Projects
The Game
The Game
The Game is an immersive sound walking artwork that explores football as lived culture rather than stadium spectacle. It focuses on memory, ritual, and place, using sound to connect audiences with Dundee’s social and cultural fabric.
Audiences download a mobile app, wear headphones and explore the city. Their movement, including routes, pauses and pace, triggers adaptive layers of sound such as chants, conversations, music and field recordings. Each walk produces unique compositions that intertwine personal and collective memory.
The Game is an immersive sound-walk artwork in Dundee by Biome Collective, led by creative producer Malath Abbas and sound artist Andy Truscott. You download a mobile app, wear headphones, and walk through the city. Your route, pace, and pauses trigger layered audio, chants, conversations, music, and field recordings. Each walk produces a different composition, shaped by how you move through place.
Expand
£50000
“We’re proud to have secured Expand funding...For Biome Collective, this support recognises our ongoing work to push the boundaries of immersive arts and create experiences that extend beyond traditional screens into shared public space. It enables us to develop ambitious ideas with our partners and deliver innovative, accessible work for real audiences.” - Malath Abbas
Aims of the project
The project will expand the current prototype through co-design with Alzheimer Scotland and local partners including Dundee United Community Trust, UNESCO City of Design Dundee, and V&A Dundee. This phase deepens accessibility and community authorship, moving toward a robust public release and a city-wide launch event rooted in Dundee’s football heritage.
The work explores football as lived culture, centred on memory, ritual, and local identity rather than stadium spectacle. It draws from the memories of Truscott’s father, a lifelong Dundee United supporter living with dementia. It preserves everyday journeys and matchday routines as a public artwork.
“...By weaving together personal memories of Dundee’s football culture with the physical act of walking through the city, we’re creating a living archive. This support allows us to honour stories, like those of my father, and transform everyday matchday routines into a shared, immersive experience for the whole community.” - Andy Truscott
Meet Biome Collective
Biome Collective
Biome Collective is a Scotland-based creative studio and community making games and immersive digital experiences with cultural partners and local people. The team blends game design, sound, storytelling and creative technology to create public-facing work that invites participation across ages and backgrounds. Biome Collective works through collaboration, co-design and prototyping, supporting artists and organisations to explore new approaches to interactive culture. The studio also offers consultation and development support, helping partners build accessible, robust experiences from early concept through to delivery.
Malath Abbas
Creative Producer
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Malath Abbas is a game designer, artist and creative producer based in Scotland, creating experimental and meaningful games and experiences. A founding member of Biome Collective, he leads production on The Game across UX design, team management and partnership development, working with partners and communities to deliver an accessible, place-based experience.
Andy Truscott
Lead Artist
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Andy Truscott is a composer and field recordist based in Fife who releases music under the moniker Kinbrae with his twin brother Mike and is a member of Biome Collective. His practice is inspired by the Scottish landscape and features a wide range of field recordings sourced by himself that are manipulated and treated to add organic elements to the electronic and modern classical music they compose.
Tom DeMajo
Sound Designer
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A UK based digital artist and game designer, Tom DeMajo focusses on multi-sensory interactive experiences, bridging the gap between contemporary arts and games. deMajo has gained a reputation for convincing work that explores relationships and effects between technology and society, often using unconventional spaces to create dynamic immersive experiences.
Ewan Fisher
Developer
Ewan Fisher is a developer based in Edinburgh with a background in implementation and programming. Their work ranges from narrative driven games, mixed reality experiences in AR and VR, and more. Ewan Fisher has exhibited work across the UK: at EGX (2022), Hidden Door Festival (2025), Push the Boat Out Festival (2025), Pocket Gamer Connects (2026), and more.
Susie Buchan
Producer
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Susie Buchan is a freelance creative producer, curator and performance artist working at the intersection of arts and videogames. She has 8 years experience producing and curating events, festivals, digital experiences and games. She’s a Director of Dundee based creative studio and community Biome Collective and Producer of Arcadia Festival.
