Voz is a creative currency for kids building worlds together in Roblox. It acts like a reputation score and collaboration meter, not money or a shop currency.
> Voz stands for voice.
The idea is that every creative action and act of helping gives kids more Voz in our shared Hitchhiker galaxy. This proposal is a subtle twist on the original idea of a creative currency for Darvoz.
# Name And Metaphor Voz is the voice of a player in the ecosystem. Instead of counting kills or loot we count creative contributions and mutual aid.
Voz is intentionally not a financial instrument. It measures hours of contribution and moments of help and turns them into titles badges and access to shared tools.
# Role In The Hitchhiker Roblox Galaxy Voz is a core layer of the Hitchhiker experience on Roblox alongside the Hitchhiker Passport and the Hitchhiker Guide.
The pattern is - Play in Hitchhiker themed worlds - Build things with others - Help new players - Earn Voz as your creative voice across the galaxy
Voz is persistent across all Hitchhiker experiences in Roblox. The same identifier links a player profile in Roblox to an external Hitchhiker backend that aggregates Voz for dashboards and real world project voting.
When a player gives Voz to someone else their own stats may record voz_votes_given but no value is subtracted from them. This somewhat strange behavior distinguishes it from currency.
- Giving Without Losing - Using Voz Inside Game - External Voz Backend - Voz As Voice - Voz Terms - Not a Time Bank
# Open Questions Questions left for later wiki pages: - How Voz should integrate with a wider Hitchhiker Time Bank idea outside Roblox? - How to explain Voz to parents teachers and regulators? - How to let kids co-design the categories and projects Voz can be allocated to? - How to represent Voz visually in game without making it feel like grind based prestige?
These details can evolve through experiments in the first Hitchhiker Roblox worlds and be adjusted based on lived experience and kid feedback
# References
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Voz is designed to be a simple mutual credit based currency designed to facilitate and bootstrap our collaboration.
# See - Mutual Credit