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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, pathways, [...] 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“; Today we discussed Roland Barthes and his concepts of readerly and writerly and how the concept of a writerly text have important connections with our study and discussion of new media. Then we covered our definition of narrative which will play an important role for the rest of the semester. We then used the online (hypertext) novel 253 [...] 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 [...] 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 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 everything?” [...] Here is the code I demo’ed on Monday morning about actions and the after, before, carry out, and instead rules: Continue reading [NMP09] IF 02 – Actions & Rules My I7 tutorial page is located here. You can find basic information plus more sophisticated tricks as well beyond the documentation included with the software. Here is the code I was demo’ing in class: Continue reading [NMP09] Interactive Fiction 01 Today’s New Media Perspectives class continued our discussion on the forms, structures, and terminologies of hypertext with a different piece called 253 by Geoff Ryman. 253 is what I would call a more accessible piece of hypertext in that it presents people, places, and events in a more descriptive manner. It has a more traditional “writing” style [...] An interesting discussion began today in New Media Perspectives following our introduction to Barthes‘ ideas regarding the readerly and writerly. This overview shifted to a discussion of hypertext with a reading of Richard Pryll’s Lies (a work from 1994 that still stands as a great introduction to the idea of hypertext.) This was followed by a more [...] 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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