Deleting My Ex's Animal Crossing Save Data
ACNH not only let me grow closer to my ex, but move on from them
A personal and relatable look at how play artifacts can overlap and interact with artifacts of the people in our lives.
Posts by Tag / TOPIC: Play Artifacts (3)
Residual Play Artifacts
Residual play artifacts are objects, whether virtual or existing in real space, that are created by the player during the process of play.
Ian Sundstrom discusses the value of “play artifacts” - things created by players in the process of playing a game that can then be reviewed, saved, or shared. He lists several widely-varied examples from particular games, and observes that it seems to be a growing trend - and since then we’ve seen a proliferation of high-profile games with photo modes and consoles with screenshot or sharing buttons as well.
How MidBoss encodes a player's game data in shareable 'death cards'
Gamasutra speaks with MidBoss developer Emma "Eniko" Maassen about sharing save files via Twitter, steganographically encoded in an embedded image of the protagonist's grisly fate.
An examination of “death cards” from MidBoss - a really clever play artifact that encodes the player’s save file into a shareable trading card that can be used to seed new games.