User:Tash/grad prototyping3

Prototyping 09 April

Guilded Youth, text-based adventure game

Guilded Youth, text-based adventure game

Takeaways from last assessment:

• important to build context & urgency
• installation at exhibition should situate the game within warnet culture
• cards may not be the most suitable format?

• option 1: game manual / player's handbook
  • print element, places it again within copyshop / warnet context
  • physical element, to counterbalance online aspect of the game
  • references the tactical handbook (military, troll handbooks, counterculture manuals etc)

• option 2: text-based browser game
  • brings it into the realm of videogames
  • more immersive gameplay
  • technically difficult (how to do multiplayer? how to incorporate into wiki?

• questions:
  • how to keep the tension between chance vs choice ?
  • roles of different project elements: wiki as rabbithole and input point, handbook / cards / text-based prompts as tools and the game as performance

Planning

• April: finalize formats & develop game
• April - May: 2 more play sessions (with Marlies / shayan / jacintha?)
• June: final documentation and production

Wiki sitemap

To-do (Test play 2)

• Finalize Plan A and Plan B for test location and time
• Test archiving script over at least 10 mins of activity
• Gameplay: prepare at least 4 email addresses
• Gameplay: prepare cards & print
• Gameplay: make handbook version & print
• Wiki: make & populate all action / tactic pages
• Wiki: make at least 3 characters to choose from
• Buy papers & stationery

Prototyping 06 May

Debugging Mediawiki

• problem: mediawiki categories were not saving onto database
• running the maintenance script rebuildall.php was a temp solution
• more research: turns out there seems to a be a problem in the php extension settings, and errors with looking up certain shared database files
• working on it with Andre: perhaps the sqlite database is creating errors
• solution: reinstall wiki with mysql database, move content to new wiki
• export using backupDump.php --current --output dump.xml
• sudo php importDump.php < /home/pi/dump.xml
• with the new database, jobs seem to run smoothly, categories are updating!

Wiki to print pipelines

• using as starting point: https://github.com/wdka-publicationSt/print-kiosk-ii (LaTex) and https://gitlab.com/Mondotheque/RadiatedBook/blob/master/download_wiki.py (weasyprint)
• option 1: download html files from wiki using API, order them into 1 html and then make PDF file with weasyprint
• option 2: possibly using ICML files and InDesign, which may be an 'in-between' solution