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Practices of play The collective re-scription of the online game World of Warcraft Kristine Ask www.kristineask.com
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The Game in question:  ,[object Object],Virtual world Up to 30 000 players Avatars used to interact with the world A game platform of many subgames Primary game: Killing monsters
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Scripts in raiding II ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Material re-scription II ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],VS
Social re-scription I ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Social re-scription II ,[object Object],[object Object]
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Play as productive ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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  1. VELKOMMEN: Hey, my name is Kristine Ask and I will be doing a presentation titled ”World of Scriptcraft? Gamers collective remaking of computergames”. Fully aware that its getting late and its been a long day, I have made sure to use many pictures and big fonts in my presentation. I will be looking at the player practices in the game World of Warcraft to see how users negotiate and create code.
  2. ” Summing up the formal characteristic of play, we might call it 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 it. It proceeds within its own proper boundaries of time and space according to fixed rules and in an orderly manner. It promotes the formation of social groupings that tend to surround themselves with secrecy and to stress the difference from the common world by disguise or other means. ”
  3. The rise of digital games – humo ludens, renewed interest: Also new forms of play occuring The trad def, no longer viable Learning: games are design for critical learning, increase in literacy: collective problem solving, fostering scientific habits of mind Expertise: embodied, external, not something you just pick up Cheating: Rules are indeed there, but they are not necessarely the arbiter of what goes on. Cheating – being able to circumvent code is relevant Emergence: new player practices are developing Work: Its dicotomy is quite descriptive in some cases NOTE: STILL ENJOYABLE! Still fun, flow, immersion. But not perhaps with the ideas of play that we have learned from seeing kids play, cause as user studies have shown: Grownups are the ones that play. The average game player is 35 years old and has been playing games for 12 years. The average age of the most frequent game purchaser is 39 years old. Forty percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (34 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (18 percent).
  4. What type of material I gathered: journal, chatlog, videorecordings, just being at the various sites that were in use: blogs, forums
  5. The game I have choosen as part of my study is World of Warcraft. Also called WoW for shot. For those who do not know it: It was released in 2004 by the game company Blizzard it has become the most popular MMORPG, atleast in the western world. To explain the game I am going to explain the genre: The genre is MMORPG or Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. Breaking it down: 1) Massive Multiplayer Online : It’s a persistant virtual world, as in: a synchronous graphical representation of a place. Wo rld of W arcraft is a tounge-and-cheek version of more classical Tolkiens Lord of the Rings world: swords and magic, dragons and goblins. This game world is then duplicated across several server s, where as much as 30 000 players can be logged in at any time . In total several hundred servers, giving room to the approx 10-12 million players (been a while since player nubmers have been released). So, thats the massive multiplayer. Then there is the Online Roleplaying part. 2) Online Roleplaying: Y ou are represented through an avatar : which can be a dwarf, orc, troll, gnome, el f – going with the fantasy theme. But the avatar is very important as the overarching for the game is to develop this avatar. Both solving quests, but also modify the attributes of the avatar by equipping magical items The last part of MMORPG is the G for Game and its in the gameplay that the avatar is developed. 3) Game: There are many ways to develop the avatar, which means that its better to think of WoW as a gaming platform rather then a single game. The primary game is that of using the avatar to kill virtual monsters. This granst the avatar points and magical items that will enhance it and make it better at (pause) killing monsters. There are other: Killing of other avatars in battlegrounds or arenas Completing of achievements, an achievementsystem that works as meta quests: Like eating 50 types of food, or visit every zone in the game. Ah: Making virtual money Emergent styles of play: Griefing, which is to destroy other peoples play experience. But the primary one is still: killing of monsters and this also can happen in several ways. In my analysis I am going to look at one subset of the killing of monster game:raiding
  6. Raiding starts when the character has reached its maximum level, and can only be further enhanced by gaining magical items – which incidentally is kept by these really large and hard-to-beat monsters. So, the idea behind raiding is that you get several players together in order to defeat a really big and tough monster, for a really big and phat reward. So, r aids are defined as groups of players banding together that are large then 5. What size such raidgroups are have varied depending on the content the game has put foward, but for the last few years its been groups of 10 or 25. Raiding as a playing phenomenon - first came about in the MMO Everquest where some players decided that if they just got enough people together in game, perhaps they could kill some of the allmighty dragons that were about. This was not intended from the designers, so it started out as an emergent type of play (Malaby 2009?). In WoW however, it has been been part of the design from day one – and as more and more content is added it has been modelled so that more and more players should have access to this – making it one of the games biggest selling points. While raiding and raiding communities initially was seen as an elite activity, it is now a commonplace activity. In the last 3 years it have gone from a primarily powergamer type of play, to something engaging a large amount of the playerbase. Thought it seems that the instrumental type of play that was promoted by powergamers, have been normative and is defining for all those involved (Taylor 2008)
  7. Re-scripting: Players took it alot more seriously then in