Using Social Media for Interactive Storytelling Intro Thesis statement and design context – Interactive stories are usually a solo experience; with today’s technology interactive stories can evolve to include more than one user to interact with the story. By providing…
Month: May 2014
Further Development
These past nine weeks have flown by with doing research for the new direction of my thesis and creating a prototype to demonstrated how the visual portion would work. Since I am still doing research a revised draft is not…
Mid-Fidelity Prototype
Here is the mid-fidelity prototype https://foxglove1028.proto.io/share/?id=1591374b-f7c4-41e3-99fe-d5aace5f6492&v=1 It is mainly to work on the look and feel of the site. Per the chat with Professor Fu that for now the home was mocked up so that I can meet a deadline…
Formal Bibliography
Social Media Aaker, Jennifer Lynn., Andy Smith, and Carlye Adler. The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2010. Print. Coleman, David. 42 Rules for Successful Collaboration a Practical Approach…
Low-Fidelity Prototype
I have published the low-fidelity prototype on proto.io. The only requirement to view this project is to make sure the browser it is viewed in has HTML5 and CSS3 abilities alongs with JavaScript enabled. https://foxglove1028.proto.io/share/?id=57893ba6-c0cd-4bde-a8ec-9a0944ca6d1a&v=3
Outline – Simple
Using Social Media for Interactive Storytelling Intro Thesis statement and design context – Interactive stories are usually a solo experience; with today’s technology interactive stories can evolve to include more than one user to interact with the story. By providing…
Process
The Process The visual portion of my thesis will be an online application for interactive stories where users will be able to add a story node or event that either enabled or hindered a user’s progress of a story. The…
bibliography – explanation text for thesis site
42Entertainment – An American company based in Burbank which specializes in creating and producing alternate reality games (ARGs). Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook is an online social networking service. Mark Zuckerberg is one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook.…
Its not about THINGS!
I dove back into my research notes and reread a few chapters from Chris Crawford’s book Interactive Stories. Here’s a quick excerpt from chapter one in regards to games: Games concern themselves with things: things you acquire, things you use,…
Give me X item(s) is so boring… let’s spice it up!
After a good long chat with Professor Fu it was apparent that just posting requests to the social sites asking for items is just absolutely stale and I had to step back and ask what can be different? What can…