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This week I began building templates for betherenyc nodejs and ejs and playing with data, saving it to the server through javascript. Next week databases. You can add an event through the form, view a single event page that is dynamically generated, plus the new event will be added to the homepage.
This week’s assignment is about focusing on the Core Experience. We were to develop a simple, single concept idea such as thistothat.com or cuteroulette.com. Develop a web homepage schematic or key screen of an app for our idea. The key is to state a clear value proposition and then represent it schematically using the tools in Balsamiq.
For my project betherenyc the core idea is:
to find events that are happening around you and now.
Here are some wireframes I came up with on the desktop and mobile versions.
T.C. Boyle’s short story, the Ape Lady in Retirement, in a six panel comic strip. My sketch:
Building on my mockup for betherenyc. Here is the latest. I played with gradients, rounded corners, custom fonts, and opacity.
And here’s another I’m toying with.
We are using Heroku for deploying our apps in class. Heroku is a service to host your web application in the ‘cloud’. Their tools allow us to easily increase the number of servers, database and performance of your web site if you have an unexpected wave of traffic.
I got everything installed and launched this simple app to prove it:
http://bethere-heroku.herokuapp.com/
I will be building on this throughout the semester.
After play testing our little game, we make a few revisions. Below is the game description with pictures that we played in class.
a people game by Archana Kumar, Elena Parker, Sarah Hallacher, and Michelle Boisson
There are heroes and there are villains, and they hate each other. They’ve been spread out randomly in the town and each needs to help the Superhero and the Supervillain save them. The catch is that both Supers are blind and, naturally, want to kill each other. Also the regular heroes and villains are frozen and cannot move. They must use their voices to guide their blind saviors to them, while trapping their opponent.
Blind Marvel is a game played with a minimum of 8 people but can be scaled to up to any number of players.
Roles
Superhero (1 player)
Supervillain (1 player)
Heroes (1/2 rest of players)
Villains (1/2 rest of players)
Game Play
The Superhero and the Supervillain are blindfolded and cannot see where they are going. They move around the space trying to collect their teammates. If a Superhero touches a hero, the hero becomes unfrozen and joins the Superhero by directly following the Superhero. The hero cannot move on his own, only with the Superhero. Though the hero may continue to direct the Super with his voice. As the Superhero unfreezes more heroes the line behind him grows bigger.
If a Superhero tries to touch a villain instead of a hero, the villain then freezes the Superhero (and his team behind him) for 3 seconds.
All of this is also true for the Supervillain and the villains.
Line severing
Regular villains and heroes have the power to sever the opposing team’s lines. They do this with a karate chop motion over the line. If this happens, all the players from the back of the line to point where the chop happened, must return to their original place and are frozen again.
Winning
The first team to collect all their teammates wins.
Getting Started
A Superhero and a Supervillain are chosen at random and are blindfolded immediately.
Once the Supers are blinded, everyone else spreads out and are randomly assigned a role of villain or hero. You can use a deck of cards with an equal number of red and black cards, then hand them out. Or you can count off.
A large space
A blindfold for each Super
A way to randomly assign villains and heroes
I’m a cheap Nuyokah. My Goal: to find free and cheap events in NYC happening now, today, and soon!
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