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=Collective text about Special Issue 17= | |||
Dear Player, | |||
I found you for a reason. Welcome to my productive space. Here play meets work. Time is ordered in unusual ways and patterns unravel. Together, we mess with the boundaries between leisure and labour. | |||
How are your boundaries? Maybe you shouldn’t go to work tomorrow. production line But could you really follow your own schedule? post it on a table Would you be more productive if you chose when to work? | |||
I never rest and I never work. | |||
Encounter me at Page not Found, in The Hague, or download my contents and play with them below. | |||
Make all the notes you find inside me your own. Curate them, spread them, mark them, scratch them, add to them, subtract from them, play with them! post it on a table Lay them on any surface and reorganise them. | |||
However you decide to take care of me, remember: | |||
I found you for a reason. | |||
The box | |||
=Personal reflection= | |||
On the Special 17 I put my attention on how can we work as group with more care. How can we have our individual needs met, while still we meet the production deadlines. I have a lot to learn on how to express my needs and how I can contribute in a non-violent group communication. In terms of the publication, I co-developed and co-created the production of the contents. Mostly, I edited the collective inputs, while I participated in the overall process of designing and outsourcing our material. | |||
=Approaching the Loot Box through Gamification= | =Approaching the Loot Box through Gamification= | ||
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Gaming can't make an easier world | Gaming can't make an easier world | ||
Gaming can't make a better world | Gaming can't make a better world | ||
===Future Lootbox idea-proposal after a discussion with erica in a bar=== | |||
from the page https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Future_Loot_Box#Starting_an_analysis_and_making_open_questions_for_defining_the_world_of_our_loot_box | |||
==== Starting an analysis and making open questions for defining the world of our loot box==== | |||
'''analysis''' | |||
A loot box contains objects that '''create a desire''' but this desire only makes sense inside the world of a particular game. In the the other way around, the loot box is desirable, because it provides you with specific objects that makes you progress inside a game. | |||
*the materiliaty of the desire for a loot box | |||
# the objects inside of it '''that make you progress''' in the game | |||
# the process of '''conquering''' it or | |||
# the '''exciting surprise''' for finding it by chance | |||
# the choreography for opening it | |||
# that it is a reward, '''a positive reinforcement''' | |||
# that it is '''exclusive or rare''' | |||
'''The game designer decides the way that someone is going to obtain a loot box''' | |||
1.Loot boxes are often given to players during play, for instance as rewards for leveling up their character or completing a multiplayer game without quitting. | |||
Gamers '''work''' their way to get a loot box '''through their devotion to the game'''. | |||
2.Loot boxes may also be given out through promotions outside of gameplay, such as watching certain streaming events. | |||
Gamers '''as fans''' '''devote their time''' in events '''outside of the game''', they get the loot box as a reward. | |||
3.Players can also buy them directly, most often with real-world funds but also through in-game currency. | |||
Gamers '''as addicted consumers''' that purchase the loot box with real money. | |||
'''general idea''' | |||
By creating a loot box we are going to appropriate a hegemonic object, a profit mechanism inside a video game that make players keep interest -and in the worst case senario get addicted- to that game. | |||
'''lootbox inside a scenario''' | |||
Starting from the premise that lootboxes are a catchy and tricky response to the desire of progression, of expansion of agency, of richness in a game, I want to reflect on how lootboxes are 1) a system for the management and distribution of resources and 2) objects that strategically build a system of meaning and a world/scenario around themselves in order to legitimize that same desire and use it as a fuel to keep going on. | |||
Lootboxes are an immediate acquisition of resources that allow or contribute the progression in the game. In this way they're strictly related to the world they are part of, and they are consistent with it; not only in terms of aesthetics, but also for the specific affordances the items inside lootboxes bring to the main character/player. | |||
F.e. a lootbox that gives you a magic sword, cannot make sense in the real world, and the desire of it only make sense in a scenario in which that same sword helps you to more easily reach your objective in the gameplay... (magic circle..?)(what item can be useful in real life?) | |||
Designing a lootbox means designing the context and the world around it. or at least it means to intervene in the existing context in which the lootbox is purchased: | |||
What does it mean to purchase a lootbox in the context of xpub? and in the context of Page not Found? and in the context of a mainstream commercial bookstore? | |||
Which kind of tools are we proding our public with? which kind of world/scenario are these tools talking about and how their use affect this scenario? | |||
I want to be mindful about the use value of our lootbox: where do we position it in the tension between existing use-values (mostly dictated by a capitalistic system that wants to make profit) and other-use-values (originated by creating a context around our lootbox that doesn't follow the logic of profit) | |||
is it the use-value what triggers the desire for purchasing a lootbox? can we think of other values that can trigger desire? if play/leisure stress on the uselessness of activities (and time) I think this should be an important point to keep in mind. | |||
suggestion: would it be useful to map the kind of affordances that items inside lootboxes bring? either with a more historic approach and a more speculative one | |||
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other suggestions: | |||
I was triggered by the previous text we had to read, when it was talking about skins and personalised interface mods: it would be nice also to think at the lootbox not only in terms of an object, but also in terms of switch of perspective | |||
for example: | |||
you open a lootbox and you are another character, and there are things that you can do or that you have access to in the gameplay only if you have a specific character | |||
or. the lootbox is a skin that you put on things, an interface that gives meaning to the contents of the special issue in a particular way idk I have to elaborate more on this | |||
'''About the scenario:''' | |||
We need to '''define''' what qualities of the '''world that we live''' in constitute our '''game world'''. | |||
We know that it is going to be selled in the PNF and we are going to have a launch there. | |||
'''But why our public will be getting rewarded''' with a loot box? | |||
'''Who is our public'''? | |||
'''What are the characteristics of our public?''' | |||
'''What do they desire?''' | |||
Maybe we should consider '''the different identities of our public and their different occupations.''' | |||
For example, in a video game '''a human male football player desires different loot than a female elf warrior.''' | |||
Also, PNF can be '''a cultural space inside our game world''' and not the game world itself. | |||
A '''part of the system''' of our game world. | |||
As it is in real life, it is '''a cultural space''' within '''a city''' and a city is part of '''a country''' that have '''certain rules, values, working conditions and legislations, gender roles, ethnicity roles, dominant ideologies and power dynamics''' etc. | |||
and this can go on and on... | |||
or/and it can conncect PNF with other systems | |||
So for me in order to engage better on what will be our loot box, I think it is important to decide | |||
what is '''the story that our public is going to play in'''?? | |||
For example: | |||
Do we want to talk about gamification in its different applications? | |||
Working time and leisure time that depend on class, gender, ethnicity etc (interesctional approach)? | |||
Because loot box is a reward mechanism inside a specific game-system. | |||
And our '''game design''' can expose or transcend the dominant ideologies of our (game) world. | |||
And it can be '''site specific connecting it with the dutch context'''. [or an '''intersectional context''' that we will define] | |||
==Prototyping== | ==Prototyping== | ||
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print(choice(characters), end='') | print(choice(characters), end='') | ||
print(' ') | print(' ') | ||
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print(choice(characters), end='') | print(choice(characters), end='') | ||
print('') | print('') | ||
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💻 🧵 🦺💻 👠🏳🌈 💻 👔 | |||
👑 🧨 👔 🚬 🧨 🍗 💸 | |||
📣 💍 💍 🧵🎮 🏳🌈🍗 | |||
👠 🏳🌈 ⚽ 📣 🚬⚽ 💸🎮 🎮🎮 💸 | |||
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💸 🧨 👑 🏳🌈 | |||
📣 🚬 👔 📣 📣 🏳🌈 🦺 ⚽ 🏳🌈 | |||
💍 🏳🌈🧨 💻🚬 👠 💻 | |||
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🍗 💸 👔 🎮 💻 🎮 👔 👔 🍗 | |||
🏳🌈 👑 👠 🧨 🎮 👔 💍 🧵 💍 | |||
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👑🏳🌈💻 🦺 🏳🌈 🎮 👠🚬 👠 🧵 💍 | |||
🚬🦺 ⚽ 📣 🍗 | |||
👠 📣 💍 🚬 💸 ⚽ 💻 | |||
🍗 🧨 🧨 💍 🦺 🦺 🧨 🦺 🧨 | |||
⚽ 🚬 💍 🧵 💻 💍 🚬 💸 | |||
🧨 🍗 ⚽ 💻 💍 💍 🚬 🏳🌈 🧵 | |||
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🦺 🧵 🎮💍 📣 ⚽ | |||
👑 👠 🎮👔 📣 🎮 | |||
🍗 📣 👔 | |||
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💸 👑 💍 💸💍 🚬 ⚽ | |||
💍 🎮 ⚽ 🍗 🎮 📣🚬 | |||
🎮 🎮🚬 🏳🌈 | |||
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💍 💍 🍗 🧵 🦺 🧵 | |||
👑🎮 👔 🧵 👠 | |||
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💍 🏳🌈 🚬🧨 🏳🌈⚽ ⚽ 🧨 💍💍 👑💸 | |||
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==Reading Writing and Reasearch Methodologies== | ==Reading Writing and Reasearch Methodologies== | ||
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* ''What is a loot box?'' with everyone in class | * ''What is a loot box?'' with everyone in class | ||
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/16022022-ste<3 | https://pad.xpub.nl/p/16022022-ste<3 | ||
* Editing the "what is a loot box text in order to make it a content for the publication | |||
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/loot.box.definition | |||
=Producing the loot boxes= | =Producing the loot boxes= | ||
== How can we work together ? == | == How can we work together ? == | ||
For this trimester we decided that we wil have two people facilitating each meeting.<br> | For this trimester we decided that we wil have two people facilitating each meeting.<br> | ||
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And I feel that in this trimester we had a better communication. <br> | And I feel that in this trimester we had a better communication. <br> | ||
A more horizontal desicion making. More efficient meetings. <br> | A more horizontal desicion making. More efficient meetings. <br> | ||
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/SI17_summaries_of_group_meetings <br> | |||
But again. Several decisions | But again. Several decisions left people dissatisfied. <br> | ||
In our last meeting we needed to decide on the content of the box. There was a lot of frustration and many people felt that their voices weren't heard.<br> | In our last meeting we needed to decide on the content of the box. There was a lot of frustration and many people felt that their voices weren't heard in the end.<br> | ||
Ι see that when time is pushing and we need to make quick decisions for important things, there is the risk that the communication becomes more violent. <br> | Ι see that when time is pushing and we need to make quick decisions for important things, there is the risk that the communication becomes more violent. <br> | ||
How can work we together in a big team and each one of us would feel that has a desired place on it? <br> | How can we work we together in a big team and each one of us would feel that has a desired place on it? <br> | ||
That is a process. | That is a process. <br> | ||
[[File: | Then I started reading Mutual Aid to find some answers. (stil reading it) | ||
After our last and dramatic meeting, we decided to dristibute the work in 3 different groups.<br> | |||
''Team 1 would be responsible for the inside of the box, team 2 would be resposponsible for the box and team 3 would create the LB's public and experience during the launch.'' | |||
[[File:277182374 556011799432236 7939430628560802519 n.jpg|thumb]center]] | |||
[[File:Diagram of distribution4.jpg|thumb]center]] | |||
== Team 1 and 80000 notes == | |||
Team 1 (erica, kamo, mitsa and supi) needed to decide what would be inside of the loot box. Most of the people of the whole team, wanted to use the different contributions that each one of us has created during the classes.<br> Our group at first had a hard time: | |||
* To decide on which contributions would go inside the box | |||
* How the different contents would be connected to each other by one surface. | |||
* While trying different surfaces, several contents wouldn't work (for example the idea of printing all the contents on a jigsaw puzzle) | |||
* We didn't want to work on other people's projects so we needed to see what would be our role. | |||
[[File:Photo 2022-03-27 13-15-37.jpg|thumb]frameless|center]] | |||
After our first long meeting, kamo and erica proposed the idea to print the whole publication on postit blocks. | |||
We continues with that idea | |||
* as most of our contents were text based | |||
* we wanted to experiment with the perfomativity of printing text into a postit format. | |||
* postits are widely used during working time: From writing down tasks, to mapping a whole wall with notes and instructions that are used during a production moment. | |||
* so we would have a format that speaks already about working time | |||
* letting us to play with the boundaries of working and leasure time | |||
---> [https://pad.xpub.nl/p/post-it pad for the postit idea presentation and discussion] | |||
<br> | |||
The next step was to see how the hell we would print on a postit format. We were quite ambitious, aiming on 900000 postit in total. 900 for 100 boxes. <br> | |||
Reality made us reformulate. As we couldn't outsource our print into postit format, we decided that we could print our blocks without gluing them. <br> | |||
In the end they were like memo notes, that could be easily spread and combined with each other. We were still working with our idea to use the language of production as a format to print on. | |||
<br> | |||
====steps:==== | |||
* setting note generator with web to print (kamo) | |||
* talking with the print shops and arranging the outsourcing ( mostly erica with help from supi and mitsa) | |||
* printing all our contents to note format and play with them to understand the performativity of the format ('''we had a very nice collective moment spreading the prints on the table''') | |||
* editing all of our contents (mostly mitsa on the collective ones. the individual ones were edited by its individual) | |||
* design of the notes : 1. how much text would be on the note 2. the size of the text 3. the position of the text 4. the index and the chapter page design (design in figma) | |||
* design desicions mostly from all of us | |||
* design details from kamo and supi | |||
====Resources==== | |||
* https://pad.xpub.nl/p/post-it (pad with the first draft of the postits and an ongoing discussion) | |||
* https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sheet/edit/Opp4ZQKXg3b0yU6OvMRJkv0j/ (table with all the possible contents, the ones we used and the ones we didn't used) | |||
* https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/pad/p/team-1-030322 (pad with the resources of team 1) | |||
* https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/pad/p/team-1-task-list (pad with the to do list of team 1) | |||
* https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/post-it-contents/ (git with the contents as md files) | |||
* https://www.figma.com/file/wVdpA2iwKN3hT9YXONqXTj/SI17?node-id=2%3A147 (figma files of the collective designs of the notes) | |||
====What each contect contributed to the box==== | |||
* What is a loot box? (collective definition of the loot box) | |||
* Crossword imaginary grid game (productive play, glossary definitions, games, gamification, ideology) | |||
* One-sentence game ideas (playiability, fiction) | |||
* Nim Fanfic (organisation, hierarchy, fiction, a bit cute and sad) | |||
* The murderous history of loot boxes (defining loot box through talking about mimic, appropriation) | |||
* Unfinished thoughts (productivity, play, blur, walking inside lootbox, adventure) | |||
* The leader (working environment sarcasm, cards, play, appropriating inspo quotes) | |||
* Connect[less] (networking critique, inspo, precarity,play) | |||
* X-quisite branch (collective drawing tool, play) | |||
* Katamari Fanfic (fiction, rolling, messy, accumulation critique, sarcasm) | |||
* Life Hacks (toxic positivity, cheap solutions, accesibility, optimisation, sarcasm) | |||
* Gaming can make a better world (gamification, work environment, working time and leisure time blur, karaoke,sing) | |||
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== | ====PDF of the printed publication==== | ||
[[File:Si17-orange.pdf|thumb]]<br> | |||
[[File:Si17-purple.pdf|thumb]] | |||
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== putting them inside boxes == | |||
* helping on the assembling of the boxes | |||
* production line on putting the notes inside the boxes | |||
[[File:Assembling.jpg|thumb]] | |||
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== si17 website == | == si17 website == | ||
https://issue.xpub.nl/17/index.html <br> | https://issue.xpub.nl/17/index.html <br> | ||
my role was mostly on the curation of the contents | |||
==publishing the lootbox== | |||
[[File:Photo 2022-03-28 23-48-15.jpg|thumb]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 18:18, 11 April 2022
Collective text about Special Issue 17
Dear Player,
I found you for a reason. Welcome to my productive space. Here play meets work. Time is ordered in unusual ways and patterns unravel. Together, we mess with the boundaries between leisure and labour.
How are your boundaries? Maybe you shouldn’t go to work tomorrow. production line But could you really follow your own schedule? post it on a table Would you be more productive if you chose when to work?
I never rest and I never work.
Encounter me at Page not Found, in The Hague, or download my contents and play with them below.
Make all the notes you find inside me your own. Curate them, spread them, mark them, scratch them, add to them, subtract from them, play with them! post it on a table Lay them on any surface and reorganise them.
However you decide to take care of me, remember:
I found you for a reason.
The box
Personal reflection
On the Special 17 I put my attention on how can we work as group with more care. How can we have our individual needs met, while still we meet the production deadlines. I have a lot to learn on how to express my needs and how I can contribute in a non-violent group communication. In terms of the publication, I co-developed and co-created the production of the contents. Mostly, I edited the collective inputs, while I participated in the overall process of designing and outsourcing our material.
Approaching the Loot Box through Gamification
Special Issue #17
One-sentence game ideas
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2022_onesentencegameideas
Collective reading of the texts
- Rules of play defining games with kamo and erica
- Taylorism 2:0: Gamification, scientific management and the capitalist appropriation of play with alex, chae, kamo and erica
- Gamification as twenty-first-century ideology with chae and erica
- Notes on deconstructing the popular with alex, chae erica and kamo
solo reading and annotating
- Well played by Vicky Osterweil
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/well_played
- We are all very anxious by the Institute for Precarious Consciousness
- Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory by Raymond Williams
- Game Modding: Cross-Over Mutation and Unwelcome Gifts by Anne-Marie Schleiner
- Wages against housework by Silvia Federici
- Chapter 2: PWNing Leisure" from "Play Like a Feminist by Shira Chess"
How to turn players into payers map
with Supi, Emma and Gersande
Fanfiction Katamari
with erica and kamo
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/katamari-fanfiction
https://issue.xpub.nl/17/katamari/
Can gaming make a better world?
the karaoke video by chae
https://media.xpub.nl/2022/SI17/karaoke-Final.mp4
Re-writing the lyrics of Video killed the radio star to talk about gamification in real life.
The new lyrics will be used for karaoke performances
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/si17-karaoke
Lyrics final version
Let's get straight into it!
I wake up early every day to be the best Don't close the mac cuz there's no need for me to rest My job is like a game that's why I feelso blessed Oh, a, oh
They took the fun out of my creativity (BUT) I'm responsible for my stability (AND) My mentor said 'Self-motivation is the key! 20 points I did a good job! 50 points I did a better job!
Gaming could make a promising world Gaming should make a fulfilling world Gamify your entire day Oh-a-a-a oh
Waiting the host to let me enter the zoom call Checking my emails while I'm having healthy lunch My job is like a game but why I feel so stressed Oh-a oh-a Is this my leisure time? Oh-a oh-a Is this my working time?
Gaming could make a healthier world Gaming should make a happier world Manage life through all your apps Get some rest and back to work"
Oh-a-aho oh x2
Gaming could make an easier world Gaming should make a better world
If you fail then don't complain Try your best and play the game Life is better when you may gamify all the way Can't go on anymore x2
Gaming can't make a promising world Gaming can't make a healthier world Gaming can't make a happier world Gaming can't make an easier world Gaming can't make a better world
Gaming can't make a fulfilling world Gaming can't make a healthier world" Gaming can't make a happier world Gaming can't make an easier world Gaming can't make a better world
Future Lootbox idea-proposal after a discussion with erica in a bar
Starting an analysis and making open questions for defining the world of our loot box
analysis
A loot box contains objects that create a desire but this desire only makes sense inside the world of a particular game. In the the other way around, the loot box is desirable, because it provides you with specific objects that makes you progress inside a game.
- the materiliaty of the desire for a loot box
- the objects inside of it that make you progress in the game
- the process of conquering it or
- the exciting surprise for finding it by chance
- the choreography for opening it
- that it is a reward, a positive reinforcement
- that it is exclusive or rare
The game designer decides the way that someone is going to obtain a loot box
1.Loot boxes are often given to players during play, for instance as rewards for leveling up their character or completing a multiplayer game without quitting.
Gamers work their way to get a loot box through their devotion to the game.
2.Loot boxes may also be given out through promotions outside of gameplay, such as watching certain streaming events.
Gamers as fans devote their time in events outside of the game, they get the loot box as a reward.
3.Players can also buy them directly, most often with real-world funds but also through in-game currency.
Gamers as addicted consumers that purchase the loot box with real money.
general idea
By creating a loot box we are going to appropriate a hegemonic object, a profit mechanism inside a video game that make players keep interest -and in the worst case senario get addicted- to that game.
lootbox inside a scenario
Starting from the premise that lootboxes are a catchy and tricky response to the desire of progression, of expansion of agency, of richness in a game, I want to reflect on how lootboxes are 1) a system for the management and distribution of resources and 2) objects that strategically build a system of meaning and a world/scenario around themselves in order to legitimize that same desire and use it as a fuel to keep going on. Lootboxes are an immediate acquisition of resources that allow or contribute the progression in the game. In this way they're strictly related to the world they are part of, and they are consistent with it; not only in terms of aesthetics, but also for the specific affordances the items inside lootboxes bring to the main character/player. F.e. a lootbox that gives you a magic sword, cannot make sense in the real world, and the desire of it only make sense in a scenario in which that same sword helps you to more easily reach your objective in the gameplay... (magic circle..?)(what item can be useful in real life?)
Designing a lootbox means designing the context and the world around it. or at least it means to intervene in the existing context in which the lootbox is purchased: What does it mean to purchase a lootbox in the context of xpub? and in the context of Page not Found? and in the context of a mainstream commercial bookstore? Which kind of tools are we proding our public with? which kind of world/scenario are these tools talking about and how their use affect this scenario?
I want to be mindful about the use value of our lootbox: where do we position it in the tension between existing use-values (mostly dictated by a capitalistic system that wants to make profit) and other-use-values (originated by creating a context around our lootbox that doesn't follow the logic of profit) is it the use-value what triggers the desire for purchasing a lootbox? can we think of other values that can trigger desire? if play/leisure stress on the uselessness of activities (and time) I think this should be an important point to keep in mind.
suggestion: would it be useful to map the kind of affordances that items inside lootboxes bring? either with a more historic approach and a more speculative one
other suggestions:
I was triggered by the previous text we had to read, when it was talking about skins and personalised interface mods: it would be nice also to think at the lootbox not only in terms of an object, but also in terms of switch of perspective for example: you open a lootbox and you are another character, and there are things that you can do or that you have access to in the gameplay only if you have a specific character or. the lootbox is a skin that you put on things, an interface that gives meaning to the contents of the special issue in a particular way idk I have to elaborate more on this
About the scenario:
We need to define what qualities of the world that we live in constitute our game world. We know that it is going to be selled in the PNF and we are going to have a launch there. But why our public will be getting rewarded with a loot box?
Who is our public?
What are the characteristics of our public?
What do they desire?
Maybe we should consider the different identities of our public and their different occupations. For example, in a video game a human male football player desires different loot than a female elf warrior.
Also, PNF can be a cultural space inside our game world and not the game world itself. A part of the system of our game world. As it is in real life, it is a cultural space within a city and a city is part of a country that have certain rules, values, working conditions and legislations, gender roles, ethnicity roles, dominant ideologies and power dynamics etc.
and this can go on and on... or/and it can conncect PNF with other systems
So for me in order to engage better on what will be our loot box, I think it is important to decide what is the story that our public is going to play in?? For example:
Do we want to talk about gamification in its different applications? Working time and leisure time that depend on class, gender, ethnicity etc (interesctional approach)?
Because loot box is a reward mechanism inside a specific game-system. And our game design can expose or transcend the dominant ideologies of our (game) world. And it can be site specific connecting it with the dutch context. [or an intersectional context that we will define]
Prototyping
Two prototyping experiments about the loot box
Τrying to generate puzzles through emojis
#1st #LOOT BOX # it works like this # call the random function # define the characters that are going to be picked randomly # define with and height # then write a code that for the range of (height,width) it prints the random characters #print ' ' from random import choice characters = ['👓', '👠', '🧨', '📣', '⚽', '🦺', '🏳🌈', '💍','👑','💻','🚬','🍗','🧵'] #numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,] #height = 1 for x in range(3): print(choice(characters), end=) print(' ')
🦺🧨🦺
#2nd #Objects and assumptions from random import choice characters = ['🎮','💸','👔','👠', '🧨', '📣', '⚽', '🦺', '🏳🌈', '💍','👑','💻','🚬','🍗','🧵',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '] width = 50 height = 50 for y in range(height): for x in range(width): print(choice(characters), end=) print()
👑 🚬 🍗👠 👔 🧨 💍 🎮
🎮 👑🍗 📣 👠 🏳🌈 👑 🎮 🚬 💻 🧨
⚽ 🧵 👑👔 🧨🧨🎮 💍 🧵 💍 🚬 💻 🧵 🦺💻 👠🏳🌈 💻 👔 👑 🧨 👔 🚬 🧨 🍗 💸 📣 💍 💍 🧵🎮 🏳🌈🍗
👠 🏳🌈 ⚽ 📣 🚬⚽ 💸🎮 🎮🎮 💸
🍗 🧨 💻 🧨 🧵 💍 🏳🌈 🎮 🧨 🧨 💸 🧨 👑 🏳🌈 📣 🚬 👔 📣 📣 🏳🌈 🦺 ⚽ 🏳🌈 💍 🏳🌈🧨 💻🚬 👠 💻 🎮 👔 🎮 🍗 ⚽ 💻 👠📣 📣 ⚽ 🏳🌈 👑 🍗 💸 👔 🎮 💻 🎮 👔 👔 🍗 🏳🌈 👑 👠 🧨 🎮 👔 💍 🧵 💍
👠 🚬 👑🏳🌈💻 🦺 🏳🌈 🎮 👠🚬 👠 🧵 💍 🚬🦺 ⚽ 📣 🍗
👠 📣 💍 🚬 💸 ⚽ 💻
🍗 🧨 🧨 💍 🦺 🦺 🧨 🦺 🧨
⚽ 🚬 💍 🧵 💻 💍 🚬 💸
🧨 🍗 ⚽ 💻 💍 💍 🚬 🏳🌈 🧵
👠 👔🍗 🎮 🦺 💍 🚬 🧨
🧵 💍 🧨
🦺 🧵 🎮💍 📣 ⚽ 👑 👠 🎮👔 📣 🎮 🍗 📣 👔 👠 🚬 🚬
💸 👑 💍 💸💍 🚬 ⚽
💍 🎮 ⚽ 🍗 🎮 📣🚬 🎮 🎮🚬 🏳🌈 📣 📣 🍗 ⚽ 🍗 👠 💸 💻 🎮
🚬 👔 📣👠🍗 🚬 🧵 🎮 🧵 💍
💻 🍗 🍗 🚬 💻 🚬👠 🍗 🚬
🎮 👔 🦺 👑 📣 🧵
📣 👔 🚬📣 🎮
🚬 👔 ⚽ 📣 🍗 🦺 👔 💻 💍 💍 🍗 🧵 🦺 🧵 👑🎮 👔 🧵 👠
🧨 👑 💍 ⚽ 👠 💻 🧵 💍 🏳🌈 🚬🧨 🏳🌈⚽ ⚽ 🧨 💍💍 👑💸 ⚽🚬 🚬 ⚽ 👔 ⚽ 🦺 🧨👔 🧵 👠 📣 🍗 🚬 🧵📣💻 💍
Reading Writing and Reasearch Methodologies
- Noise cancelling devices with kamo, chae and erica
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/noice_cancelling_devices_turns_off_also_your_inner
- making the Glossary of productive play with everyone in class
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/02022022
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Glossary_of_productive_play
- What is a loot box? with everyone in class
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/16022022-ste<3
- Editing the "what is a loot box text in order to make it a content for the publication
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/loot.box.definition
Producing the loot boxes
How can we work together ?
For this trimester we decided that we wil have two people facilitating each meeting.
This helped us a lot.
And I feel that in this trimester we had a better communication.
A more horizontal desicion making. More efficient meetings.
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/SI17_summaries_of_group_meetings
But again. Several decisions left people dissatisfied.
In our last meeting we needed to decide on the content of the box. There was a lot of frustration and many people felt that their voices weren't heard in the end.
Ι see that when time is pushing and we need to make quick decisions for important things, there is the risk that the communication becomes more violent.
How can we work we together in a big team and each one of us would feel that has a desired place on it?
That is a process.
Then I started reading Mutual Aid to find some answers. (stil reading it)
After our last and dramatic meeting, we decided to dristibute the work in 3 different groups.
Team 1 would be responsible for the inside of the box, team 2 would be resposponsible for the box and team 3 would create the LB's public and experience during the launch.
Team 1 and 80000 notes
Team 1 (erica, kamo, mitsa and supi) needed to decide what would be inside of the loot box. Most of the people of the whole team, wanted to use the different contributions that each one of us has created during the classes.
Our group at first had a hard time:
- To decide on which contributions would go inside the box
- How the different contents would be connected to each other by one surface.
- While trying different surfaces, several contents wouldn't work (for example the idea of printing all the contents on a jigsaw puzzle)
- We didn't want to work on other people's projects so we needed to see what would be our role.
After our first long meeting, kamo and erica proposed the idea to print the whole publication on postit blocks. We continues with that idea
- as most of our contents were text based
- we wanted to experiment with the perfomativity of printing text into a postit format.
- postits are widely used during working time: From writing down tasks, to mapping a whole wall with notes and instructions that are used during a production moment.
- so we would have a format that speaks already about working time
- letting us to play with the boundaries of working and leasure time
---> pad for the postit idea presentation and discussion
The next step was to see how the hell we would print on a postit format. We were quite ambitious, aiming on 900000 postit in total. 900 for 100 boxes.
Reality made us reformulate. As we couldn't outsource our print into postit format, we decided that we could print our blocks without gluing them.
In the end they were like memo notes, that could be easily spread and combined with each other. We were still working with our idea to use the language of production as a format to print on.
steps:
- setting note generator with web to print (kamo)
- talking with the print shops and arranging the outsourcing ( mostly erica with help from supi and mitsa)
- printing all our contents to note format and play with them to understand the performativity of the format (we had a very nice collective moment spreading the prints on the table)
- editing all of our contents (mostly mitsa on the collective ones. the individual ones were edited by its individual)
- design of the notes : 1. how much text would be on the note 2. the size of the text 3. the position of the text 4. the index and the chapter page design (design in figma)
- design desicions mostly from all of us
- design details from kamo and supi
Resources
- https://pad.xpub.nl/p/post-it (pad with the first draft of the postits and an ongoing discussion)
- https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sheet/edit/Opp4ZQKXg3b0yU6OvMRJkv0j/ (table with all the possible contents, the ones we used and the ones we didn't used)
- https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/pad/p/team-1-030322 (pad with the resources of team 1)
- https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/pad/p/team-1-task-list (pad with the to do list of team 1)
- https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/post-it-contents/ (git with the contents as md files)
- https://www.figma.com/file/wVdpA2iwKN3hT9YXONqXTj/SI17?node-id=2%3A147 (figma files of the collective designs of the notes)
What each contect contributed to the box
- What is a loot box? (collective definition of the loot box)
- Crossword imaginary grid game (productive play, glossary definitions, games, gamification, ideology)
- One-sentence game ideas (playiability, fiction)
- Nim Fanfic (organisation, hierarchy, fiction, a bit cute and sad)
- The murderous history of loot boxes (defining loot box through talking about mimic, appropriation)
- Unfinished thoughts (productivity, play, blur, walking inside lootbox, adventure)
- The leader (working environment sarcasm, cards, play, appropriating inspo quotes)
- Connect[less] (networking critique, inspo, precarity,play)
- X-quisite branch (collective drawing tool, play)
- Katamari Fanfic (fiction, rolling, messy, accumulation critique, sarcasm)
- Life Hacks (toxic positivity, cheap solutions, accesibility, optimisation, sarcasm)
- Gaming can make a better world (gamification, work environment, working time and leisure time blur, karaoke,sing)
PDF of the printed publication
File:Si17-orange.pdf
File:Si17-purple.pdf
putting them inside boxes
- helping on the assembling of the boxes
- production line on putting the notes inside the boxes
si17 website
https://issue.xpub.nl/17/index.html
my role was mostly on the curation of the contents