Thesis Project Coding Chunks

Troll Me A Story (TMAS) Coding Chunks

Character Avatar Creation

• Body Type
• Skin Tone
• Head
  • Eyes
    • Shape
    • Color
  • Nose
  • Mouth
  • Hair
    • Shape
    • Color
• Clothes
  • Hat
  • Cloak/Coat
  • Top
  • Bottom

Basic Account Creation

• Personal Info
  • Name
    • First
    • Last
  • Age – verify that user is at least 13
• Email Address and confirmation
• Username – check availability
• Password – check/confirmation
• Avatar Icon – 250x250px
• Create Game Avatar
• Connect to Social accounts?
  • Has FB Account
    • FB Account – connection
  • Has Twitter Account
    • Twitter Account – connection
• Add Friends?
• Select a starting point (only one story right now but they have three areas to choose from for starting off)

Login/Logout

• Verify status
• does user exist
• using site, fb or twitter login account

Event Polling

• Check to see what events have happened on…
  • Site
  • Twitter – using #TMAS
  • FB – using #TMAS

Main Map Node Updates

• Top 20 player locations for map
• Additional show up as + msg blip
• Logged in Users can see where friends are – like Cookie Jam

Story Paths

**Initial Story to use – Red Riding Hood

• 3 Possible Endings
• Interactions/events weigh in on the final result
• Outside user interactions
  • Limited tokens (Only 3 tokens for OU per day… individual computer info is saved in a session cookie that expires after a day)
• All users
  • Must help to get more trolling tokens
  • tokens dictate what actions are available for story path additions

**Possible Additions – would be nice to have**

• Chat bar – for chatting in real time