Pitisuda Sukumalchantra (Bam)

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This project is a collection of all summer projects. It invites people to personalise their own experience, celebrating new patterns of participation.

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This game talks about achieving instant gratification in online culture through the simple action of pressing a button. Each person has a button that they often press such as the like and the share button. As buttons are the reflection of the users’ behaviour, this game provides buttons as a tool. The more the player presses the button, a more extreme and radical version of that button they will experience.

The small action could achieve instant gratification, however, this instant gratification could transform to becoming a negative addiction. It shows how much our life relies on the online world.

The game would like to speculate how the addiction could lead to radical scenarios. While it is suggesting the new behavior, yet promoting the awareness as well.

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I would like to build a game that is more open than the first one for the player to decide. Therefore, the second game talks about the players’ sensitivity towards trending images on social media. Different people have a different degree of sensitivity towards the same image. It is really interesting to observe how much the sensitivity or comment from the previous person affects the next person or form a new norm to the community. In other words, the game observes conformity.

For the mechanism, the players are asked to censor the image with the cubes in different positions and opacity. Those cubes’ positions would be collected as data, which could be altered by the next person’s action to observe. In other words, it is the collective sensitivity space.

The time lapse video illustrates how dynamic the players build new norms and conversation in this space. The results might be used to find the balance between control and being controlled in the design space.

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Moving to the third game, in which I would like to loosen the pre-structure even more. The third game experiments with real-time interaction without a data record to observe the players’ immediate responses. This game aims to observe the dialog that is going on the platform, in which it is driven by the players and see if it would be influenced by the toxic behaviour from this open platform.

The platform provides a messaging space for the players to make conversation. This game is not intended to be a permanent platform but be a new platform for people to experiment momentarily collaboration.

Here are the missing details of the system, the player can decide to make the message to be private or public. The idea of transition between privacy and public informs my work closure. It is fascinating how people can create their own individual spaces, select the sizes and set boundaries in public spaces. Therefore, this game decided to launch on an open platform rather than an individual platform. While I, as a designer, am in the position of the monitor to make sure the platform is secure.

The results illustrate the alternative dialogues that are formed by a group of people and also the community. The toxic behaviour has not been shown yet on this stage. However, if it shows up, the results might be used to prevent toxic behaviour and re-designing the rules in the space.

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