GVN is a world designer with a background in cinema and procedural storytelling. Alumni of Fabrica, the Jan Van Eyck Academie, the Sandberg Instituut and lecturer on real-time CG at Goldsmiths University, London and Staedelschule, Frankfurt.
Arthur Röing Baer is co-founder of Trust, a tech and arts online community & space in Berlin. Previously head of growth at FOAM. Postgrad Design research program, Strelka Institute, Moscow. MA, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam.
GVN and Arthur Röing Baer are the co-founders of Moving Castles, a game design studio researching and developing Autonomous Worlds and on-chain games. They have published influential essays on world building and online community governance like “Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses” and “Three Eras of World Generation”. The studio is currently composed of PWR, Manus Nijhoff and Agnes Cameron.
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Excerpt - Twitch live stream - 2022 - 45 minutes
The video is an excerpt from the New Models Collective Avatar Creation stream. In the stream, Moving Castles experimented with the traditional gaming trope of the character creator by recontextualizing it into a multiplayer chat experience and live stream format. Players were able to input commands through the Twitch chat, which would change the appearance of the created avatar. Everyone could freely decide to change a piece or move the camera around, but only through organization and coordination of their inputs could they lock one piece in place and move to the next.
The video highlights the challenges that arise when hundreds of players attempt to interact with a single interface. It raises the question of what governance tools are necessary to develop for these novel types of collective gaming experiences .
The excerpt is followed by a cinematic cut of the avatar created with a commentary by Carly Busta and Lil Internet (New Models) and Arthur Röing Baer (Trust).