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<div id="content"><h1 id="games-and-rituals-kick-off-sessions">Games and Rituals, Kick off
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sessions</h1>
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id="we-are-looking-at-rituals-and-their-overlap-with-video-games-as-a-way-to-explore-forbidden-or-otherwise-lost-knowledge-erased-by-oppressive-systems.">We
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are looking at rituals and their overlap with video games as a way to
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explore “forbidden” or otherwise lost knowledge erased by oppressive
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systems.</h2>
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<h3 id="on-rituals-and-traditions">On Rituals and Traditions</h3>
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<p>What is a ritual? And tradition? What makes a ritual “ritual”, and
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how does it differ from the traditions? Or are the two the same thing?
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What do rituals and traditions mean through the lens of culture,
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location and time? These and other questions we asked ourselves and one
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another during the first few collaborative sessions of this Special
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Issue. We kept talking and reading for hours about the commonalities and
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differences between the two. There is a lot to explore! We went down
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memory lane and shared memories, childhood recollections, and personal
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stories. Perhaps, dear reader, you have your thoughts on this too?</p>
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<p>But let’s enter a parallel universe!</p>
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<h3 id="on-game-and-play">On Game and Play</h3>
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<p>What is a game? And play? What makes a game “game”, and how does it
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differ from play? Or are the two the same thing? What makes a game? It
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is the rules, the limitations, or perhaps the wins and the losses. Do
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you really need to win in order to play? Or were you being played? To
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try to answer some of these questions, we read and collectively
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annotated the chapter “Defining Games” from the book “Rules of Play -
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Game Design Fundamentals” by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman. We
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discovered that games and rituals alike are the gateways to alternative
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ways of relating to Nature, each other and (re)production of life.</p>
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<p>We played together by writing fanfiction and spells, developing
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rituals, and analysing and creating games. What emerged as a tangible
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result from all these discussions is this experimental publication you
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are holding in your hands right now. We named it Console.</p>
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<img src="Candlestarotjoysticks.png" alt="Candles Tarot Joysticks" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Candles Tarot Joysticks</figcaption>
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<img src="Game-ritual-graph-2.jpeg" class="white-caption"
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alt="Graphing the game-ritual field" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Graphing the game-ritual
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field</figcaption>
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<p>Another thing that came out of our first two sessions was the <em>One
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Sentence Ritual</em>. Each week for six weeks in a row, we wrote down a
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ritual of our own and took turns performing the ritual from the list.
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Coffee fortune-telling, hard drive purifications, collective eating,
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sound meditations, and talking to worry dolls made us reflect on the
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content of the week and our lives.</p>
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Mapping somewhere new</figcaption>
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