2007-12-17T18:17:15Z tag:,2007:: USC Interactive Media Division 2007-12-17T18:17:15Z 2007-12-17T17:43:31Z tag:,2007-12-17:interactive.usc.edu/members/ekennerly/:142 2007-12-17T17:43:31Z

ekennerly http://interactive.usc.edu/members/ekennerly/ story bible for an educational videogame, Monkey Monastery. Thanks for reading!

I would appreciate feedback, especially on your emotional journey. If you prefer leading questions, then:

1. Playful bits: Please quote the first few words of text where you wanted to play, and briefly express your motivation.
   
2. Entertaining bits: Please quote the first few words of text where you felt humor, joy, wonder, empathy, or interest, and briefly express your feelings.
   
3. Confusing bits: Please quote the first few words of text where you felt confused, and mention what is wrong.
   
4. Boring bits: Please quote the first few words of text where you felt bored, distracted, or repelled, and briefly express your disinterest.
   

If you don't like leading questions, then detailed feedback in whatever mode you like is appreciated and reciprocated. I'll be happy to read and comment on your project. Even if you're not in CTIN 532.

Monkey Monastery is my thesis for 2009. I will begin prototyping and playtesting these exercises in January. I need help. If you're curious about playing or designing an entertaining game that teaches language, then use your magical gifts to contact me ... (k e n n e r l y @ u s c . e d u).]]> 2007-12-18T18:10:53Z 2007-12-16T22:29:05Z tag:,2007-12-16:interactive.usc.edu/members/jantonisse/:128 2007-12-16T22:29:05Z

jantonisse http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jantonisse/ , The Cache

"This ship has no windows. It was not built to look out at the stars, to explore unknown reaches of space. The universe in all its vastness is only a technical incovenience, an uncontrolled variable, for the Eliza’s grand introspective experiment.

The Eliza’s inhabitants careen through space without any line of communication back to Earth. When they return, five years of history will have passed, and they will face a planet restored or destroyed. There is no way to know which it will be: they can only complete their small mission… to remember and to recreate."]]> 2007-12-15T17:37:49Z 2007-12-15T17:07:53Z tag:,2007-12-15:interactive.usc.edu/members/umcmahan/:135 2007-12-15T17:07:53Z

mcmahan http://interactive.usc.edu/members/umcmahan/ , Lambence
But, our stories were written at different times, in different genres, and in different voices...so read on: ]]> 2007-12-13T12:00:20Z 2007-12-12T21:02:42Z tag:,2007-12-12:interactive.usc.edu/members/jantonisse/:128 2007-12-12T21:02:42Z

jantonisse http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jantonisse/ , The Cache [UPDATE: I browsed my uploaded images on another computer and they looked TERRIBLE. On Matt's advice, I tried moving them to Flickr and linking to them there. Let me know if you still have trouble viewing them. If the text is illegible at standard resolution, that's understandable, but the shapes at least should be unbroken.]

Well, my Atlas is done for now. No Document just yet... I have fifteen pages on world history, the purpose and form of the ship, and the experiment that I'll refine and put up here at a later time. For the moment I've decided on posting the sexy stuff, the architectural design of the ship. You can view the drawings below, or see the larger drawings and comments in the Cache Flickr set.

I rounded out the architectural sketches with notes (purportedly written for investors) about the working of the Eliza and her various facilities and amenities. If anyone feels up to the task of poking holes in my ship design, from either a left-brained perspective ("you forgot to give them AIR") or a right-brained perspective ("I threw up in my mouth a little when I saw your font choice") I'd love to hear it.
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dhughes http://interactive.usc.edu/members/dhughes/ , CTIN532
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ekennerly http://interactive.usc.edu/members/ekennerly/ here. Thanks for the encouragement! For my thesis, I will begin building the game in January. Because of the extreme labor required, any comments on what you're most interested in playing are greatly appreciated.

Also, in making the panorama presentation, I reused my file from the Method of Loci, and thought this could be a ZML panorama template for Photoshop (CS2+). This template made the two panorama presentations I did in CTIN 532. It automates slicing a large image into 14 images for the 14 continguous projectors in ZML. And creates an HTML file, too.
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jbrennan http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jbrennan/ 2007-12-06T12:02:16Z 2007-12-06T11:57:03Z tag:,2007-12-06:interactive.usc.edu/members/aclark:130 2007-12-06T11:57:03Z

aclark http://interactive.usc.edu/members/aclark
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mcmahan http://interactive.usc.edu/members/umcmahan/ , CTIN 532
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rjlayton http://interactive.usc.edu/members/rjlayton/ , 532 - Worldbuilding