User:Supisara/Special Issue 17

Special Issue #17: Productive Play

Group exercises

Date	Pad	Description	Output
19/01/22	SI17	Ideology & gamification	One-sentence game ideas with everyone
19/01/22	RW&RM	Annotation of an object of ideology	Map with Gersande, Carmen, Emma, Miriam
02/02/22	RW&RM	Productive Play glossary	Glossary wiki Contributions (with Kimberley): "tempo vs. rhythm", "collective sensitivity(sensibility)", "artificial standard"
08/02/22	SI17	Modding, fanfic	Miller's Hollow fanfic wiki with Kimberley & Chae
16/02/22	RW&RM	Describing the loot box

Research

Topic	Description
Loot box as an AE script/plugin	workflow tools: "silence remover"
Loot box variations	Incubators
Loot box animations	Special moves, rush launches

Observations

• sound and motion-based triggers
• time-based triggers and actions
• surprise pipeline: a "surprise" but only for those at the receiving end?

Experiments

• Arrow maze Bitsy game (test/WIP), inspired by the "loops and traps" maze. Goal: create a double maze where the arrows alternate between two directions, where the avatar is also an arrow.

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• From workshop game ideas with Steve. Game concept (abstract): delayed rewards/no thrill of the chase

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  repel to attract

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  individual-collective time sync

• Etherpad ↔︎ Bitsy jam with Jian

Deliverables

"This Box Found You For A Reason"

Phase	Output
1.) Processing	1.) 2.) 3.) Group meeting facilitation with Emma on topics re: share & recap of prototypes, price & accessibility of the loot box, community & launch––see pad, summary
2.1) Production: "Unfinished Thoughts"	Bitsy game with Jian 1.) Pad: Collaborative discussion 2.) Pad: Individual reflection 3.) Pad: Collaborative reflection 4.) Bitsy: Individual experiments: first draft 5.) Bitsy: Combined experiments 6.) Bitsy: The finished "Unfinished Thoughts"
2.2) Production: Inside the box/content	With Erica, Mitsa, Kamo 1.) Post-its 1.1.) Curation: (see: pad 1) 1.2.) Concept: (see: pad 2) 1.3.) Design: (see: Figma,) 2.) Website 2.1.) Overview: 2.2.) Mockups: 2.3.) Setup: vscode, git
3.) Launch	1.) SI17 Visual identity 1.1.) Contribution: "Special Issue 17" Bitsy font with Jian. Applications: 1.1.1.) The loot box 1.1.2.) Event signage 1.1.3.) Website 2.) Setup 2.) Box assembly with Team 1, Jian, Alex: (see: production line diagram by Alex) 3.) "Unfinished Thoughts"

In detail:

Reflection

See wiki.