Escape the Smart City is a critical pervasive game for creating awareness about the implications of AI-surveillance technology in the smart city. Through the play-test, it was made clear that by providing the players with interactive feedback on how AI-surveillance would perceive the world, the players were able to get a sense of the black boxed nature of AI and ask critical questions about their necessity and consequences.

The project was created by Tomo Kihara and under the supervision of Roy Bendor, Tom Demeyer, Stefano Bocconi, and me in the scope of her Master’s thesis at Delft University of Technology.