SI17

Approaching the Loot Box through Gamification

Special Issue #17

Collective reading of the texts

• Rules of play defining games with camo and erica
• Taylorism 2:0: Gamification, scientific management and the capitalist appropriation of play with alex, chae, camo and erica
• Gamification as twenty-first-century ideology with chae and erica
• Notes on deconstructing the popular with alex, camo, chae and erica

One-sentence game ideas

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2022_onesentencegameideas

Fanfiction Katamari

with camo and erica

link

Prototyping

Two prototyping experiments about the loot box
trying 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()