ENIGMA
STATION
︎ GAME IN DEVELOPMENT
︎RELEASE DATE: TBA
SINGLE PLAYER
THIRD PERSON
SCI-FI ADVENTURE
MADE WITH UNREAL ENGINE 5
AND HOUDINI
︎Press Kit
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Wishlist on Steam
In a far-flung future, humanity has taken to the stars, sending out enormous, living Seeds to preserve life in the cold, endless expanse of the cosmos. But one Seed, Enigma Station, has mysteriously vanished.
As the player, you venture on a mind-bending quest to unveil the truth behind the mysterious events at Enigma Station.
Immerse yourself in a lush, science fiction world, explore and discover the layers of deep future, solve environmental and spatial puzzles and uncover a story of intrigue and adventure.
In a far-flung future, humanity has taken to the stars, sending out enormous, living Seeds to preserve life in the cold, endless expanse of the cosmos. But one Seed, Enigma Station, has mysteriously vanished.
As the player, you venture on a mind-bending quest to unveil the truth behind the mysterious events at Enigma Station.
Immerse yourself in a lush, science fiction world, explore and discover the layers of deep future, solve environmental and spatial puzzles and uncover a story of intrigue and adventure.
SCREENSHOTS
SOLVE PUZZLES
EXPLORE
INVESTIGATE
DISCOVER THE STORIES
ORBITAL
FILM
SIMULATION
AI
FUTURE
Exhibition at Espacio Fundación Telefónica
In June 2023, Lifeforms were invited by the curatorial team at the Fundacion Telefónica in Madrid, Spain, to participate in Windows To The Future (Ventanas Al Futuro), an exhibition dedicated to exploring positive futures for humanity. Orbital is our response to this invitation.
Original Music by Jake Matatyaou
It is 2350 and humanity has embraced space.
Orbital, the first robot and human inhabited space settlement is built in the low equatorial orbit. It offers space tourism as means of reinforcing the overview effect.
An array of AIs and autonomous robots known as The Swarm mine asteroids, remove space debris and maintain solar power stations in earth’s orbit, beaming limitless free energy back onto the planet.
Earth becomes a garden and it is free from extractivism.
Interdependence is the new global and extra-global spiritual movement.
How will humanity change?
Orbital, the first robot and human inhabited space settlement is built in the low equatorial orbit. It offers space tourism as means of reinforcing the overview effect.
An array of AIs and autonomous robots known as The Swarm mine asteroids, remove space debris and maintain solar power stations in earth’s orbit, beaming limitless free energy back onto the planet.
Earth becomes a garden and it is free from extractivism.
Interdependence is the new global and extra-global spiritual movement.
How will humanity change?
Orbital propels viewers into a speculative journey, exploring two groundbreaking technologies: Space-Based Solar Power and Space Mining. Nestled in low earth orbit (LEO), Orbital marks the dawn of a new era where technology and cooperation redefine our relationship with the cosmos.
DISCOVERY
SIMULATION
INFLATABLE
FUTURE
A story about rooftops, airships, robots and inflatables is an installation exploring themes of worldmaking, ecology and artificial intelligence.
Born out of observations of an emerging rooftop culture of urban gardening and alternative lifestyles in downtown LA during the pandemic, Discovery is a simulation of The Airborne Collective, a radical environmental hacker group seeking to make a flourishing roofscape ecosystem and unleash hope and optimism in the face of looming ecological threat.
Soundscape by Jake Matatyaou
Press Kit
Film
The Airborne Collective
GAME
ECOLOGY
FUTURE
The Catalog is a top down simulation game that models the complex phenomena of entangled systems of TAC ecology and economy. This game presents a model, a toy world with its own internally coherent reality, a world where a player can exercise a fantasy of obsessive control and visibility, observe the systems, cut into objects to look inside, dissect the world like a surgeon, or better yet, as an architect. The Catalog presents a deep dive into life simulation games as a new format for architectural design, it includes a tech tree, it names all the human and non human agents, asks for their moods and current states, in order to instantiate a pluralistic image of a World.
Discovery Installation
SCI-Arc Gallery, October 2022
INFLATABLE/BLIMP/AIRSHIP
BEANBAGS
FLAG FOR THE AIRBORNE COLLECTIVE
Inflatable fabrication by:
Landmark creations
An inflatable is a great real life stand-in for a digital object.
It is mostly air, wrapped in a thin envelope.
A beanbag, on the other hand, presents itself as something amorphous,
unable to hold a definite shape, a kind of entropy wrapper.
The objects are emotionally active and might seem alive and breathing.
The flag of The Airborne Collective strangely embodies a yearning for a future that never was, and a nostalgia for a real place that vanished sometime in the late 20th century.
Flag generated by MidJourney Artificial Intelligence, with the prompt:
“flag design airborne collective eco symbol hacker group in style of anime neon colors”.
It is mostly air, wrapped in a thin envelope.
A beanbag, on the other hand, presents itself as something amorphous,
unable to hold a definite shape, a kind of entropy wrapper.
The objects are emotionally active and might seem alive and breathing.
The flag of The Airborne Collective strangely embodies a yearning for a future that never was, and a nostalgia for a real place that vanished sometime in the late 20th century.
Flag generated by MidJourney Artificial Intelligence, with the prompt:
“flag design airborne collective eco symbol hacker group in style of anime neon colors”.
Exhibition at SCI-Arc 2022, Photos by Charles White
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DAMJAN JOVANOVIC AND LIDIJA KLJAKOVIC LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
DAMJAN JOVANOVIC AND LIDIJA KLJAKOVIC LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.