The 1st drafts of the IF projects are available to play online.
Check some of them out and blog about your impressions.
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Play the IF 1st Drafts Online
November 13, 2008 – 1:51 pm
Prepping for Digital Storytelling
November 3, 2008 – 9:54 am
We are starting our next project in digital storytelling today.
Here are links to tutorials for the software you might be using:
Windows Movie Maker (comes free on all Windows machines).
Another free download you might want to try is Photo Story 3 for Windows.
On the Macbooks, there is iMovie 08.
Lastly here is a site with links to [...]
Updates to the Inform 7 Snippets
October 25, 2008 – 4:15 pm
I’ve updated the snippets site with some new ones in these two areas:
Conversations
New stuff about asking, telling, and showing a character something.
Vehicles
Several new vehicle examples such as riding a horse, flying on a broom, and limiting where you can drive a vehicle.
Check ‘em out. There might be something useful for you.
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IF Project - First Draft (Fall 08)
October 24, 2008 – 9:00 am
This coming Monday (October 27) is the due date for your first drafts of your IF pieces.
Email me (and Steve) the text of your source code plus your released work by the end of the day. (I’ll explain how to do this during Monday’s class.)
Also make sure you have posted your story and your plot [...]
The IF Project - Fall 2008
October 13, 2008 – 8:40 am
Here is the Interactive Fiction Project Assignment and requirements for this semester:
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The Interactive Fiction Project (Fall 2008)
September 29, 2008 – 10:56 am
On Wednesday (October 1), we will begin discussing our next project: creating a work of interactive fiction with the Inform 7 authoring software. We will go through the Inform 7 interface, basic I7 coding, and view some basic works of interactive fiction.
Inform 7 is freeware and is available for Windows, Mac, and Unix platforms. Find [...]
Mapping Space
September 19, 2008 – 1:42 pm
I’m moving the Mapping Space assignment up a few days. Look for the assignment to be downlaodable sometime today.
Forms of News Up and Ready
September 10, 2008 – 9:54 pm
The forms of news assignment is up and ready for download in the course calendar. Download the description and assessment sheet and turn it in with the completed assignment.
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Growing Up Online
April 16, 2008 – 8:57 am
For our (future) discussions regarding social networking, Frontline has a great piece on Growing Up Online: Just How Radically is the Internet Transforming Childhood?
Great journal/blogging ideas here for discussion. You can watch the complete program online too. Take the time to check this out.
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REMINDER! First Draft of IF Project Due
April 11, 2008 – 4:12 pm
Just a gentle prod/reminder that students first draft of their IF project is due on Thursday, April 17.
IF Code from Class 03/27
March 28, 2008 – 5:27 pm
I have posted the code from the collaborative story “The Good, The Bad, and The Lolli” done in class. I took the liberty of dressing it up quite a bit. There are minimal interactions but the map, locations, and characters are all there (I think there was a piano player but I cannot remember the [...]
Skype on the iPhone?
March 14, 2008 – 9:46 am
This article from the New York Times caught my eye this morning.
iPhone 2.0 will turn this phone into an engineering tool, a game console, a free-calls Skype phone, a business tool, a dating service, an e-book reader, a chat room, a database, an Etch-a-Sketch…
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Interactive Fiction Assignment Part 2
March 13, 2008 – 11:06 am
This week we will continue our journey into the production of interactive fiction by learning how to populate our worlds with items to be looked at, examined, and interacted with. Then we will begin to delve into the more complex issues of how to make these worlds behave appropriately.
This will cover items 2 and 3 [...]
Interactive Fiction Assignment
March 6, 2008 – 1:10 pm
This project will be assessed on the following criteria (listed in order of priority) as we will discuss in class:
A map of interconnected “rooms” with clear descriptions and exits.
Objects that can be interacted with.
Two (or more) possible outcomes.
Story.
See “The Legend of Grammy’s Apple” at http://newmedia.hpiweb.com for an example of a short work that meets all [...]