SIMON YUILL: Social Versioning System
Social Versioning System (SVS) is a framework for supporting
collaborative projects that combine coding with other media, and
allows programmers and non-programmers to work together. As well as
facilitating collaborative production, SVS provides ways of
reflecting on that process, revealing aspects of how the interaction
between those who create the content and code, or play with it,
relates to the social dynamic that emerges from such practice.
SVS is being built as the main framework for spring_alpha.
spring_alpha is a multiplayer simulation-game that uses the idea of
game design as a vehicle for social enquiry. The game itself exposes
the mechanisms of game creation in the way it is played: game content
can be publicly edited through web-based level editors, and during
gameplay the code that runs the game can be accessed and recoded.
The initial release of SVS (version 0.2) features a small-scale
'livecoding' multiplayer game system, supporting games that can be
played by being hacked and re-programmed, thereby collapsing gameplay
and coding into one. This is combined with an analysis tool that
visualizes the code change and coder-player dynamics.
The website provides documentation for the project and downloads of
the source code and examples.
http://www.spring-alpha.org/svs/
http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~syuill/svs/
Media Design Research
Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie Hogeschool Rotterdam
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/
Social Versioning System
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