If you are a frequent reader on this blog you have probably seen the earlier updates on the computer game I created together with Tom, Brendan, Gary and Elias last semester. If this is your first time here, or you just visited by accident earlier: welcome! You can find more information about the process clicking the ‘DMSP’ banner in the word cloud in the right toolbar. It has been an interesting process from the early stage definition and clarification of…
As the second semester in my master program is moving towards the end I have some content I want to share with you all. Beside the digital marketplace course and a reading course I have been working on a digital media studio project, or as we call it, the DMSP. In this course sound designers, the digital design media students, the composers and some of us, the digital media and culture students, have been working together on different projects using…
If you have spent time trying out the endless opportunities contained in the art of programming you know how frustrating testing can be. Endless nights and days with an endless amount of changing variables and recompiling. A missing semicolon, a misspelled word, well, the reasons to frustrations are many. I know how it is, and I feel with you, you have my sympathy when you trying to clear up a for-for-for-for loop with ten different curly brackets, and that’s just…
The Non-linear Narrative group, where I’m one of the members, handed in the first assignment in the Digital Media Studio Project on Friday. Together with Brendan, Tom, Gary and Elias I’m working on creating a story which is determined by a random computer model in combination with some pre-written elements. This approach poses some difficulties in the manner of how to superimpose story elements on something which has elements of randomness, and where you are without total control. We have…
This post is written as a blog post on the Digital Media Studio Project blog Non-Linear Narratives. In this post I want to discuss some aspect of object oriented programming, and some philosophy behind the non-linear computer program in its current version. The program is built in Processing, which utilizes the Java programming language, and is ideal to make sketches with its easy-to-create graphical user interface (GUI). Processing has a clear division between its two runtime methods which are crucial…
The last weeks my Digital Media Studio Project group and I have been spinning around ideas on how to make a non-linear narrative based on a computer model using agents. This is an interesting way of taking advantage of Object Oriented Modelling, since the agents have attributes and methods relevant to humans. The model is based upon a matrix consisting of two arrays, this model is ideal to represent geographical space, and especially maps seen from above because of the…