Games and culture / online toxicity
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Breaking the magic circle
Procedural rhetoric (Bogost)
The Beginner's Guide (game)
You come upon a clearing in that scene. There is a house with faceless mannequins. You accomplish mundane tasks with a single button ‘he didn’t know what happened, but he felt better’.
The idea is that it is the routine that made him feel better (‘him’ has depression). The routine gave him a feeling that he is in control. The procedural rhetoric is trying to show you/ communicate something.
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Gender of E3 presenters
Female in videogames, are we representing them as they are? Lara Croft is not a good representation of a female.
Possible solutions for unconscious bias
- Diversity (culturally) in the team, to prevent the game being a representation of 1 white male
- Diversity in the stakeholders and testers, when designing a game about a exotic place in Africa, test it with people who are known with that area. To prevent cultural appropriation
- Human-centered design, step away from ourselves, try to design for people in general. Trying to create a design process that detaches yourself. The biggest misconception is that whoever you design for is you (not true! That happens very often unconsciously).
New celebrities and parasocial interactions
Create social bonds - social endorsement systems
Needs protection from abusing it for gain, limit availability (scarcity improves value).
Needs to be meaningful and salient, integrate with actual matchmaking and behavior (shadow banning (putting the toxic players together, leaving matches will lower endorsement).
Biggest danger is that it must not be punishing, but trying to reward can be problematic. It can be abused to just get that reward, which will make it meaningless. External rewards can diminish internal motivation, rather than work with loss aversion.
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