Deviation Game
What Makes Our Expression Human?
An interactive installation exploring what makes human expression unique through gameplay that challenges perception and deviation.
Deviation Game is an interactive installation that explores the boundaries between human and machine expression. Through gameplay mechanics, participants discover what makes their movements, gestures, and expressions uniquely human.
Concept
The project examines deviation as a fundamental aspect of human expression—the subtle variations, imperfections, and spontaneous choices that distinguish authentic human behavior from algorithmic patterns.
Experience
Players engage with the installation through a series of challenges that test their ability to deviate from predicted patterns, revealing the creative and unpredictable nature of human expression.
Playthroughs & Coverage
Since launching on Steam and opening at Miraikan, Deviation Game has been played and streamed widely — by major YouTubers, VTubers, and on Niconico, in both English and Japanese. A few highlights:
Official & press
- Launch Trailer — Playfool
- Announcement Trailer — Deviation Game
- 発表告知トレーラー — Deviation Game (JP)
- Deviation Game ver 1.0 — exhibit documentation — CCBT, Art Incubation Program
English playthroughs
- ChilledChaosGAME — “ARE WE SMARTER THAN THE AI?!”
- Mr. Fruit — “The Drawing Game Where Being GOOD is BAD”
- ZeRoyalViking — “We Tried to Outsmart an AI With Our Drawings”
- CheesyBeeps — “AI vs Humans Drawing Game”
- EFS — “we tried to outsmart AI, it went terribly wrong…”
- Luca Kaneshiro & Shu Yamino — NIJISANJI EN
- FuwaMoco & HoloJP reactions — hololive
Japanese playthroughs & streams
- キヨ。 — 【4人実況】
- もこう
- M.S.S Project — MSSP vs AI
- 赤髪のとも — コラボ
- 白上フブキ & 輪堂千速 — hololive #ホロディヴィエーション
- 社築, 風楽奏斗, ド葛本社 — にじさんじ
- 千燈ゆうひ — ぶいすぽっ！
- k4sen
- 日常組
- らっだぁ運営
- 夏川椎菜 — 声優
- ファミ通（ファミラボ）
- 吸盤さんの参加型生配信 — 46-episode viewer-participation series
On Niconico
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Exhibitions
Awards
- Gemini API Developer Competition, Most Creative App(2024)