Week (?) Reflections: Vision

This week my vision in my left eye has been a bit hazy…dehydration perhaps? Or migraines? What’s stricken me as remarkable is that my hand eye coordination seems to have improved despite this fact, and that my right eye vision (admittedly in my dominant eye anyway) has been sharper.

I’ve also had less screen time this week but that’s been great in helping me piece together some ideas of who’s perspectives I’d like to tap into in building out my project and working towards building a case for play as a means of building agency to create positive change. Here are some thoughts:

To speak to owners and creators of serious games (collaborative and otherwise, offline and online). I’d love to do a podcast style interview to hear about the design journey, interactions with the game (e.g., demand, demographic of players, opportunities and challenges, the types of skills players have learned while playing their game and if they believe these are transferable etc.). Some games I have in mind include: Sign, Cash Flow Classic, Whose Shoes and Diary of a CEO Conversation Cards. It would also be great if I could find someone who plays a sport at a professional level or coaches’ people who do to hear more about the part this plays in agency inside and outside of the sport.
Text scraping and analysis of reviews to explore whether from a player perspective, anything is called out that suggests that the games that they’ve played have made a marked difference directly or indirectly to their agency to act outside of the game. I think this one is likely to be a little trickier because the reviews I’ll have access to will likely reflect a certain audience. I was thinking I could perhaps expand this as well to include engagement with speculative fiction as a form of play. E.g., how novels/movies such as the Hunger Games or Maze Runner may inspire possibility thinking and whether or not this drives any sort of action afterwards.

That’s all for now 🙂 Have a great weekend!