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 [...]
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 [...]
We will begin work with interactive fiction on Thursday, February 28th. In preparation for this assignment, this is what you will need to do:
Download and install the Inform 7 application. Do this by clicking on the graphic for your operating system (Windows, Mac.)
Bring in your laptop with the software installed on Thursday the 28th (if [...]
We need to teach the new media students that three posts a week means three posts a week and that this is a minimum, not going beyond expectations. Doing well at this means setting a schedule and a routine.
We want to welcome the Spring 08 students to New Media One: Perspectives. This semester students will have the opportunity to engage digital tools and concepts in a variety of ways. The syllabus has been packaged as a series of links in the sidebar, but the printable version may also be downloaded.
Welcome back and [...]
Congratulations to Sally Terrell, our wonderful talent, for her inclusion in For Keeps, a collection of memoir edited by Victoria Zackheim. Over the course of the next few days, Sally will be reading from her work. She’ll be at Community Book Store in Brooklyn tonight at 7:30 PM, December 8th at Bluestockings in Manhattan [...]
Jesse Abbot kicks off the first of a three part series of talks in the history and philosophy of math and science with Peter Skiff of Bard College. Meet us just off from the Cyber Cafe at 1PM tomorrow at the college.
This should be a wonderful kick-off to an interesting series of events that [...]
Check the calendar for new assignment dates and downloads.
Have fun.
The 2007 Interactive Fiction competition games are up and ready for reading if the NM students are up for more examples. Monday we will be looking over and studying the productions. These might provide some fun over the week end.
Here’s the link.
The Mapping Space exercise has been added to the calendar.
The Spring semester closes and we had a successful run of New Media One: Perspectives. John and I will be reviewing student performance, even after grades are recorded, and changes to come for the course in the Fall and a possible run of New Media 2 in the Spring, although these days its tough to [...]
Congratulations to Beau Anderson for his acceptance at Trinity College. We wish him well. He’s been a major role model at Tunxis and an all around excellent human being.