Kalian, Joget Joget is an interactive multiplayer puppet game that explores how algorithmic agents can express personality and emotion through smartphone interaction. Inspired by the traditions of Wayang Kulit shadow puppetry, the project transforms smartphones into contemporary puppeteering tools. While players control their puppets on a shared digital stage, each character responds through its own emotional states and behavioural rules. Like puppets with minds of their own, the characters do not simply obey. Instead, they express how they feel about what they are made to do, reacting with joy, frustration, fear, or resistance, turning every performance into a playful conversation between puppeteer and puppet.
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