Overview

‘Distributed Mind Test’ or DMT, is a cooperative multiplayer game, unfolding at the limit experience of human cognition. Players become decentralised impulses of thought embodied within a non-human creature, that moves, acts, and thinks in ways existing outside the exclusionary boundaries of the individualized human mind.

Players enter a world seemingly exhausted all human life. Following humanity’s exit, AI-controlled creatures populate the game world, some of which are aquatic beings that have found ways to exist outside of water due to scarcity. Others resemble the tripedal creature. They hide behind transdimensional portals and speak a language concocted upon gathered sounds of now-extinct organisms. Learning their moves allows players to open up new ways of playing/dancing with them, creating cross-dimensional games of hide-and-seek.

A fractured storyline is presented through ‘memory boxes’ that contain journalistic entries, archaeological records, and conspiratorial dispatches, weave an inquiry into the historical separation of the human mind and the world that lies beyond it.

All players control the creature simultaneously as multiple mind-states that collectively conjure a playground of radical cohabitation between human and non-human conceptions of being and becoming.