Tunxis New Media

Hypertext Project
Progress Report
New Media: Perspectives
Instructors: Ersinghaus and Timmons

In a fairly substantial written report, describe your progress with your hypertext project. In this report, you should describe your overall progress with your hypertext that was begun in February from the seed idea and explore and evaluate the decisions you made in keeping with the idea of the [...]

New Media One: Perspectives
Mapping Experience and Architectural Narrative

On a writing surface, draw a map of the interior of an architectural interior, describing the layout of the space from the crow’s view (top down). Here are a few guidelines. Before you attempt a map, complete a walkthrough of the space. Walk around and make notes. Try to [...]

New Media 1: Perspectives
Week 1 Exercise

Forms of News in 3 Parts

Part 1: Go to the library (or the convenience store) and pick up a copy of a USA Today newspaper and “experience” it. In detail, describe the experience of using the paper. Consider how the paper is packaged, folded, put together physically, organized for “use” [...]

A compare and contrast experience, involving game criteria and new media principles. Due [...]

The Interactive Fiction Project is open for restudy, continued work and rethinking.

Here’s [...]

Architectural Narrative

On a handy writing surface, draw a map of the interior of an architectural interior, describing the layout of the space from the crow’s view (top down). Do some prep work first, though. Complete a walkthrough of the space. Observe details and make notes. Try to note as many features of the space as [...]

New Media 1: Perspectives
Week 1 Exercise

Forms of News in 3 Parts

Part 1: Go to the library (or the convenience store) and pick up a copy of a USA Today newspaper and “experience” it. In detail, describe the experience of using the paper. Consider how the paper is packaged, folded, put together physically, organized for “use” [...]

New Media 1: Perspectives
Futures Project

The Concept

This is a team-based project and will involve collaboration in terms of input, development, and technical problem solving. You are now a small start-up or development team. You share a common understanding of new media principles but have your own strengths in terms of a discipline. You share a common [...]

New Media 1: Perspectives
Game Analysis
Game as System

Part 1

Describe the qualities of the online game Amanita: Samorost which can be found at here.

In particular, pay attention to the way this game engages or absorbs the audience (sound, text . . . ). What is the goal of the game? Describe its property of emergence. Describe its boundaries. [...]

New Media Journals are due on April 5th.

If you need ideas to explore and write about click on the Journal Ideas category link for a list of posts we’ve made on things we think are interesting and deep enough to [...]

New Media Perspectives
Exercise 5
Software as New Media System

On Thursday the 29th, we played with the idea of software as sandbox. Since you use software all the time, consider some experiment and play of your own.

In essay form, analyze a piece of software as a new media system. To accomplish this, consider what the software is meant [...]

New Media One: Perspectives
Visual Iconography
Exercise 4

Part 1: Collection and Identification
For this exercise you will be working with both traditional forms of media and new forms. You will also be using the language of visual iconography as it is used and explained by Scott McCloud in his book Understanding Comics. One goal here would be to identify [...]

New Media 1: Perspectives

Week 1 Exercise

Forms of News in 3 Parts

Part 1: Go to the library (or the convenience store) and pick up a copy of a USA Today newspaper and “experience” it. In detail, describe the experience of using the paper. Consider how the [...]