User:Tash/grad prototyping3
Prototyping 09 April
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 timeTest archiving script over at least 10 mins of activityGameplay: prepare at least 4 email addressesGameplay: prepare cards & printGameplay: make handbook version & printWiki: make & populate all action / tactic pagesWiki: make at least 3 characters to choose fromBuy 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: try to move wiki to a new mysql database
- export using backupDump.php --current --output dump.xml
- sudo php importDump.php < /home/pi/dump.xml