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MERIDIAN: Memory-Encoded Rituals for Intimacy across Distance in an Interactive, Asynchronous Neighbourhood — arXiv:2610.41776

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Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41776
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@misc{dc0ebbbaf09eeb,
  title = {MERIDIAN: Memory-Encoded Rituals for Intimacy across Distance in an Interactive, Asynchronous Neighbourhood — arXiv:2610.41776},
  howpublished = {arXiv (en)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41776},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_0ebbbaf09eeb; sha256 a11c536adc9448fd820b1d9b313acc3e30045bd3fa76d613ecdbc3b5b5a1d644},
  year = {2026}
}

Archived text

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How can shared memories become playable structures for partners who live in different time zones? We present MERIDIAN, a pre-deployment design case of Yi Town, a bilingual browser game developed by one member of a long-distance couple as a gift for the other. Nine levels translate personally meaningful events, places and cultural references into tasks within a navigable pixel town. A birthday prologue and a fictional wedding frame the intended experience. Drawing on research through design, we reconstruct four design changes from 109 development commits, 28 changelog versions and three design specifications. These records support six situated design commitments, including memory-derived mechanics, staged access, local progress storage and bilingual coverage. The implementation combines a union-based progress model with manually exchanged, checksummed codes and time-zone-dependent scenery. An implementation audit reproduced 153 passing unit tests and examined all 1,024 canonical progress codes, while identifying limits involving resets, unversioned level registries and residual transcription errors. The application has no author-operated backend for progress, but external media services and browser speech recognition limit its privacy and offline guarantees. No recipient evaluation or relationship outcomes are reported. The contribution is an inspectable account of design decisions and their trade-offs, including the tension between authoring a personal gift and preserving the recipient's freedom to interpret, decline or reshape it. The game is playable at this https URL and its source is public at this https URL .

Tema degli esploratori: governance digitale e beni comuni (elenco arXiv cs.CY, nuovi lavori del giorno).
Categorie arXiv: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) ; Computers and Society (cs.CY).
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