Tunxis New Media

My IF Snippets Web Site

Here is the link to my Inform 7 site:
The Foyer is a Room

Free Web Hosting for the Experiments

Zymic offers free web hosting. Something to look into.

Today we will finish our work with Nine Points and then spend some time with The Legend of Grammy’s Apples. This will establish our foundation for playing works of IF and then begin discussing how we will be creating a work of IF.
Then we will discuss the basics: creating the world of the story (rooms, [...]

IF Project [Fall 09] – Getting Started

We will be starting the interactive fiction project on Wednesday (10/21) and there are several things you will need in order to get ready:

Read “Getting Started With Interactive Fiction“;
Bookmark this page: Interactive Fiction Shorts;
Play “Nine Points” at the above web page (and feel free to play any of the others linked there);
Download and install Inform [...]

September 9

Steve E gave an introduction to the online portfolio system (called Digication) today.
You can login to your account by following this link and clicking on the Login link:
http://tunxis.digication.com/
Use the same login and password you use when you check your grades.
The assignment for next Monday (9/14) is to create and edit your Welcome page.

September 2, 2009

Covered the two basic models of communication this morning: linear and transactional models of communication.
We also went over the 5 basic principles of new media:

Numerical representation
Modularity
Automation
Variability
Transcoding

Used audio software to help illustrate these five concepts (a first).
There was one excellent question asked about “changing” elements within a new media text: “doesn’t changing one element really change [...]

IFs for Spring Are Online

Works of IF from the 2009 New Media Perspectives and Digital Narratives classes are available to play online.
Check them out here.

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece of St That Doesn’t Fking Work

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of S**t That Doesn’t F*****g Work

Etherpad

Real-time document collaboration at Etherpad.
But this is really cool.
Thanks to gTa for this.

The 11(?) Principles of E-Poetry

What it is and what it ain’t. Stephanie Strickland poses some ideas towards (and away from) an e-literature aesthetic(s). Or something like that.
Born Digital by Stephanie Strickland
Worth comparing with Manovich’s five principles of new media.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Pac-Man

The Pac-Man Dossier

Interactive Fiction Writing Month

A Night of Comedy and Satire

Tunxis Community College Presents
A Night of Comedy, Satire, and Theater
“The Book of Leviticus Show,” “Kitty the Waitress,” “Funeral Parlor”* by Christopher Durang. Directed by George Sebastian-Coleman
“The Hail Mary Pass” by Patrice Hamilton. Directed by Patrice Hamilton
Here are the audition dates:
Wed. 5:30-8:30pm February 18
Rooms 6-127 & 6-128
Sat. 10am-12 pm February 21
Rooms 210 & [...]

Proof and Possibility Series

From Jesse Abbot:
The giant of modern physics Niels Bohr purportedly once quipped that if one isn’t confused by quantum mechanics—sometimes called QM for short—one doesn’t really understand it.
One of the world’s leading philosophers of science, Dr. Barry Loewer, is coming to Tunxis on Thursday, February 19th at 7 p.m. to give kind of a narrative [...]

Weather

It looks as if the weather won’t be working with us tomorrow for New Media Perspectives. If the college is closed, we will keep to our sequence for Monday as we want to proceed with as much sequence as possible. In the new media course sequence we want to work as sequentially as possible. [...]

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