Month: July 2014

Bumbled Brew – Characters

Here are the characters for the bumbled brew story.   We have the sleuth Piper   The witches (from left to right – Agnes, Hilda and Ursa)   And the cat

Extra Project – Who bumbled the brew?

I’m working onĀ another project for my thesis portfolio. I’m doing a ‘whodunit’ story. What I need is some crazy stuff for the witches of the story to be interrupted with when they’re creating their brew. I have the basis of…

AWS

I’m investigating the offerings of Amazon Web Service (AWS). They may or may not offer free SSL with their service. If they do offer free SSL I may go with them instead of Linode.com

SSL Certificates

In order to work with Facebook apps one needs to have an SSL certificate in order to have a secure hypertext transfer protocol (https). Facebook no longer allows apps to work on http and requires apps to utilize https. I’ve…

Domain names bought

Bought the domain names for “Troll-Me-A-Story” with and without the hyphens. Also reserved the name in facebook for the application. I am still researching VPS options while working on the node.js, mongoDB and angularJS on my local server. The wire…

LOCK system

For the mini stories that the players/users will be using I will be applying the LOCK formula to the system. What is LOCK? LOCK is an acronym for LEAD, OBJECTIVE, CONFLICT AND KNOCKOUT. Obviously LEAD stands for the character that…

Name of thesis app changed

The name of the application for my thesis has change from “Legendary Quests” to “Troll-Me-A-Story” Why? After reviewing the multitude of games on Facebook it has been found that a name like Legendary Quests would get buried whereas a name…

Twitter and FB integration

The integration to twitter and FB will be gentle. The first step with twitter is utilizing their tweet button that will also encompass a large photo to go along with it. Twitter outlines the necessary steps to making a custom…