Ouija Party app for iPhone and iPad

Beware: To be used for entertainment purposes only.


The best digital translation of the traditional parlour game, the talking board*- in your pocket!
This interactive entertainment app was created to connect with the afterlife. It listens to the questions you ask and, if successfully connected to a spirit, answers through a mechanical voice.

Instructions:

1. Best played in a dimly lit, fairly quiet room, with WiFi turned on.
2. When the red light bulb blinks, touch the lever to ask your question. Speak clearly!
3. When the light bulb turns off, place all players fingers on the crystal ring. (It can be used by a single player, too.) The tesla lightning at the top of the device symbolises a connection.
4. Try not to force movements of the glass. A message can be read out in the small box on the right as it is being spelled out.
5. When the message is finished, the device will speak it out loud. Listen carefully. DO NOT PANIC**.
6. If you want to see the whole message in writing, or share it with your networks, click on the social media buttons.

Good luck.


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How does it work?

Technically, the app is merely a facilitator for communication. At its core is a combination of freeflowing verbal streams which react to the given input and ultimately respond in the format of a live-generated audio message. The choice of technologies behind it were riddled with horrific and partly inexplicable advancements in computer science, and the remaining developers went along with the events as they unraveled during one of the most deterministic agile development projects in the history of all unholy communication attempts.

Why did it come to exist?

The Ouija Party apps artificial life began in conversation between a (now sadly deceased) philosopher-programmer and the digital artist who went on to lead the production of the app. A promise was made: if the philosopher were to die, he would attempt to communicate with his friend from the afterlife.
Sadly, this foretold death did indeed come to pass. And, one cold night before Halloween, the philosophers melancholy friend opened a book on artificial life he had given her -- resolving to build a contraption that would run ghostly infrasound input through neural networks, in an attempt to facilitate conversation between levels of existence.


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Developers notes:

Hiya,
Its been the most messed up project Ive ever been entangled in. I just thought I should probably tell you to remember to say Goodbye at the end, dunno, might help or something. Anyhow, I need sleep (and no, I dont mean the eternal kind - enough of those sorts of happenings recently). So long, goodnight, let me know if the dead bugs byte.


* (Aka ouija, weeja or fuji and spiritism)
**N.B. Pataphysics is not responsible for things the dead may say..