#corona

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 was one of the most impactful events of 2020. All over the world, it prevented people from leaving their homes, for their own as well as other people's safety. Many of those who were not able to keep up their daily routine, like going to work, were forced to take a break from their everyday lives, and then some started spending their time with digital media, like video games.

This lead us to creating a station of our Hypermachine which represents COVID-19 not only with related hashtags and toilet paper allusions, but also with a computer and a video game world. With Minecraft, we were then able to create a fully digital part of a Rube Goldberg Machine while building in some creative Corona references. There were difficulties when we had to create input and output to and from the video game that was visible to the viewer as a part of the machine, and making the game mechanics we used themselves understandable was difficult as well. However, the result gave the stations of our Hypermachine more diversity and we managed to represent this issue of 2020 in a more unique and entertaining way.