Design by Michelle Vong
Finding Meaning in Fido
By Kira Tang
Yale Herald
September 6, 2026
Excerpt
On a table near the windows is Kyle Bellucci Johanson's Lupa Rossi, a partially hand-drawn video game designed for two players who, sitting opposite each other, can communicate with each other across the table but cannot see each other's screens. To Johanson, video games are particularly unique because they are "the only form of theater in which you are a participant," and his set-like environments draw out the game's theatrical quality. In Lupa Rossi, one person plays an opera singer who works several jobs to make ends meet, while the other person plays the opera singer's dog, who escapes the apartment after the opera singer, in her haste to leave for work, accidentally leaves the front door unlocked.
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