Joe McKay

The Color Game

The Colour Game is an interactive computer installation. In this 2 player game each person controls three sliders: a red, green and blue. The players uses these sliders to try and match their colour to the "target" colour before their opponent does. The game is easy to learn, addictive, yet hard to master.
There are fifteen different levels and animations but the goal is always the same. A player who spends time with the game will come away with a deeper understanding of the nature of light and colour. Mixing the colour is counterintuitive to the uninitiated because you are mixing light not pigment (for example: adding red and green will make yellow not brown).

I debuted The Colour Game at Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn, New York in the summer of 2003. Since then it has been shown in several different venues around the world.