Author: Ally

Thesis Site make-over

Integrating story elements (the background is a FPO and will be updated with my own artwork) and my new logo the thesis site for my thesis will be updated to reflect the following look and feel:        …

Social Media migrations

I have been pondering the total reliance on Twitter and Facebook and realize that not all social media networks are to last forever. Take a look at MySpace and how its audience base has changed in the past few years.…

Twitter Geo-Location Usage

Since the point is to use the social media entities Twitter and Facebook it made me think of how else could they be used beside spamming the audience with request links? Well Twitter does have geo-location api which could be…

Wireframes – in progress

Creating the wireframes for the main site of the prototype. Home Landing Page Profile Page for players Profile Page view teammate overlay Profile Page – thank you note overlay

Another story creator…

While perusing the proper etiquette for tweets and likes I found the following site, Storybird, that I thought was interesting and is kind of like what I was planning on doing for my prototype. It is also very similar to…

Revised Timeline

  Timeline revised and updated to take into account the redirection of the thesis.

Influences and onward to prototyping

Influences: I’ll be diving deeper into influential technology, sites and people listed below soon. 42Entertainment Mark Zuckerberg Jim Butcher – one of my favorite authors for this guy knows how to write a story that really engages the reader Facebook…

Anti-group users

What if there is a user that wants to interact with the story by themselves with no help from others? This happens a lot and I myself will claim that I am guilty of doing this for many of the…

Breathe new life!

Here we are again with figuring out the problem… its there in the back of my mind so I will do my best to coax it out into the open. As I see it is that interactive stories on a…

Formulation of thesis statement is so close….

The idea for the project is taking the interactive story and utilize Facebook and Twitter to continue the story. However the twist is that the user needs to work with others to unlock certain story nuggets to continue down certain…