Naked on Pluto: A Multiplayer Text Adventure Using Facebook
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- Sniff, Scrape, Crawl: Part 2
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- Naked on Pluto: A Multiplayer Text Adventure Using Facebook
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Panel: Sniff, Scrape, Crawl: Part 2
“Naked on Pluto” is a multiplayer text adventure using Facebook, integrating a player’s personal data and that of his “friends” as elements in a satirical, interactive fiction. The game questions the way social media shape our friendships and the way social relations have become a commodity through targeted advertising, based on the phenomenal quantities of information we supply these databases with, literally exposing ourselves. The game was developed in 2010, as a response to the explosive growth of the data market, and the role social media play in this. To some, the trade-off between personal data and free services paid for through advertisement is more than fair, convenience comes at a price, but for many it has become almost impossible to make those trade-offs consciously and with a good idea of what the consequences might be. The goal of the game is to make these issues tangible. This paper aims at presenting the project and its context, more specifically how privacy and the mechanisms behind data harvesting can be critically examined using online gaming.
Naked on Pluto is collaboratively developed by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk.