They are hiding all around us. 

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Some are tiny, almost impossible to see. Others are enormous, bigger than imaginable.

 

They are camouflaged on the side of skyscrapers and hiding in small scratches on park benches.

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And they are abundant. 

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Who are they? And why are they here?

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The MNY is a geolocated-AR game in development where young people seek non-human entities hiding in plain sight on the streets of their city. Players (5-12 years of age) snap photos, use step-by-step prompts to name and invent characters, draw these personas directly onto their digital image, and upload it to a city map. We call this participative AR.

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Geo-location and fiducial marking (where a device is triggered when it’s camera finds a particular form) helps players locate Mny made by other children. They draw their own characters onto other’s faces, building a kind of virtual graffiti - an animated flick-through of the many different child-generated faces of that place.

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Through repeated use, game players unlock an artist-created world that emerges across multiple sites. Slowly, by walking the city with your eyes open, you will find out the truth about the Mny. They are not guests or strangers. This is their city. And they created it to understand why humans have separated from the environment which is their habitat.