I've used BinjGB to embed the Game Boy ROM above but audio can be glitchy. The ROM is available further down the page. If you want a cart or a link cable peripheral, contact me!

Controls for the Game Boy emulator:

Keyboard	Game boy
Arrow keys	D-pad
Enter key	Start
Z key	B button
X key	A button

Hazuki

Hazuki is inspired by classic “quick time events” (QTEs) from games like Dragon’s Lair & Shenmue, that familiar feeling of reacting quickly to on-screen prompts. Instead of a gamepad, players work with a hand-powered knitting machine. Player 1 cranks the machine, controlling the pace of the on-screen prompts, while Player 2 has to press arcade-style buttons in time with the symbols on the screen. Get it wrong, and the rhythm is broken; get it right, and you feel that satisfying flow that comes with nailing a tough game sequence or mastering a new craft technique.

Hazuki Knit started life as a simple QTE game created by me, but the addition of the knitting machine, in collaboration with Gemma Potter, completely transformed it. The machine itself has a real ‘80s aesthetic, so we leaned into that theme, creating a Game Boy version of Hazuki Knit. We produced custom cartridges and designed a custom peripheral that connects a Brother knitting machine directly to the Game Boy’s link cable port. This meant we could move away from the earlier Raspberry Pi version, making the game more portable and playable on actual Game Boy hardware.

But we didn’t stop there. At the 2018 London Games Festival, we ran an experimental version of Hazuki Knit in collaboration with knit artists Sam Meech and Marie Jones. We set up the game at the Guildhall Gallery, where players’ scores were automatically uploaded to an online database. These scores were then used to generate “re-knits” — digital-to-physical images inspired by the Seen and Heard: Victorian Children in the Frame exhibition. It was part high-score leaderboard, part collaborative textile project, with the final knitted images reflecting both player performance and the artistic context of the gallery. This is where Hazuki Knit really found its identity — not just as a game, but as a space for people to see the links between gaming, craft, and storytelling.