Projects
The Poppitech Exception
The Poppitech Exception
In a former industrial Northern town where tensions are rising, audiences become the unseen guide to a boy seeking escape from an unsettled home and a community turning inward, culminating in a live encounter with an artificial intelligence that challenges perceptions of empathy, agency and belonging.
The Poppitech Exception is an immersive VR story set in a former industrial Northern town shaped by loss and rising tensions. Audiences become the unseen guide to a boy navigating an unsettled home and a community turning inward. Moving with him through fragile domestic spaces, new-build estates and the quiet refuge of nearby woods, participants shape his path while remaining close enough to witness his vulnerability.
Experiment
£20,000
Aims of the project
Through this work, we are exploring how third-person perspective and adaptive dialogue can open space for empathy, agency and shared authorship within immersive storytelling.
The journey leads to a derelict factory and a live encounter with an AI-driven device that responds in real time. This unscripted exchange allows each participant to influence how the story resolves.
Meet Dreaming Methods
Dreaming Methods
Dreaming Methods is an award-winning studio based in Wakefield, run by lead creatives Judi Alston and Andy Campbell.
Working at the intersection of immersive media, games, digital art and film, they combine literary storytelling with emerging technologies to create socially engaged VR, AR and interactive works exploring belonging, identity and memory.
Their projects have premiered at the British Library, Wales Millennium Centre and international Film/XR festivals, winning awards for innovation and social impact.
Judi Alston
Immersive Producer and Co-Director
she/her
Judi is a creative producer, director and writer specialising in socially engaged storytelling and audience-centred production. Andy is a writer and game designer specialising in experimental narrative and immersive design.
Andy Campbell
Co-Director and Lead Developer
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Andy is a writer, games designer and digital artist, Andy established Dreaming Methods in 1999. It’s now a multi-award winning studio creating high quality immersive digital stories across a range of platforms.
