Digitalympics

2024

Digitalympics is an athletics game for PlayStation that invites you to take part in a 110-metre hurdle race using your fingers. In the distant future, human beings have evolved from using touch screens on their mobile phones to take on the shape of giant fingers. As the Neo-Paris Olympic Games, inaugurated by Anne Hidalfinger, get underway, you'll have to take on your opponent as a digital athlete in a fingertastic competition.

Digitalympics was created as part of an Eniarof on the theme of the Olympic Games, a subject I had already explored in a more controversial way with Hamster Olympics . This time, I drew heavily on Track & Field released on PlayStation in 1996 (a rather soporific game with button-mashing gameplay), as well as the lesser-known Athlete Kings, which benefited from Sega's expertise in arcade games. I came up with my own version, enriched with an absurd dystopia, to tackle the issue of doomscrolling and the attention economy associated with the use of smartphones and other tablets.