Bounden

A game by Game Oven in collaboration with the Dutch National Ballet, released on May 21th 2014.

Game Oven's whimsical dancing game for two players, with choreography by the Dutch National Ballet. Twist and twirl elegantly, or get entangled with a friend.
Holding either end of a device, you tilt the device around a virtual sphere following a path of rings. You swing your arms and twist your body, and before you know it, you are already dancing.

Gameplay trailer

LETS DANCE

Dutch National Ballet Dances

Making of's

Praise & recognition

  • Nuovo Award Finalist

    Independent Games Festival, San Francisco, 2015

  • Best New Media Production Winner

    € 7.500, Cinekid, Amsterdam, 2014

  • Innovation Award Finalist

    Game Developers Choice Awards, San Francisco, 2015

  • Best Co-Production

    Dutch Game Awards, Utrecht, 2014

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A mobile dancing game

Bounden is a mix of Twister and ballet. You use your phone as a guide to dance or get entangled with someone else. So, you pull out your phone, ask another person to put down a thumb, and move synchronously to dance together. Play at a bar, a great museum, while you’re hitting an oil rig, during a date, during work hours, while smoking a pipe or as a performance, even with other couples playing at the same time.

The way the game guides you to dance is through markers on a ball. You have to see it to understand it, but technically you look down at a ball like a satellite would look down at Earth. You bring the center of the screen to the markers. And that’s how you find the two of you dancing.

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