Artholomew Video's Stream Challenge (2022)

A series of creative challenges performed over Twitch stream. While the streamer tackles the challenges, viewers provide prompts for them to work with over Twitch Chat.

The Crowd Creativity Show! (2022)

The award-winning Artholomew Video adapted for the live stage. Alistair collaborates live with the audience in a cavalcade of reading, drawing, improv and dance challenges guided by a constant stream of input from spectators' phones!

The Incredible Playable Show (2016)

An interactive video game comedy show where you, the audience, take to the stage! Become human buttons, take on the Power Rangers, zap each other with barcode scanners, and play Pac-Man using inflatable toys. Or sit back, and watch your friends literally become cogs in a hilarious machine!

The Scrambled Eggman Show (2018)

World-renowned genius Doctor Eggman has been hacking Sonic the Hedgehog games in order to create his very own gameshow! Take part in bizarre challenges where data is corrupted as you play, and win delicious hard-boiled prizes!

The Book Ritual (2018)

Talk to a real-world book of your choice through the computer screen. Vandalise it, personalise it, and put its pages through a shredder in a story tackling guilt, responsibility and personal growth.

Codex Bash (2015)

A code-breaking installation with four big buttons, running around and a whole heap of paper clues!

Tap Happy Sabotage (2014)

A party game for 2-20 players on one giant touchscreen, where foul play is encouraged!

Dash & Bash (2014)

Four player foul play with four monitor and four big buttons! Find your card and bash it before your opponents, in challenges of observation, reflexes and agility!

Pawns (2019)

A chessboard of 44 by 44 squares, with only pawns and kings on each side. Set up as an installation, and adapted into interactive performance pieces on Twitch.

Journey to Lavender Town (2019)

A 27-hour video piece about a world succumbing to entropy. Created using a hacked version of Pokémon Red and presented as a still life.

One Hundred Symbols (2020)

One Hundred unique books made from one hundred symbols. One of these symbols appears exactly once in the entire book.

Video Gallery (2021)

An HTML page designed to recreate the experience of stumbling upon my video pieces in a gallery. Features my art videos and interactive streams from 2019-2021 played simultanously worldwide.

Slamjet Stadium (2013)

Futuristic football on hoverbikes, for two players on a single iPad. Slamjet Stadium is the future's deadliest sport, so physical contact and cheating are encouraged outside the screen too!

Greedy Bankers vs The World (2011)

Expanding on its iPhone predecessor, Greedy Bankers vs The World adds in shared-tablet play against human and AI opponents. There is one massive twist: players can reach over to their opponent's screen and steal their gems. Now it's your turn to get greedy!

Greedy Bankers (2011)

A fast-paced puzzle game that's easy to learn and filled with optimisation strategies and humour. Group gems together and cash them in for big bucks to meet the banker's demands, but watch out for sneaky robbers who'll scupper your plans!

Beyond Screens: Alternative Controller Show (2021)

A monthly interview show for the IndieCade Twitch channel, co-hosted with Tatiana Vilela dos Santos.

Alternative-controller game creators are interviewed live, looking back on their creative histories and giving viewers a look inside their works-in-progress.

The Incredible Playable Podcast (2021)

A series of podcasts exploring the esoteric themes that inspire work like The Incredible Playable Show and The Book Ritual.

Subjects for discussion include clowns, game-hacking, Man Ray and performance art.

Emulators for art and performance (since 2016)

A variety of experiments with classic game emulation. These became art videos, live stage shows, and eventually the Magic Box, which allows Sonic the Hedgehog to be played with a range of unpredictable gameplay effects.

Go! Power Team! (2015)

An experimental game for a theatre space, where four morphsuit-clad Power Rangers become human controllers. The game gives the Power Rangers weird and wonderful actions to perform with the audience. Meanwhile the players must try to operate a game where the controllers literally have minds of their own!

Mega Co-operator (2016)

A custom controller for Sega Mega Drive, where four buttons are shared between four players, but what the buttons do is randomised every 30 seconds.

DIY Brain Surgeon (2014)

Played, using an Arduino-controlled muscle stimulation unit, this game simulates performing brain surgery on yourself, and requires the player to keep a steady hand in spite of their own muscles twitching unpredictably. Created at the Cité des Sciences in Paris.

Homunculus (2017)

A game for two players, plus one a human in a morphsuit. Players must touch the Homunculus in various parts of its body to find pleasure and pain points. Created at Lyst Summit 2017, it touches on physicality, non-verbal communication and dehumanisation.

Being There (2017)

An participatory audio exprience for two people. Following a description from a recording, they must act out instructions directed to them by the narrator. Together, they perform the journey of a couple in a relationship, but each participant has a different perspective on what that relationship is. Created at Lyst 2017.

339 Years 339 Movies (2022)

It started out with a tweet: 1 like = 1 favourite film from each year, working forwards from 2023

It got 339 likes.

I imagined what films I would enjoy centuries into the future as the world changed around me. It's honestly one of my favourite pieces of creative writing.