Have You Eaten Yet?
Ben Kelly and Olly RybakAngus DoolanHarvey Liu

In our modern world, our lives and identities are increasingly defined by our occupation. The menial, repeated tasks of manual labour and the measured conversations of customer service leave an imprint on the way we see the world, and the way we speak with others. Have You Eaten Yet? represents these moments as small intimacies. In the game, players fold dumplings whilst they interact with co-workers and customers. Work quickly and efficiently, make dialogue choices and learn about the people around you in a cosy shopping-centre restaurant.

Have You Eaten Yet lets players imagine themselves within these nostalgic moments of time. As the nights come and go, the repeated tasks will reveal your personal habits. Are you the kind of worker who makes small talk and takes an interest in the customers? Or are you the solitary type who does their job quickly and leaves straight after? With each pleat and fold, Have You Eaten Yet invites the player to reflect and remember, considering the relationship between our past work and our present selves.

A playthrough runs for around 20 minutes, and is controlled entirely with the mouse.

Have You Eaten Yet is commissioned by 4A and curated by Con Gerakaris and Marco Rinaldi. This project is supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. 

Published 15 August 2022

About the artist

Ben Kelly and Olly Rybak are founding members of Caps Collective, an independent, Sydney-based artists' collective making games and interactive media. 

Read more
Ben Kelly and Olly Rybak

About the artist

Angus Doolan is a Brisbane-based freelance artist working in game development.

Read more
Angus Doolan

About the artist

Harvey Liu is a fiction writer living on Darug land in Sydney’s northwest.

Read more
Harvey Liu

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which we live, work and create. We recognise the enduring connections between First Nations people and the land, waters, culture and communities that have existed for over 60,000 years. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Visit Us

181-187 Hay Street, Haymarket Warrane/Sydney NSW 2000 Australia

Get in Touch

T +61 2 9212 0380

E hello@4a.com.au

Postal address

PO Box K1312 Haymarket NSW 1240 Australia
Australia Council for the Arts
Australian Government Visual Arts and Craft Strategy
Create NSW
Creative City Sydney, City of Sydney
Vault
South Asian Today
Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia
Climate Active Logo in Black
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is an initiative of the Asian Australian Artists' Association Inc. We are grateful for the assistance of the Commonwealth Government through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy and the Australia Council for the Arts, the NSW Government through Create NSW, and the City of Sydney through their Accommodation Grants Program.

© 2025 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Website by Elle Williams Studio & Sorry Company.