Welcome to Digitaland

Welcome to Digitaland

Digitaland seeks to utilize gamification as a metaphor. We have noticed a trend of digital interaction, where based on the data and information received about us as users and individuals, the internet now has agency to display and evaluate us; 

We live two separate lives simultaneously. That of the physical, consisting of our motions, speech, sight, etc., and that of the digital - of clicks, typing, swiping, and data input. One follows our physical action, and our digital action constructs the other. To project this to our context, which is more “you”, or rather, more human? Are there physical human-like non-humans, or digital non-humans?

We begin as a digital entity, trying to distinguish itself from a typical bot based on the data it receives or provides. How does one know that you are a human user? Not only that, a “law-abiding” user? The player will seek to climb the tower, gain deeper access to the cloud, maintain credit, and collect resources to become known as a human.

Created by
Joseph Wu, Jason Leo, Gabriel Lam 
at Harvard Graduate School of Design