USC IMD: 2008-12-04T12:43:11Ztag:,2008::USC Interactive Media Division<![CDATA[Skill sharing--Sound creating and mixing]]>2008-12-04T12:43:11Z2008-12-04T12:07:59Ztag:,2008-12-04:interactive.usc.edu/members/lcao:1762008-12-04T12:07:59Zlcaohttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/lcao
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This is the work from 541's skill-sharing. I learnt sound creating and mixing with Logan. He is a very patient and skilled teacher, helped me from basic principles to actual practice. With his help I got to know how to create sound in Max/msp, and how to combine different sound effects together in Final cut pro. In this piece, the “Mary Had a Little Lamb” as well as the heartbeats and the scary noises are made in Max/msp, then I combined them with several other sounds together in final cut and add some effects. The heartbeat sound is not loud enough, so please turn on your volume a little bit. Thank you.
Sorry for the delay. I should upload this one earlier. I was thinking made some changes to it, but couldn't find the original final cut pro file any more. So this one is still the one we heard from class. Many thanks to Logan, he is a great teacher. I appreciate his help a lot. And many thanks to Tracy for this fantastic idea of skill-sharing, I believe many people enjoyed it and would like this activity could continue and expand to the whole division. ]]>
<![CDATA[Does Obama Play Videogames?]]>2008-11-25T04:38:35Z2008-11-25T04:34:16Ztag:,2008-11-25:interactive.usc.edu/members/tfullerton:322008-11-25T04:34:16Ztfullertonhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/tfullerton
blog post by Suzanne Seggerman of Games for Change asking whether or not Obama and his people understand the potential of videogames in the same way they have shown themselves to understand the nature of social networks. In the end, it is both an affirmation of Obama's track record with digital media, as well as a call to action regarding the power of games.
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<![CDATA[CTIN 541 | David Merrill's Siftables]]>2008-10-21T08:39:17Z2008-10-21T08:28:37Ztag:,2008-10-21:interactive.usc.edu/members/eduff:2152008-10-21T08:28:37Zeduffhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/eduff Siftables Research Page: http://web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/siftables.html
Hiroshi Ishii: http://web.media.mit.edu/~ishii/ ]]>
<![CDATA[Undertow!]]>2008-10-01T23:09:59Z2008-10-01T17:56:51Ztag:,2008-10-01:interactive.usc.edu/members/sbouchard:2132008-10-01T17:56:51Zsbouchardhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/sbouchard Undertow! is a mod of the popular family board game Up the River, with a grim slant. Instead of merrily rowing boats up the river, each player is responsible for a group of swimmers who are being pulled out to sea. We were aiming, in our design, to hit a particular emotional note: hopeless desperation, waxing panic. I believe we hit that mark.]]>
<![CDATA[Amazing Paper Prototype Example]]>2008-09-22T19:27:39Z2008-09-22T19:25:52Ztag:,2008-09-22:interactive.usc.edu/members/wgraner:2162008-09-22T19:25:52Zgranerwhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/wgraner
Check it out.
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<![CDATA[Game Treatment: Butterfly Garden - The Capture Game]]>2008-09-22T18:41:38Z2008-09-22T14:55:44Ztag:,2008-09-22:interactive.usc.edu/members/sbouchard:2132008-09-22T14:55:44Zsbouchardhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/sbouchard Overview
Butterfly Garden is a suite of thematically integrated casual games that are played in a highly social context, such as a preexisting social network like Facebook. The premise of Butterfly Garden is that players can design the wings of butterflies and share their designs anonymously. This design could be a simple pattern, like a real butterfly's wings, or it could be a drawing, a picture, or a poem. The player creates a butterfly with a design, and releases it into the wild. The butterfly will then find its way into the gardens of other players, who will be able to see and comment on the design.]]>
<![CDATA[Formal Analysis: Scotland Yard]]>2008-09-22T15:16:23Z2008-09-15T18:20:16Ztag:,2008-09-15:interactive.usc.edu/members/sbouchard:2132008-09-15T18:20:16Zsbouchardhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/sbouchard Overview
Scotland Yard is a strategic cat-and-mouse game in which one player takes on the role of a criminal and is pursued across the game board by the other players. The game board depicts a complicated network of numbered nodes that are connected by differently-colored lines: red, yellow, blue, combinations of those three colors, and black. The nodes represent locations in the city of London, and the lines represent routes between them. The colors indicated the modes of transportation that can access the route: taxi, bus, tube, and boat.]]>
<![CDATA[Simple System Analysis: Scrabble Tiles]]>2008-09-09T11:38:27Z2008-09-09T11:20:59Ztag:,2008-09-09:interactive.usc.edu/members/sbouchard:2132008-09-09T11:20:59Zsbouchardhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/sbouchard Let us examine the system comprised of the tiles from a game of Scrabble, and consider how an analysis of their form, material properties, marked values, and especially the context implied by the alphabetic system relates to the way people play with the system. ]]>
<![CDATA[Weight Watchers Webtool as RPG]]>2008-09-05T11:49:41Z2008-09-04T11:51:51Ztag:,2008-09-04:interactive.usc.edu/members/dtucker:2222008-09-04T11:51:51Zdtuckerhttp://interactive.usc.edu/members/dtucker
A friend of mine recently slimmed down on Weight Watchers. She joined two months ago, and in just a couple of weeks, she'd shed 10 pounds. She'd been trying for a year to lose weight, but nothing worked -- until now.
Why did Weight Watchers work so well? For a really fascinating reason: because it isn't a normal diet. It's something more. Something fun.