AUTO(E)SCAPE

It was featured in the 1999 Zurich exhibition Die Schweizer Autobahn, Nicolas Faure’s Autoland, and Another Man magazine mastheads.

The last fact is what made us actually go with this font, because it sparked alot of ideas which we both saw as opportunities for this project.

We both worked on two moodboards where we added anything that inspired us through the font and it’s history. Old Racing games and retro aesthetic were prominent visual language which showed itself while making and analyzing our Moodboards. This is what sparked the idea of wanting to create a racing based game for the storyboard/performance. We then thought of different concepts which would support our idea, a highway, carrera and more.. We decided to order small racing cars and stage a car chase between a criminal and a police car. After knowing what our overall setting would be, we moved on to actually making our own game out of it.

As soon as we defined which happenings actually effect what and how they could look like we defined a definite timeline and designed the corresponding screens/frames and performance setting for it.

The performance part was pretty clear from the start, it would have to be a racing “track” where the cars could move enough for it to be a chase and with obstacles to make it interesting to play and watch. The obstacles should be things you could see driving around places so not necessarily a “street object”. We tried different things but the container and street cones proved themselves best for color detection as well which we relied on for this approach. Since we relied heavy on color detection our color scheme uses high contrast colors such as , blue, green, yellow and red as the main colors. The red cones cam with the cars we ordered, we 3D printed all the yellow obstacles after and glued them onto our grey cardboard surface which served as the arena/street.