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SUMMARY:Power Play Cycles - Hands On: Rewriting the Rules of Economic Simu
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DESCRIPTION:Economic power hides in rules. Early home-computer “market s
 imulators” such as Hammurabi\, Oregon Trail\, and Lemonade Stand encoded
  entire ideologies of productivity\, scarcity\, and profit into a few doze
 n lines of BASIC. They taught us how to play the economy — literally.\n\
 nBut what happens when players stop following those rules and begin to rew
 rite them? This talk explores the power cycles inside these classic games:
  loops of control between player\, program\, and system. By modifying code
 \, exploiting glitches\, and bending rule sets\, we can expose how computa
 tional models reproduce economic dogmas—and how small hacks can turn lib
 ertarian fantasies into playful counter-economies.\n\nThrough live demonst
 rations and short historical dives\, we’ll trace how the simple act of 
 “cheating” becomes a tool of critique. Each intervention reveals a new
  feedback loop between code and ideology: where every CPU cycle becomes a 
 site of political power.\n\nCan a hacked simulation still be fun? Can rewr
 iting a game’s rules help us imagine different systems of value and exch
 ange? Between nostalgia\, code archaeology\, and playful subversion\, this
  session invites you to rethink what—and who—games simulate when we le
 t the power cycle run differently.
LOCATION:SoS Saal 6 (Mitmach-Teil eines Vortrags)
URL:https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/event/detail/power-play-cycles
 -hands-on
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