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Use the map to
find the markers.
Pick up a paper map
with QR code to begin.
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See each marker through your device to unlock the secret beings.
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Show how you see
each being with your
own drawing.
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Add to see your drawing
come to life as part of the growing community collection.
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Use your map to find all
15 beings hidden around
the site.
Get your adult to hold the map while you control the device!
take photo!
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Unlock the biggest secret on site -
a massive MaNY hiding right infront of you -
brought to life with a special animation created by local kids.
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The world is alive with MaNY.
Now you know how to notice them, you will see them everywhere.
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Keep building your own collection and see a live feed of all the MaNY being found.
They are hiding all around us.
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.
And they are abundant.
Switching on users’ pareidolia (the innate human capacity to see faces in our surroundings), The MaNY invites kids to find markers that unlock AR drawings created by kids which animate being-like forms.
Kids travel with a paper map searching sites for the MaNY markers. After unlocking each MaNY, they are invited to add their own drawing which they then see as part of the animated augmented reality collection.
Moving through the city, the landscape becomes increasingly alive. Child players make and experience their drawings as a kind of virtual graffiti - a collective take-over that preferences children's ways of moving, seeing and being in public domains.
The MNY is launched at Melbourne Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Games Week in October 2025.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Concept: Jessica Wilson & Tom Holloway
Story & Design: Jessica Wilson and Christy Dena
Developer V2: Steve Hadley
Developer V1 (Melbourne): Jae Stuart
Ui Art: Vanessa Fernandez
Producer: Jessica Wilson
Advisor: Steve Hadley
Video: Brenna Ternus
The MNY has received support from the City of Melbourne Arts Grants, Melbourne Festival Fringe XS program and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.