App Detail » -8-

What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Playback performance enhancements and smaller size.

App Description

Parallel dimensions and haunting noise-- lower the lights, turn up the sound, and look around.

Part short film, part game, and part video installation, 8 is an artist-produced app that places you in the middle of an immersive video where physically moving your device reveals events unfolding and repeating around you. Users can navigate through a maze of 24 looping scenes by simply tapping the screen. Navigation symbols can be used to learn patterns of movement through the app but there is no real beginning or end.

Visit stephenslappe.com to download a companion booklet to 8 the app or purchase a physical copy from Social Malpractice Publishing.

Made by Stephen Slappe
App Developed by Jacob Fennell (+software engine)
Sound elements by Bryson Hansen
Graphic design by Nate Preston
Post-production by David McCutchen
Actors are Emily Galash, Dane Overton, Alicia Gordon, Rebecca Carlisle-Healy, Robert Burns, Zoe Bullock, Joe Noreen, Rachael Jensen

Supported by the following organizations:
The Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
The Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

App Changes

• April 16, 2014 Initial release
• October 12, 2014 New version 1.1
• February 10, 2015 New version 1.2
• March 12, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
• November 25, 2015 Price decrease: $0.99 -> FREE!