Telling the Bees: Kyriaki Goni on Building a Game from a Stranger's Gift

The Killscreen Podcast · May 26, 2026 · 13m · transcript

In this episode, I talk with Greek artist Kyriaki Goni about Telling the Bees —her in-development game about a character called the Bee-Seeker, searching for the last surviving bees in a near-future Aegean archipelago on the edge of ecological collapse.

We get into the ritual that gives the game its name, the anthropological research behind every design decision, and why she wants players to physically perform the waggle dance to unlock parts of the game.

This is exactly the kind of work I cover at Killscreen: art that uses interactivity to reveal something true about the world that couldn't…