Game Design
Interactive Artwork
Crappy Mall
2016
Crappy mall is an interactive click and point desktop game MAYO created in 2016. The idea of the piece is to explore a mall that leads you into alternative realities. MAYO was inspired by the idea of "Dead Malls". Dead malls are empty and often deteriorating malls left over from the American mall boom during 1970s-1990s. Due to the switch in consumerist culture to online shopping, a large amount of these malls have found themselves running out of business... hence the term "Dead Mall". These areas almost act as a time capsule of the era they where built in. MAYO wanted to give the viewer a chance to explore one of these "Dead Malls". All of the backgrounds and individual frames were drawn in Photoshop. The animation and actual creation of the game was done in GameSalad.
