Cyber Sugar
Parents, carers, teachers and educators are big heroes to small people. Sometimes they need a moment or five to gather their thoughts, wipe a counter, answer an email, or put dinner on. While the world is both real and surreal, fall head first into the internet for some levity, wonderment, and peace.
These interactive creative experiments and games are immersive for everyone, and curated with parents in mind. No pesky downloads or lengthy installations. Just your kid, a browser, and the internet. And for you, maybe fifteen minutes. Engineer small moments of calm while keeping your little ones wide eyed.
Maybe you’ve got that kind of face. Art Selfie compares your photo with thousands of artworks to see if any look like you.
Channel your inner Dave Grohl banging on your burger drum.
Design, poke, and wobble some 3D blobs.
You’re the composer. They’re a choir of blobs.
You’re a hungry rabbit, and a puzzle is the only thing standing between you and those sweet sweet carrots.
Oh to be a pixellated jelly worm bouncing through cyberspace. Finish all five levels collecting donuts and getting eaten by a fish.
“Play a funky bass line”, “Gimme bongos”, “Add a silly guitar”. Create music using simple voice commands.
Dance, slide, and wiggle with PoseNet. Create beautiful art with movement.
What if you could hear a painting? Drawing goes in, music comes out.
Draw a doodle character. Animate it with your camera. Remember Forky from Toy Story 4? Kinda like that.
A Christmas game in outer space. Use your hands to steer the deer, collect fallen presents and dodge asteroids.
An oddly satisfying arcade game meets Tower of Hanoi.
If you know any big heroes who need a small break, send them to this little corner of the internet.
With heavy reference to the work of Google Arts & Culture. Many thanks to creative technologists Charlie Gerard, Maya Man, and Steve Gardner, who dream up, create, and share incredible things.
