User:Tash/grad prototyping3

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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

Tash-Wiki-sitemap.jpg


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: try to move wiki to a new mysql database
  • export using BackupDump.php --current --output dump.xml
  • php importDump.php < dump.xml