Space Backyard 🚀

ALT White booth with an embedded screen and a single button. The screen features the title of the game “Statues” in black and white, capital letters.

ALT Children’s games like Statues - or Grandmother’s Footsteps, as it is known in some areas of the UK - often encode archetypal power dynamics. This video game vignette by indie game creators Space Backyard uses the spatial organisation and rhythm of the children’s game to tell a political fairy tale about the defeat of a king by the people.