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Alanna Okun (ITP ’26) was recently featured on the industry site 80 Level<\/a> for her thesis project, Loose Ends.\u00a0<\/p>\n Loose Ends transports players to a rainy day in 2009, offering a cozy exploration of knitting. While the game can be played online, the centerpiece is its physicalhardware. Okun hand-knits the entire setup, concealing the computer beneath the yarn and even transforming the joystick into a soft yarn ball.<\/p>\n From the article by Amber Rutherford:\u00a0<\/p>\n "If you need a reminder of just how creative game devs can be, Alanna Okun’s 2026 graduate thesis at NYU Tisch ITP is a lovely example… even the joystick is a yarn ball: so clever and ridiculously adorable."<\/p>\n Where to Play<\/b><\/p>\n Loose Ends is currently available to play on itch.io<\/a>, Best experienced on desktop). You can learn more about Alanna\u2019s work and her experiments with tactile electronics on her personal blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <!–\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alanna Okun (ITP ’26) was recently featured on the industry site 80 Level for her thesis project, Loose Ends. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}