WMM 1 Tenth Week 18th of September 2007

We were allocated to research the look and feel of our space station:
We were assigned a task to Google images of space stations a shuttles to get the idea going.
Brain storming:
-Mix with the old and the new
-20.000 leagues under the sea
-Jungle
-Fantasy

Jay and Edward suggested we create a world with spheres attached with it. So there will be main done which is for a communal purpose and private spaces for each and every character.

WMM1 Sixth Week 20th of August 2007

Created a a life character- And T-shirt design
We found a template for a t-shirt and applied our own designs to it.





Also created a belt and attached it to my character.

Downloaded a Photoshop t-shirt here and put our own designs and uploaded them into our character.

I also created a belt which we attached to our avatar.

We also talked about creating a space station

Space Station

• Shuttle ship
• Costume shop (eg wookie outfit)
• Holodeck
• Gun ship
• Biodome
• Elevators
• Evil Lair
• Bar

WMM1 Ninth Week 11th of September 2007

Today we had Dale for class Todays class we had to create a bullet and gun in Second Life.
Below you have a picture of my character with a Gun and bullet DimitriP McCaw.





My task is to research costumes for the space station theme:
Space Station

• Shuttle ship
• Costume shop (eg wookie outfit)
• Holodeck
• Gun ship
• Biodome
• Elevators
• Evil Lair
• Bar

Mine and Simons task was to research costumes for a space station world. I firstly looked at Star Trek, Starwars, Babylon 5 and Stargate

WMM1 Eighth Week 3rd of September 2007

Week 8 :: Non-linear and interactive stories. | Alternate Reality and Role Playing Games. (SS)
We looked at non-linear and interactive stories. We looked at Non Linear stories and interactive stories as well. Another aspect was Multi-Linear stories.Braided Multi-Linear,Nested Funnel story,Tree Branching story.We also looked at youtube site called Lonely Girl 15 this symbolizes a different kind of story telling. For example it was a number of series that was showed then just one whole movie. We also looked at a movie called Run Lola Run it has a multi-Linear stories.




An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants' ideas or actions.

The ARG industry is consistently producing multi-million-dollar games for tens of thousands of players at a time, and generating interest across the entertainment, broadcast, and advertising industries. In the last few years, successful games have received widespread recognition, winning awards from the gaming, media and broadcasting industries. As well as these critical success, there are already several businesses with long-term sustainable revenue stream


I was researching alternate realitve games and this is what I came up with:


Designed by Glenn Drover, this boardgame version of the PC hit: Age of Empires III® from Microsoft and Ensemble Studios, allows you to revisit the age of exploration and discovery. Take on the role of a colonial power seeking fame, glory and riches in the New World. As you proceed through three ages you can launch expeditions of discovery, colonize regions, expand your merchant fleet, build capital buildings that give your nation distinct advantages, develop your economy, and if necessary, declare war.

Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery feature beautiful artwork from the PC game and from renowned artist Paul Niemeyer, but is a typical eurogame. Age of Empires III have hundreds of plastic figures, including ships, doubloons, colonists, merchants, captains, missionaries and soldiers.

WMM1 Seventh Week 28th August

Today we had Stepehen and we looked at all different ways of wrtiting critics and looked at differnet ways of writing. We also looked at different websites that show us that. We also viewed the Movie Monkey magic from a story tellers perspective and South Park We also looked at Linear stories fro A-----to B.IN the timeline of the movie we looked at crises the climate,denouement. The greek structure or map which includes thesis,antithesis and synthesis



Heroes, people with special talents or gifts, first separate from the world, departing from their everyday life patterns. Next, the hero has an initiation into a source of power, experiencing trials and victories. Finally, the hero returns to society, bringing to it the powers gained through the mythic adventure. In reintegrating into society, the hero may be either honored or rejected by others.

The three main stages in the cycle can be broken down into smaller steps, beginning with "The Call to Adventure". The entire cycle is displayed for your enjoyment and edification.

the hero's journey : summary of the steps

This page summrarizes the brief explanations from every step of the Hero's Journey.

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/smc/journey/ref/summary.html

WMM1 Fifth Week 14th of August

Creating characters

Today we were assigned to take a photo of ourselves and creating
our second life creators as to what we want. My particular character has a black Jacket and cream pants. His medium build and olive skinned, he also has a beard. My name is DimitriP McCaw.





My Photo

As you can see this is a picture of myself you can almost tell I look nothing like my second life character which I don't mind.
Every time I connect with Second Life I appreciate it's features that it offers.






My Creation

Here is my box that I created on Second Life today we went through textures and building objects and I have to say it was alot of fun.






Building

We were assigned to create a building under exact measurements. I was suprised how simple the tools were to use.

WMM1 Fourth Week 7th of August

BUCKET

You will find attached my bucket being built from Second Life.Here is a screen shot







Motorcycle World

Today we were allocated to log on our won in Second Life we had to visit 3 venues in Second Life and write a small review on each.

The first venue I selected was Motorbike, when I first entered i realised there was a motor track buldings of all sorts such as Car show rooms, Police stations, Motor garages etc. It also included some kind of force fields to some of the buildings such as the police station you need special access to enter.



Tropical Beach

The second view that I visited was a tropical beach it had all of the above Shops a beach strip with cafes and shops and of course a beautiful beach it was buzzing with players it also included a park which had parks trees and water fountains.Visually it looked really good.





Alanti_1

The third world that I entered was called Al anti1 it basically was some sort of room which included motorcycles, show room cars and of course nude pictures of ladies covered on all rooms of the complex. I think this site was for mature audiences.





Here we did some brain storming they consisted of:

P.O.D
Point of difference
*Theme
*Prehistoric theme
*Cartoon
*space/aliens
*Futuristic
*Medieval
*Historical tombs
*Graveyard/Spooks
*Changing land
*Ghetto
*Gangster
*Underground
*Western
*Ancient times