Freeplay Independent Games Festival Awards 2024: Finalist (Non-Digital Game Award)
Rainbow Paths is a series of installations that transforms the ground into modular and site-specific playscapes. Each activation invites children, families, and adults to play the mini-games embedded into the installation and follow the colourful branching paths.
The mini-games encourage the public to play, sing, dance, clap, listen, and observe their way through the installation, searching for hidden objects and noticing the environment along the way. Each marker is socially-distanced, with the game’s rules written on each marker.
No props or devices are needed to play the games. Simply bring along a playful mindset, pick a starting point, and let your imagination guide you through the branching paths.
Rainbow Paths have been commissioned and installed in the following forms and locations:
- Rainbow Bird Playground – Bunjil Place Plaza
- Rainbow Laneway – Degraves St (as part of Moomba Festival 2021)
- Rainbow Paths – 4 Ballarat St, Brunswick (as part of the Assemble Papers Mind the Gap Party)
- Rainbow Paths – State Library Victoria (as part of Playable City Melbourne)
- Rainbow Paths: Library Edition – Elizabeth St Pop-Up Library
- Rainbow Paths: Dinosaur Edition – Perth Cultural Centre
- Rainbow Paths: Love Edition – Somerset House, London (as part of Now Play This 2023)
- Rainbow Paths: Music Edition – Melbourne Recital Centre (as part of Music Play 2024)
This project was created in collaboration with Chad Toprak. Watch a video trailer of the project.
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