Thursday, April 7, 2011

a recommendation

A friendly classmate recommended a source for our possible programming needs
It is called ODesk.
In the case that we may need to program something such as an "App" for a phone, this may be a good place to seek out for skills....unless someone in our group is holding out on us ;) ?

For the proposal, Travis has mentioned he has created a brief overview of what we will submit.
Reflecting on Shona's presentation- I enjoyed how she incorporated pages of "inspiration" as an addition to her research. These pages brought a visual element to the thinking process, which I feel may be helpful for us in further developing our ideas.
I would be willing to gather some inspiration pages, and create a PDF to display these. This could include artists of interest with similar tactics ( joel recommended a few in our meeting), devices and methodolgies of interest, snippets of what we have already created (the game, photos, etc.), historical elements, and more!

As a reminder...we should move our game in a "playful" direction, that has an "awe" factor, whether it be negative or compassionate. We also must acknowledge that we cannot ignore history. We could second guess the idea of incorporating the ever-arising fact of the last lynching in California, but think about this : Remember when you were a third grader playing the Oregon Trail ....
....and your entire family died off one by one from a fever or diarrhea?
These are the facts and they must be confronted...

A few research elements we could consider to further develop our ideas (please feel free to add more) ...
- interactive game for phone
- Q & R codes
- Geo caching

1 comment:

  1. was just looking at blast theory and saw some cool videos check this one out
    http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_amachinetoseewith.html

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