SI17

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

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

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.
page with our group meetings' summaries
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)

80000 postits

... and after the historical (and dramatic) meeting 3, we formed three groups. Each one would take care of a different aspect of the publication.
first idea by kamo and erica and altogether we started building on that
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/post-it

si17 website

https://issue.xpub.nl/17/index.html
my role mostly on the curation of the contents