Pixel Peranakan
Restore a Peranakan home and uncover its family stories in this game I made with Julia Tay.
About the gameINTERACTION · PLAY · CONNECTION
I MAKE THINGSYOU CAN PLAYWITH.
Hi, I’m Timothi, an interactive developer and HCI researcher working across games, art and Social XR.
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Play on itch.io01 / 03
A home full of memories.
Restore a Peranakan home and uncover its family stories in this game I made with Julia Tay.
Game development & UI · Artwork by Julia TayIn development02 / 03
Fight with two bodies.
Coordinate a small robot and its much larger projected form in a game I’m developing around distance, angle and timing.
Development gameplay · September 2026Browser game + artwork04 / 03
A puzzle with company.
A browser puzzle with a developing AI companion, also exhibited as an artwork at COMPUTALA 2026.
Shown at COMPUTALA · 2026Installation documentation05 / 03
What kind of star are you?
An interactive artwork that uses the familiar format of an internet personality quiz to generate a cosmic reading and persona.
New Media Art Club · COMPUTALA 2025Watch the prototype06 / 03
A body responding to sound.
Watch an audio-responsive hologram and dance prototype, then read about the relationship between its input and response.
Audio-responsive prototype · work in progressRead all eight pages07 / 03
Coffee and generative AI.
Eight hand-painted pages about coffee, play and living with generative AI, alongside an experimental website.
Original hand-painted pages · Timothi LimConferences, awards & courses08 / 03
Research beyond the prototype.
Publications, conferences, awards and courses from my research practice.
Practice-based PhD · Timothi LimMove. Press. Explore.
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What I’m working on.
Here are some of my games, research projects and interactive experiments. You can play the released work, watch prototypes and read about how I’m developing them.
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EGOFORM
Coordinate a small robot and its much larger projected form in a game I’m developing around distance, angle and timing.
About the game
Social XR
My PhD investigates how people cooperate and interpret an interactive experience while sharing the same room.
About the research
Infinity Box
A browser puzzle with a developing AI companion, also exhibited as an artwork at COMPUTALA 2026.
About the game
Cosmic Pop Persona
An interactive artwork that uses the familiar format of an internet personality quiz to generate a cosmic reading and persona.
About the artworkListening Body
Watch an audio-responsive hologram and dance prototype, then read about the relationship between its input and response.
Watch the demonstration
Coffee zine
Eight hand-painted pages about coffee, play and living with generative AI, alongside an experimental website.
Read the zine
Research in practice
Publications, conferences, awards and courses from my research practice.
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More games and prototypes.
Play Plasticity, take a look at RewriteXR, or watch the GET BACK HERE! prototype.
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GamesPlasticity
2.5D cinematic platformer
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Games
GamesGET BACK HERE!
A chase-game prototype. A short look at movement, pursuit and the feeling of getting away.
Tap the rings. Bring them together.
A little room for different perspectives.
RESEARCH / SOCIAL XR
Playing in the
I build room-scale XR experiences where people share a physical space and interact with what they see on a screen. I’m interested in how they decide what to try, interpret one another’s actions and find ways to cooperate.
Read about my researchART / CREATIVE PRACTICE
When made things
begin to
Under the name KOAIKOI, I make games, responsive environments and digital characters. I’m interested in how we grow familiar with something we know has been made, and how we respond when it behaves in a way we didn’t expect.
ArtMove a little closer. Tap to say hello.
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