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On Cooking a Sour Game

Cook Your Way functions as a critical intervention in game design, utilizing an alternative controller and the preparation of traditional Brazilian cuisine to interrogate the dehumanizing mechanics of global immigration systems.

• Cook Your Way uses a custom physical cooking interface to simulate the high-pressure, dehumanizing experience of navigating the Canadian immigration system.
• The game design rejects traditional empathy-driven narratives and player-empowerment mechanics in favor of structural instability and anticlimax to mirror bureaucratic inefficiency.
• By utilizing modular, transparent hardware, the project forces players to confront the friction and futility inherent in state-sanctioned border regimes.