Entries from Sean Bouchard tagged with 'assignment'
CTIN544 Story Assignment
I was a little at a loss as to what to do for this assignment. I came up with half an idea for something recombinant based on Jane Austen Unscripted, but I didn't have time to develop it. So I...
HanakoLand
For a CTWR518 assignment from last week, here is my slideshow presentation on HanakoLand, a theme park based on the properties of Hanako Games....
Story-o-matic
A CTWR518 assignment from a couple weeks back. My randomly-generated prompt called for a wealthy person for a protagonist, a ship at sea for a setting, and a murder for an inciting incident. One note: I didn't intend to name...
CTIN544 Library Assignment (Updated)
For a CTIN544 assignment, this program demonstrates use of the networking library built into Processing. UPDATED: Fixed a bug in the server and extensively commented the code. No longer including compiled builds, but leave a comment if you need one....
Boundary Conditions: Trust and Consequence in Negotiation Games
(For a CTCS505 assignment.) The concept of boundaries is fundamental to the design of games. Traditionally, games have explicit and unequivocal demarcations that separate the space of the game-world from the larger world around it. The spacial boundaries of a...
Photopia and the Illusion of Control
(For a CTCS505 assignment... uh, a while ago.) (Note: I highly recommend that you play Photopia, and that you do so before reading this, as the following will contain some spoilers for the game. Photopia is one of the defining...
Undertow!
(For a CTIN541 assignment.) 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...
Flesh-Objects, Reality, and Epidermits
(For a CTCS505 assignment.) In both Videodrome and eXistenZ, director David Cronenberg makes use flesh-objects - otherwise recognizable items that are composed of an undulating, human-like, fleshy organic material - to highlight the central themes of the movie. Videodrome is,...
Game Treatment: Butterfly Garden - The Capture Game
(For a CTIN541 assignment.) 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...
Formal Analysis: Scotland Yard
(For a CTIN541 assignment.) 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...
Simple System Analysis: Scrabble Tiles
(For a CTIN541 assignment.) 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...
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