https://stranger.video is up!
To recap, the way the game works is:
- You're paired with a stranger.
- No video is shown if the game can't detect a face.
- All video is automatically cropped to show just the face.
- No audio, no text chat, just video.
- The feed is cut as soon as one of you blinks.
Depending on who you are, you might interpret this as "an online staring contest" or as "weird art about the fleeting nature of human connection." Or as something else! Your interpretation is (probably) valid.
I had a ton of fun building it and I'll be playing it off and on for most of the day. I'm going to submit it to GDC's Experimental Games Workshop although I have no idea if it's a good fit. And I'm really really excited to build some other stuff in this space - I think there's so much more that you can do.
I wrote a little more about the game and why i made it on my blog. Also if you've got a physical space that you want to install this in lmk, I'd love that :o