TinyFantasyTown

Benjamin Ciufo

CharNG

I had used CharNG specifically for the random encounter with the weird guy when you sit down. I had plugged in the first page of the Bee Movie into the website and ran it until it started to break down.

n+7

For n+7, you can find that when you talk to Neb by "the Last Drop" tavern. I just ran "the Last Drop" in n+7 to simulate someone hard of hearing mishearing the name in way too many times.

Otter.ai

For Otter.ai, I specifically used it on NYA-ko because I had crowdsourced her lines from a friend. I whittled down the stream of consiousness into a coherent dialogue and stuck it into my game.

Oblique Strategies

Here's a runthrough of all the Oblique strategies cards I had used.

  1. Accept Advice: I had the player accept the advice of NYA-ko and Neb and rewarded that action properly.
  2. Do nothing for as long as possible: You can spot this when the player oversleeps in bed twice, and its then where they get a little boost in their magic stat. This also applies to getting random dialogue and an encounter when you sit on the bench for too long.
  3. A line has two sides: This is when NYA-ko breaks character depending on wether or not you wanted a little tutorial on the wishing well mechanic. She either acts like an annoying anime character or just drops the act and leaves you alone.
  4. Look at the order in which you do things: In this regard, I had it so that the player could check out whatever they wanted in whatever order they wanted to in the town square. While some of the options weren't too deep, you can interact with any option non-linearly and it shouldn't break the game.
  5. Ghost Echoes:Ghost echoes came into play when you encounter the random dude on the bench. When he finally stops speaking in CharNG, he turns into the spirit of Barry B. Benson and traumatizes the player's character.

Botnik.org

I had utilized botnik.org when I had created the wanted poster on the job board in the town square. I had helped it a little so that it would make some type of sense, but the magpie, spider, and wanted poster were all ai-generated.

Anagram Generator

The Anagram Generator was used for the locations of Bornyolk and Amanta 'Nth. It may be obvious, but they are anagrams for Brooklyn and Manhattan, respectively.

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing came in the form of creating characters to fill the world. Nya-ko, the bard, the bartender, and the tiny little guy (blacksmith) were all suggestions from my friends when I asked them for characters to fill this fantasy town.

Conclusion

This class has been a positive experience overall on my student career here at Pratt. I know the basics of HTML now! If I really hated myself, I could make my portfolio page completely from scratch and probably do a half decent job at it. My prior expereince was only in C# (I think), but now I know what a stylesheet is, how to import images/text/video, and the nitty-gritty of what it takes to format a website. I won't lie, I came into this class rearing to go and ended on a particularly low note. With this being said, I just wanted to thank you on how accomodating you were to me and how much I appreciate the patience. This was a wonderful expereince and I hope to see you around on campus sometime!