What’s Next For?: After Mega Dreoilín, Han Hogan and Donal Fullam plan Tenantgotchi and a Grand Canal Dock demolition derbyThe room I’m in looks eerily familiar. It’s a setting recognisable to anyone who has ever wiled away the hours playing video games in a flat or shared house: dim light, couch, armchair, television with game controller. On the screen, Mega Dreoilín is about to start.
Hogan has been renting for 14 years, Fullam for 24. They met through music. “We were organising punk gigs. That’s how we met each other, through DIY spaces like Tenterhooks,” Fullam says. “And the Grangegorman squat,” Hogan says. “We’d be very involved with the squat scene now. We both put on gigs … so we’re in that world.”
“All the people in the game, we interviewed them,” Fullam says. “Who could a young person meet who would be able to explain to them what’s going on?Mega Dreoilín: Han Higan regards players’ conversation with James Connolly as key