In this episode, I talk with Greek artist Kyriaki Goni about Telling the Bees —her in-development game about a character called the Bee-Seeker, searching for the last surviving bees in a near-future Aegean archipelago on the edge of ecological collapse.

We get into the ritual that gives the game its name, the anthropological research behind every design decision, and why she wants players to physically perform the waggle dance to unlock parts of the game.

This is exactly the kind of work I cover at Killscreen: art that uses interactivity to reveal something true about the world that couldn't be said any other way.

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• (00:00) - Ritual of Telling Bees
• (00:34) - Meet Kyriaki Goni
• (01:30) - Naming and Family Traditions
• (03:33) - The Basket Origin Story
• (07:20) - Researching Ancient Beekeeping
• (10:23) - Designing the Bee Seeker
• (12:41) - Wrap Up and Where Next

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