# bigtime television status: conceptual a max headroom simulator / open source software toy set minutes into the near future infinitely modular in its very dna the role of max headroom simulator is to provide a lo-fi simulation of the near future retro 80s aesthetic an (abstract) garme space for emergent non-scripted play / scenarios to spontaneously occur like late night public access cable tv the idea is to recreate the feeling of experiencing the (uk style) max headroom dimension for the first time circa '85 armed with "virtual pxl-2000" cameras players join the distributed "network 23" and together ir collective interactions / reportage (ala twitch plays pokemon) make up the realtime narrative max headroomesque play-space / persistent world theatre example garme-space elements for bigtime television **+** voorism **+** deep neon purple afterglow **+** vhs glitch **+** deliberately janky physics **+** apocalyptic urban uk blandscapes / ballardian underground carparks **+** supermassive mega-corporate towers **+** hacking sousveillance gonzo journalism **+** bad pop videos (html5 / flash) **+** 3d rotating wireframe architecture meshes **+** accumulated kibble **+** chunky interfaces oldskool retro feel heavy cyberpunk (cheese) **+** synthwave // republic of bob