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km0 3 years ago
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Have a simple conversation
while doodling.
- "Let's start: check out the rules of the game!"
- Rules
- 1) Pick up a board for two or three players depending on how many you are.
- |-
2) Each of you
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What if the winner is the one who is the first to leave the game? #PlotTwist! What would that change in the game? And what in the
real life?
- Reflection Questions
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How to enjoy playing this game? Get a drink and sit down with your friend(s).
Pick a board and start
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game partner anything
else about networking and
social connections?
- Game Boards
- img: connectless-2p.png
alt: connect[less] for two players
- PLACEHOLDER IMAGE
- PLACEHOLDER IMAGE
- PLACEHOLDER IMAGE (FOR 2 PLAYERS)
- img: connectless-3p.png
alt: connect[less] for three players
- PLACEHOLDER
- PLACEHOLDER
- PLACEHOLDER (IMG FOR 3 PLAYERS)
- PLACEHOLDER QR TO ALEX'S WIKI???
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alt: The murderous history of loot boxes
- We know loot boxes as treasure chests with teeth, but their origins made for cooler, more complex monsters.
- "Sometimes its obvious. Would there really be a treasure chest in the middle of such an unremarkable room, just begging you to open it?"
- Please.
- "Sometimes its obvious. Would there really be a treasure chest in the middle of such an unremarkable room, just begging you to open it? Please."
- "Other times its almost impossible to tell."
- "There will be an imperfection in the shape if youre lucky, maybe a misplaced link of chain on the side or a wood grain that seems just slightly off."
- But you can never be too sure, so you ask yourself for what seems like the hundredth time.
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- "Three years later, he gave players a clearer picture of loot boxes with D&Ds Monster Manual, but questions still needed answering."
- "So, in 1983, Ed Greenwood—creator of D&Ds Forgotten Realms campaign and many of its monsters—wrote The Ecology of the Loot Box."
- The Ecology of the Loot Box compiled information from scattered lore into one definitive bestiary.
- He also made up a lot of new details to fill in gaps in player understanding.
- '"That was and is the fun in D&D for me, making stuff up," Greenwood tells me over email.'
- |-
He also made up a lot of new details to fill in gaps in player understanding.
"That was and is the fun in D&D for me, making stuff up," Greenwood tells me over email.
- "In ways consistent with existing lore, so as to weave new portions of an existing tapestry."
- "Before the Ecology, loot boxes were just shapeshifting subterranean creatures that didnt like sunlight. Incredibly flexible hermits, basically."

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- img: img_nim_small.png
alt: "human nims"
- "1: Psst."
- "Silence."
- "1: Pssst!"
- "2: What?!"
- nw: "1: Psst."
se: "Silence."
- ne: "1: Pssst!"
sw: "2: What?!"
- "1: I'm not talking to you."
- "2: 3."
- "3: Hm?"
- "2: I think 1 is trying to talk to you."
- "3: What is it?"
- "1: I'm lonely."
- "3: We already talked about this."
- nw: "2: 3."
se: "3: Hm?"
- nw: "2: I think 1 is trying to talk to you."
se: "3: What is it?"
- ne: "1: I'm lonely."
sw: "3: We already talked about this."
- |-
1: Well it still hasn't
been solved.
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no witness.
- "1: No one to share my point of view with."
- "1: To get any mundane experience across I need a waterfall of information, to slightly hope one will get some kind of input and they might never understand."
- |-
3: I understand you!
Or at least try too.
- |-
2: Quiet you two,
I'm practising.
- |-
- nw: |-
3: I understand you! Or at least try too.
se: |-
2: Quiet you two,
I'm practising.
- ne: |-
1: And when I go,
I go alone.
- |-
sw: |-
3: Well at least you don't
have to suffer the
unreasonable ones
of this row.
- |-
- nw: |-
1: And when I fear,
I fear alone.
- "3: You talk to me, sometimes."
- |-
sw: "3: You talk to me, sometimes."
- ne: |-
7: Is 1 having a
moment again?
- "3: Yes, yes, we're trying to figure it out."
- "2: Sssh."
- "6: This again?"
- "2: 1 is trying to annihilate us again."
- "6: Let them be, they will be picked on soon enough again."
- "2: Hmm."
- |-
sw: "3: Yes, yes, we're trying to figure it out."
- nw: "2: Sssh."
se: "6: This again?"
- nw: "2: 1 is trying to annihilate us again."
se: "6: Let them be, they will be picked on soon enough again."
- sw: "2: Hmm."
nw: |-
1: And when I dream,
I dream alone.
- |-
- nw: |-
7: They got everyone
up again.
- "3: Everyone's up now."
- "1: Well not enough."
- |-
se: "3: Everyone's up now."
- nw: "1: Well not enough."
se: |-
3: Let's keep it quiet
for now.
- "1: You know?"
- "3: Tell me."
- |-
- nw: "1: You know?"
se: "3: Tell me."
- nw: |-
1: In dreams...
I walk with you.
- "3: Roy?"
se: "3: Roy?"
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- It works outside the context of a game.
- When the game gets tough, the loot box offers you a shortcut.
- Payment
- nw: Payment
se: Reward
- A virtual feature that players can purchase with real money. It is usually available in free-to-play games or full-price games.
- "You don't get it for free, and you don't know what you get."
- A promise for a virtual treasure that is purchased with real money. You buy a virtual treasure hoping it contains something valuable within the world of the game.
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you feel that anything
is possible.
- "It's like the cat in the box: is she dead or is she alive? She is both until you open the box."
- Surprise
- An entertaining element.
- |-
It keeps the players
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Surprise that comes
with consequences.
- Reward
- An immediate reward.
- The immediate reward makes it fun. The risk comes with pleasure.
- It derives from the loot, a bunch of goodies that you can get as a reward after you conquer a super boss or level up.
- A reward after accomplishing a really heroic task.
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- Sometimes the game doesnt reach its full potential without buying a loot box. That makes players feel compelled to make a purchase.
- You will get better if you buy a loot box.
- Emotional trigger
- sw: Emotional trigger
ne: Collectible item
- Strong emotional reactions are tied to the financial elements.
- Pleasure
- Thrill
- Excitement
- Desire
- Disappointment
- nw: Excitement
se: Disappointment
- ne: Desire
sw: Exploitation
- "Even if you don't get exactly what you wish for, you will get something, and you feel somehow rewarded."
- "It's collectable."
- Incremental rewards
- It is disguised as safe and innocent.
- You can keep opening loot boxes forever.
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of it.
- Loot box as currency exchange
- The game coin
- Collectible item
- Real money
- Power-Up
- ne: Game coin
sw: Real money
- nw: Power-Up
se: Pleasure
- Designed to be addictive
- Very real addictive mechanisms.
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potentially forever.
- From habit to addiction.
- You pay money to obtain something new.
- Risk
- Ritual
- Destiny
- sw: Ritual
ne: Thrill
- nw: Risk
se: Destiny
- It hacks the temporality of a game.
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for the distribution
and management
of resources.
- Exploitation
- The potentially endless collection creates artificial needs.
- Exploitative fun.
- The benefits for you are emotional. The benefits for the game platforms are financial.
- "A money-making mechanism that uses real-world money in video games' worlds."
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missing out)
- The surprise mechanism and exclusivity of the loot box creates a constant FOMO.
- Peer pressure
- Social pressure
- Individual engagement
- ne: Social pressure
sw: Individual engagement
- A personalized 1 to 1 interaction
- 1 to machine interaction
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