel of wind. Created by: Arthur Gan Stuff…

The Cap Circus

The Cap Circus is a unique retro-style arcade game that uses plastic bottle caps as its controller. Bottle caps you flick in the real world appear on the…

Cooked Intel

A covert spy game where players use a rice cooker controller to gather intel in a bustling Chinese restaurant. Decode messages, create distractions, and navigate undercover operations—all while…

Frame Shifters

Frame Shifters is a game played on an upside-down bicycle. It is meant to evoke memories of being a kid and the tacticle sense of running a hand…

Breaking News

Inspired by the days when a good smack on a glitchy TV screen seemed to fix everything, Breaking News is a chaotic interactive adventure where hitting the TV doesn’t…

Lettuce race

Lettuce race is a two players racing game played with salad spinners on a LED strip. The faster you spin the salad, the faster you will go, but…

YOGAÏE

Bounce and jump to destroy yoga! YOGAÏE is an infinite scrolling game in which you have to destroy yoga position by jumping on them while sitting and bouncing…

The Competitive Waffle Game

A competitive 1 vs 1 alternative control game that uses actual waffle irons as a means to out cook/eat your opponent before your table overflows with waffles. Created…

Channel Death

Channel: Death is an installation-based digital escape room where players use a vintage television remote and old-fashioned pen and paper to cooperatively solve puzzles, complete minigames, and thwart the…

Gilliam’s Great Escape

Gilliam’s Great Escape is about playing golf with a fish. Except you’ll be playing it with a toaster controller – the perfect tool for launching things. Push and…

Metapong

The Metapong serie is an attempt to transgress the playing mechanics of the ping-pong game by creating a hybridization between the inert table of sport and mechanical systems…

Furbtroller

A fully functional Furby “themed” controller. Just jam your thumbs on the eyeballs and mouth and wiggle them around. Created by: Chad Etzel Stuff used: – Xbox Controller…

Call the Forest

Call the Forest (Haloo, kuuleeko metsä?) is an interactive installation made for a children’s touring exhibition. The installation invites exhibition visitors to call a constructed forest scenery, offering…

Post-apocalyptic Weaving

Post-apocalyptic Weaving consists of a serie of loom prototypes out of the mechanical and electronic parts of discarded devices. Created by: Kati Hyyppä & Emma Wood Stuff used:…

Buy! Sell!

Buy! Sell! is a fast-paced multi-player stock trading game that uses analog telephones as game controllers. Watch a terminal full of charts, graphs and breaking news and make…

Fisher Price Xbox Controller

A toy fisher price controller turned into a functional Xbox controller. The Fisher Price Xbox Controller can do anything a standard controller can do, while still making all…

Yolk’s On You

A low-tech alt ctrl at home game made for the A MAZE AT HOME alt ctrl jam! To play, you need to slide your mouse across a long…

Good Soup

Grab a pair of chopsticks, a gamepad and get ready to eat some weird virtual noodles (also includes danger noodles). Good Soup was made in 2 days for…

Tie Simulator

A very serious game about tying a tie. This game requires you to hold your keyboard in front of your chest (like if it was a tie). Button…

Rollercars

Flip the mouse around, press the wheel down and drag the mouse as you would for a toy car. Then release and steer with arrow keys to see…

Trackball Driver Installation Disk

Made for the A Game By Its Cover 2020 Game Jam, Trackball Driver Installation Disk is a game designed to be players with the cutting edge trackball controller…

Pregnancy Test Doom

An electronic pregnancy test gutted and hacked in order to play Doom. Created by : Foone Stuff used : -electronic pregnancy test shell -tiny CPU -keyboard Find out more Yesterday…

Push 2

Push 2 is a side scroller game in wich the player use a sequencer as a controller. In this game you play a little spaceship that must collect…

Bluster Blunder

Bluster Blunder is an absurdist racing game using modified Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges that players blow into to advance their character. The visual source material was generated with…

A.B.C. (Already Been Chewed)

A.B.C. (Already Been Chewed) is a game about chewing gum played with a gum-covered controller while chewing gum. Don’t forget to leave your gum on the controller when…