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title: Crossword Imaginary Grid Game contents: -PLACEHOLDER COVER
- 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 some more, visit https://issue.xpub.nl/17/. Take some time (will this game make it leisure or productive?), place the pieces on a surface and start playing! - "Take the DEFINITIONS of the words and GRID-SQUARES to recreate the grid. To recreate the grid, follow the following scheme for every category:" - img: imaginarygrid_structure.jpg alt: "Crossword Imaginary Grid structure" - "I know it might sound complicated now, but I promise you that you will understand how to make it work while playing. There are three things you have to keep attention to while creating the grid:" - 1. A code (e.g. B7), composed of a letter and a number that defines the position in the imaginary grid. The first step is to position them. 2. The definition papers contain the clues to solve the crossword. 3. A content category that gathers all the definitions that are part of the same crossword (e.g. loot box). - "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." - 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: Pop culture 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, accomplished, or maintained. 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 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 (a user) 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 addiction 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: Hook Model 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: Ikea Effect 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: Click Farm 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: Magic Circle 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 fiction, 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: Gift Economy 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: World Building 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 it's 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: Free Work 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: Free-to-play 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: Productive Play 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: Free Time 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