Ken Amarit

I make dance music with Gameboys as Chippopotamus. Streaming available on Bandcamp and Spotify. Checkout the website for info on upcoming performances.

Nest is an unreleased competitive, 2v2 local-multiplayer video game. The characters and world are felted with wool and stop motion animated. The game previously existed as an arcade cabinet (part of the Death By Audio Arcade collective based at Wonderville in Brooklyn, NY). The game and cabinet have been shown at various events and festivals around the US, including the Boston Festival of Indie Games 2014, LWLVL festival in 2014 and 2016, the Indie Arcade at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Indiecade East at the Musuem of the Moving Image.

Voyager is a game for iOS. The art in the game was made by needle felting wool then stop-motion animated. The code is written in objective-C using the cocos2d library. Voyager has been featured on IGN, Kill Screen, Touch Arcade, and more, and was a part of Maker Faire NYC 2012. The game was an official selection for the Gamercamp Showcase and the Klik! Amsterdam Animation Festival. You can play it here.