For this project I was inspired by the moments of boredom I’ve experienced. Nowadays when one has the phone to keep ourselves entertained all the time, it is hard to think about the days where one was stuck with one’s mind during boring situations. So therefore I created through Twine The Waiting Room, where the user is the main character in a hospital waiting room waiting for their turn, observing their surroundings and getting bored.
For my game I used two fonts: Courier Prime and Alice
CharNG
For CharNG I enjoy how the machine sometimes creates really spaced out text in the output section. I was inspired by the shapes created by the text and
decided to include in the title page a text that follows a path with the
quote: “patience is a virtude.”
Crowdsourcing
For
crowdsourcing I thought about the idea of engaging the user with the game
by making them type their “name” and that becoming the name on the script
of the main character.
N+7
With the N+7 machine I placed my
initial text and got the idea of using the words “secrets” and “sculpture”
in my story. The receptionist whisper in the beginning, and my main
character looks at a sculpture when bored.
Otter.ai
For
otter.ai I tried telling some narration paragraphs and then altering them
to fix my broken english.
Oblique Strategies
- Do something boring:
Main character plays with their thumbs.
- Look at the order in which you
do things: Main character counts their hand callous in a specific manner.
- Take a break: Inspired the scene leading to the ending where the character leaves the scene.
- Ask
your body: Inspired a description of the “stomach complaining about food”.
- Emphasize repetition: Inspired character action of going around in
circles around the chairs.
botnik.org / Voicebox - Predictive Writer
I got on the
Predictive Writer: …cold walls against the lights. This inspired a
description text: “cold walls against the bright lights of the hospital
give a frigid feeling.” This text is at the begining of my story.
Anagram Generator
I wrote on the
generator: Waiting Room and I got “Magi Trio Now” Inspired to mention that
the pregnant woman will have triplets
I suggest that I should get an A/A- on the project because I pushed myself to use Twine, a platform I had never used before and to discover new html aspects like setting type on a curve. However I understand it is not perfect, and there is room for improvement. Twine does not check for typos and I wouldn’t be surprised if it has spelling mistakes that went over me as I focused on the coding syntax. Additionally, the only thing I did not include in my project which was listed in the Google Forms is a Twine Array.
Throughout the semester I overall delivered most of the projects and assignments on time, and I gave my best effort each time. This class made me want to learn more and seeing how useful these skills are, I was eager to learn constantly. One could argue that there were days when I could’ve kept my camera on, but nonetheless whenever we had game activities and games I always participated.