Have you ever wanted to live in a musical wonderland of flowers and Emoji?
Now you can!
EmojiFlower VR is a Virtual Reality game that combines Emoji with 90s interiors, natural environments, and original music. EmojiFlower VR 😀 🌻 is experienced with Google Cardboard.
Explore and collect Emoji in three different worlds: flower world, outer space and under water world. Akin to early video games, like Super Mario Brothers, EmojiFlower VR uses a simple point and shoot interaction in hyper-real 360 degrees. EmojiFlower VR is a rumination and celebration of the possibility, joy, and strangeness of twenty first century American culture. The game was designed and Developed by Niki Selken with original music by Timothy Vickers.
The folks that played it HAD A BLAST!
“It was so cool!”
-Oliver Cusik, 9 years old
“I think it’s really good. I liked popping Emojis.”
-Myla Peacock, 8 years old
Grab a Google Cardboard Viewer for $15 from Google and start playing the game!
Tools
Unity VR, Photoshop, iPhone, and Google Cardboard,
Press
- The Associated Press
- Buzzfeed
- Bay Area Bandwidth
- Medium
- Niki Selken: Cave Painting Pictograms to Ideographic VR
Exhibitions
- Google Tilt Brush VR Happy Hour, 2017, San Francisco
- Cultural Incubator Showcase at Grey Area – 2017, San Francisco
- Emojicon – 2016, San Francisco
You can learn more about the development process for the game here.