Step Quest
Stepest is a multiplayer exergame for mobile devices where two groups of three players compete to capture spaces on a board by taking real-world steps. e team with the most amount of captures spaces at the end of three weeks wins. Each player earns an amount of moves based on the daily steps recorded by their Fitbit activity tracker. Players have the option strategize with one another to bring their team ahead and crush the opposing competition
Reading Group on Computational Narrative – Fall 2016-17
Week 2 A survey on story generation techniques for authoring computational narratives http://nil.cs.uno.edu/publications/papers/kybartas2016survey.pdf Plot and space generation mapped from manual to automatic Comes to the conclusion that automatic space generation is an unexplored field Week 3 Requiem for a theory: the ‘story grammar’ story Vladimir Propp, Lakoff, etc Story grammars are meant to be used as tools for analysis, or tools for creation? “Debunked” by Black and Wilensky At the time of writing, story grammars had fallen out of the academic eye Three computer-based models of storytelling: BRUTUS, MINSTREL and MEXICA http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950705103000480?np=y BRUTUS Minstrel Mexica Week 4…