I’ve been working towards bringing Black Tonic back almost since we finished the first run of shows back in 2009. That’s one of the reasons I’m so excited that we’ve finally made that happen in 2015. As the years ticked by, and I gained some critical distance from the original production, something became clear to […]
Some discussions with the show’s writer Clare Duffy helped to clarify our intentions for this re-worked scene: how we want the characters to be read; how we want the audience to feel; where the scene needs to get us to by the end. Now we needed to find or create a suitable game mechanic to […]
With the basic game mechanic selected for the re-worked scene, we were able to move onto how to technically realise this. The task is to build a system that will sense the placement of a playing card onto the table at one of the points of the clock face, and trigger the playing of an […]