SIHEYU4N

SIHEYU4N is conceived as a multiplayer variation on classic falling-block puzzle mechanics: goal of the game is to place the blocks in the correspondent colored slots of the central grid but - as each player controls one area of the game and each area spawns blocks of one color - players have to pass and receive blocks to/from the other ones, talking, sharing a strategy and cooperating together in order to complete the full grid. By setting 4 players around a shared playable ‘square’ and making them interact with each other towards a collaborative goal, SIHEYU4N aims at abstractly and playfully reproduce the experience of social aggregation of the original siheyuan (Beijing’s historical courtyards) residence concept, where 4 families used to live together on the 4 sides of a common ‘quadrangle’.