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title: Crossword Imaginary Grid Game
contents:
- pic: imaginary-crosswords.jpg
- Dear Player, The Crossword Imaginary Grid Game found you for a reason.
- |-
The aim of this game is
to create a crossword
grid with your hands
and explore a part
of the Glossary
of Productive Play.
- |-
There is a printed grid
for you here, but if you
want more, visit the
website of this
Special Issue.
- |-
Take some time (leisure
or productive?), place
the pieces on a surface,
on a wall, on your bed,
on your cat's body..
and start playing!
- |-
Position the coded
papers to recreate
the grid. Follow
the following scheme
for every category:
- pic: imaginarygrid_structure.jpg
- "I know it might sound complicated now, but I promise you that you will understand how to make it work while playing."
- "There are four things you have to keep attention to while creating the grid:"
- 1. A code (e.g. B7), composed of a letter and a number, defines the position in the imaginary grid.
- 2. The papers with the clues are not to be used during the grid's construction.
- 3. A content category gathers all the definitions that are part of the same crossword (e.g. loot box).
- |-
4. The papers having
the same code
could represent
an intersection or
the presence of two
definitions, one
going down and the
other across.
- Find out which is which!
- "If you don't know the word, don't stress yourself out: these crosswords are meant to teach while having fun."
- Yes, you heard that well, you are experiencing Productive Play! Enjoy the time you are taking for yourself! It's okay not to finish it, it's okay to give up, it's okay to still be happy with it.
- "And if you are really unsatisfied, just call some friends and have some fun together!"
- |-
Remember, these are
just instructions not
to get lost. But it's
okay to get lost.
Get lost sometimes.
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Disclaimer: This crossword and its definitions are a combination
of dictionary and encyclopaedic definitions
and our own discussions as a group.
As such, they are meant as an invitation
for further reflection."
- word: Democracy
definition: A form of government in which the people govern themselves, usually by electing bodies of representatives.
direction: V
start: E7
category: Ideology
- word: Communism
definition: A form of government in which the society is based on the common ownership of the means of production, cooperative labour, and freely associated producers that administer production on the basis of a social or common plan.
direction: V
start: A10
category: Ideology
- word: Entertainment
definition: Pleasant leisure activities such as movies, books, video games, tv shows, sporting events, circuses, comedy events, music festivals.
direction: H
start: R2
category: Ideology
- word: Taylorism
definition: A factory management system developed in the late 19th century to increase efficiency by evaluating every step in a manufacturing process and breaking down production into specialized repetitive tasks.
direction: H
start: M5
category: Ideology
- word: Counterculture
definition: It can be present as disturbance or defiance of any current stream as way to protest, as emancipation or contestation.
direction: V
start: C16
category: Ideology
- word: Hegemony
definition: 'Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain. They have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion, like a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.'
direction: H
start: F4
category: Ideology
- word: Mainstream
definition: The principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend that is familiar to the masses and available to the general public.
direction: V
start: D13
category: Ideology
- word: PopCulture
definition: Cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
direction: H
start: A7
category: Ideology
- word: Superstructure
definition: According to the Marxist theory, it refers to society's other relationships and ideas that are not directly related to production. That includes its culture, institutions, political power structures, roles, rituals, religion, media, and state.
direction: V
start: C5
category: Ideology
- word: Base
definition: According to the Marxist theory, it refers to the mode of production that includes the forces and relations of production in a society.
direction: V
start: O2
category: Ideology
- word: Capitalism
definition: '"It is easier to imagine the end of the world that the end of…" an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.'
direction: V
start: H18
category: Ideology
- word: False consciousness
definition: A term used in the Marxist theory to describe the state in which one feels like they are given full agency of their own choices and actions when in fact they are subject to a certain ideology that has come to seem so self-speaking they wouldn't question it.
direction: H
start: P1
category: Ideology
- word: Cost
definition: |-
The price given to
objects to be acquired, produced, maintained, or accomplished.
direction: V
start: J1
category: Loot Box
- word: Exclusive
definition: |-
Available to only a few
people because users
have a limited time
frame to obtain the
loot box.
direction: H
start: L4
category: Loot Box
- word: Collectible
definition: |-
Something that is
considered valuable
because kept as part
of a group of
similar objects.
direction: H
start: J1
category: Loot Box
- word: Addictive
definition: |-
That causes a strong
and harmful need to
regularly have or
do something.
direction: H
start: R2
category: Loot Box
- word: Reward
definition: Something given or received in return or compensation for service, merit, hard work, etc.
direction: H
start: N7
category: Loot Box
- word: Surprise
definition: Something unexpected.
direction: H
start: G3
category: Loot Box
- word: Gambling
definition: The investment will probably not come back, which makes paying for the content of a loot box not just buying but...
direction: H
start: P5
category: Loot Box
- word: Exploitative
definition: |-
When a company
is taking unfair or
unethical advantage
of a person or a
situation for profit.
direction: V
start: G10
category: Loot Box
- word: Addiction
definition: "An uneasy amalgam of several contradictory legacies: a religious one, which has censured excessive drinking, gambling and drug use as moral transgressions; a scientific one, which has characterized alcoholism and drug overuse as biological diseases; and a colloquial one, which has casually applied the term to almost any fixation."
direction: V
start: H3
category: Predatory Schemes in Video Games
- word: HookModel
definition: A business model that is used also in video games to ensure that microtransactions are turned from an occasional event into a rooted activity for gamers. This model functions following different strategies to ensure continuous profiting, like fast thinking processes, gatchas (collectable items), subscriptions, etc.
direction: H
start: G6
category: Predatory Schemes in Video Games
- word: IkeaEffect
definition: A phenomenon that describes how people tend to value an object more if they made or assembled it.
direction: H
start: N3
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- word: Anchoring
definition: A cognitive bias whereby an individual's decisions are influenced by a particular point of reference.
direction: H
start: P5
category: Predatory Schemes in Video Games
- word: ClickFarm
definition: A large group of low-paid workers who are hired to click on paid advertising links.
direction: H
start: K1
category: Predatory Schemes in Video Games
- word: Anxiety
definition: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.
direction: V
start: C13
category: Predatory Schemes in Video Games
- word: Microtransaction
definition: A business model where users can purchase virtual items for small amounts of money. It often appears in free-to-play games, meaning there is no cost to download the game, just a cost to buy the online virtual products.
direction: V
start: C11
category: Predatory Schemes in Video Games
- word: Monetization
definition: The type of process that a video game publisher can use to generate revenue from a video game product. Some in-game purchasing systems could be characterized as unfair or exploitative. These systems describe tactics that capitalize on informational advantages (e.g., behavioural tracking) and data manipulation to optimize offers to incentivize continuous spending, while offering limited or no guarantees or protections, with the potential to exploit vulnerable players (e.g., adolescents, problematic gamers).
direction: H
start: D2
category: Predatory Schemes in Video Games
- word: PAP
definition: When you describe something such as information, writing, or entertainment that you consider to be of no worth, value, nor serious interest.
direction: V
start: C9
category: Predatory Schemes in Video Games
- word: MagicCircle
definition: The space in which the normal rules and reality of the world are suspended and replaced by the artificial reality of a game world.
direction: V
start: F1
category: Predatory Schemes in Video Games
- word: Fandom
definition: It often includes activities such as conventions, writing fictions, participating in online forums and discussions, purchasing merchandise and collector items in order to build a community around a common interest.
direction: H
start: K1
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: GiftEconomy
definition: An alternative mode of exchange to the rationalist calculation of capitalist exchange, where valuables are not sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.
direction: V
start: E5
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: WorldBuilding
definition: The art of creating a new fictional world inside video games realities.
direction: H
start: M4
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: Gift
definition: Something that is given away without any expectation for payback. It allows us to act in a way that is non-alienated and differs considerably from the exchange of commodities with the aim of profit-making.
direction: V
start: L14
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: Mod
definition: Modification that is used to change the behaviour of a game to make it more fun for every gamer.
direction: V
start: K8
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: Cheat
definition: Modification used to gain an unfair and unauthorized advantage in a game to make it more fun, accessible, and easy for the user who is playing.
direction: H
start: P7
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: FreeWork
definition: Time that modders spend in modifying and sometimes improving corporates' video games in form of a hobby, but still producing profit for the company.
direction: H
start: G5
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: FreeToPlay
definition: A type of game that is monetised later either by using the user data or by adding payable content inside the game. Because of being so accessible, it became quite popular and attracted high numbers of players.
direction: H
start: E7
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: Countergamification
definition: A form of opposition to the increasing use of game elements within non-game systems, which aims to disrupt the processing and exploitation of users data; it calls for gaming with the system, for a disruptive play with its rules and content while being within it.
direction: V
start: A11
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: ProductivePlay
definition: After-hours labour, masked with enjoyable activities that feel like leisure, also related to self-work (people trying to improve their own capital).
direction: H
start: L1
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Play
definition: A free activity standing quite consciously outside ordinary life as being "not serious", but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly. It is an activity connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained by doing it. It proceeds within its own proper boundaries of time and space according to fixed rules and in an orderly manner.
direction: H
start: G1
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Labour
definition: Practical work, especially when it involves hard physical or mental effort.
direction: V
start: N8
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Gamification
definition: The process of turning non-ludic activities into play. It might be seen as a form of ideology and it can be used as an online marketing technique to encourage engagement with a product or service.
direction: H
start: O1
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Selfwork
definition: "Any action you take towards the improvement of your own body or mind: incentives to quantify yourself couched in a “do what you love” rhetoric."
direction: H
start: J7
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Game
definition: A playable theory used to learn about reality without the consequences of reality.
direction: V
start: G8
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: FreeTime
definition: Leisure practices included in humans' lives.
direction: V
start: J10
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Leisure
definition: When you have the freedom to choose how to use your time.
direction: V
start: G2
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Temporality
definition: Experienced or lived time.
direction: H
start: S3
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Fun
definition: "Time flies when you're having..."
direction: V
start: K5
category: Productivity and Leisure
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