L.O.O.P. (Life Of Ordinary People)

mage Courtesy of Cyril Lee.

Serious Gaming is a game theory that is known to be effective in delivering educational content, mainly because of its universal appeal to various demographics and its ability to capture prolonged attention. L.O.O.P. is a 2 – 4 persons competitive card game inspired by the theory.

Players are challenged to reach maximum Happiness while balancing a material life and preventing a total resource depletion. Applying game theory to the design of L.O.O.P.’s core mechanics, its universal appeal is effective in capturing and retaining learners’ attention for a significant period of time.

Milestone

2018.Q1
Project awarded Design Trust Seed Grant

2018.03-04
Organised Card Game Workshops at secondary schools and HKUST

2020.04
Online version is launched

2018

Grantee: Cyril Lee: Cyril Lee is an industrial designer and co-founder of Blackbody Lab, a Hong Kong based design studio with a vision to bring productive changes to society through design. Inspired by the physics concept, Lee believes good design should behave just like a "black body", which absorbs and caters variaties in people; neutralizes negative environmental and social impacts; and more importantly, radiates positive influences back to our every day livings. With an educational background in both engineering and design, Lee had worked in the past as a design researcher at HKDI DESIS Lab and an industrial designer at Lagranja Design, a Barcelona based design studio. Some of Lee’s works were exhibited internationally and won multiple design awards, including Universal Design Competition Expert Award (Germany), National Design Dashi Award (China), and he is also an recipient of the Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award 2015.

Organisation: Blackbody Lab