JeremyBarrick

What I have learned about my Inform 7 project...

I learned that out of the three players who played the game all like it.
Rock and Roll Scum needs more rooms and less features.
I want to clean up the game, a bit, by focusing less on detail and more on the game itself.
I learned that players were getting stuck. My rooms were vague and difficult to navigate through. For instance, I use a key in one room to get into another in order to let the "band" in to play at the club. I named it "skeleton key", the testers were confused by this. I shoul call it either "key" or "skeleton key".
I also need to establish my characters. I use to main characters, Kyle and Jezabel. Kyle needs to interact with Jezabel in order to get a key, which opens the door. She serves aa a groupie.
I also learned that Inform 7 is sensitive. Typing the wrong thing, while developing the game will throw you off. And I was for a moment.
I will clean up the dead ends, detail the "van", specify if the door unlocks, and add more rooms. By doing this, my testers will be less confused and more prone to play my game than another of its type.

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Taylor

“Nowadays it’s essential for journalists to blog,” says Professor Mary Quigley to a class of 16 NYU journalism students.

Has blogging taken over the traditional medium of print? The end is near, solely due to the digital world.From cassette tapes to CDs. I have survived generations of change. Because of new media journalism, I have to suffer in my trade, making me feel worthless and less wanted, physically, in the print world. I am now just a number with no face. An ID only to be known amongst close friends and remote acquaintances. I am not on a rant though, I am moving along in the online world. New Media Journalism! A world where anyone can become the next big thing. I am really disappointed. At first, when entering college, I felt that I was on the cutting edge of technology. Now I feel like I missed the bus. Sad and all alone. Don't feel that bad, I do own a HDTV. I guess if you do not move within the digital world, then you are in the land of the lost. A land that time forgot. This subject always gets me fired up. I took a long hiatus from college, only to return years later. Now, I sit, feeling rejected all because the physical world is no longer wanted. Everything has gone online; magazines, novels, shopping, ordering out, and even text books, not to mention MySpace and Facebook. I read 1984, and yes Big Brother is watching.

Cochran

"The print version of a newspaper or magazine offers an entirely different experience and content than the online version" (Cochran)

I feel that maybe I jumped to conclusions, as did Taylor. I think blogging verses print comes from different perspectives as well as age groups. I couldn't bring in an 8-track cartridge and tell the younger students that this was,once, the medium platform for listening to music. Nobody would understand that, just as I, really, didn't grasp the concept of blogging my first semester at Seton Hill University(SHU). You, always, need the old to to teach the new. If we didn't have foundations set, we would be lost. New mediums would come about constantly. Taylor went about her rant the wrong way. She reacted like an unaware freshmen.So I can really relate to her.

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"With the aid of a computer and Internet access, anybody can become an online newspaper publisher even if he or she only works from a basement in Waukegan, IL." (p.17, Rosales)

I have read so much about this ever since my freshmen year. Yes, it is frustrating that anyone can become a journalist. I feel, though, that the GOOD journalists are the ones who endure 4 or more years of education learning the RIGHT way to do things. If I am interviewed for a job and the position comes down to a woman who has been blogging news in her bedroom for the last 3 years or myself who has gone through 4 years of college and on his way to graduate school; I better get the job. Of course, citizen journalists can be used to ones advantage, for example-"Gothamgazete.com is a New York news site that also uses that help of citizen journalists. Readers from different boroughs of New York are asked to submit tips, stories, and commentaries, which the editors read, edit, and then post those that are news worthy." (p.17, Rosales) Everyday, ordinary citizens are going out and bringing back news for the mentioned website, for free. I am sure they are not compensated for their efforts, but mentioned as a contributor.

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"A good editor needs skills in diplomacy and leadership, in organization and managing people, in boosting battered egos and smoothing ruffled feathers. You've got to be able to inspire your staff to produce prize-worthy stories while making sure the pages you're responsible for get to the printer on time." (p.77, Kanigel)

The hierarchy of he paper is the editor. That person has the responsibility of every person on his/her staff. If one does not exemplify the necessary skills to become an editor, then there is no reason to attempt it. A little off the beaten path, I remember reading Spider-Man comics when I was young, Peter Parker worked as a photographer for the daily newspaper, J. Jonah Jameson, his editor, was a rough, gruff, stern man who always demanded Parker to go out and get pictures of the Spider-Man. My point is that editors always get portrayed as stern, in your face type characters. I think that flows over into reality as well. If I had the responsibility of an entire newspaper, I would not be so nice when my reporters do not get their articles in on time, or something gets ruined in the print. They do carry the burden. SNSG had many good sections and tips on how to be a good editor.

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