A downloadable game for macOS

Play Tic Tac Toe. Improve your handwriting. Draw a picture. All with a very floppy pen!

Made for an "ABCedarium" talk at the Museum of Modern Art, in conjunction with the exhibition Pirouette

Updated 6 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsmacOS
Release date 34 days ago
AuthorTriangles in Space / Colleen Macklin
GenreSimulation
Tags3D, Drawing, First-Person, floppy, weird, writing
Average sessionA few minutes
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
MultiplayerLocal multiplayer
Player count1 - 2

Download

Download
Floppy_Pen_Win.zip 84 MB
Download
Floppy-Pen-mac.zip 94 MB
Version 1 6 days ago

Install instructions

For Mac Players (intel and apple silicon machines): after you unzip the game file, right-click or control-click the icon and select "open" to play.

You might need to grant permission to open the app in your system settings. Here's how:

  1. On your Mac, choose Apple menu

     > System Settings, then click Privacy & Security in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)

    Go to Security, then click Open.

  2. Click Open Anyway.

    This button is available for about an hour after you try to open the app.

  3. Enter your login password, then click OK.

Development log

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This lovely experiment really shows the possibilities of kinaesthetic pleasure that can arise from simply eschewing the “automatic” simplicity of drawing directly at the location of the cursor. Friction is magic!