Description:
THOTcon is the second largest hacker conference in the world held in Chicago. In this project I lead a team of designers through developing software for the interactive badges each attendee wears as both their ticket and a puzzle to unlock additional features. We created several games, toys, and puzzles that were all held within the badges. Each of the programs were designed to be hacked and modified by those in attendance.
Take-away:
There is a unique set of affordances that you must consider when designing for a game/toy that is created to be hacked. We had to carefully lay clues and secrets both within the code and in the hardware itself.
