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Rootbeans – Open Source

Maf'j Alvarez November 7, 2013 Blog, Coursework, game rules design, Rootbeans, Web Authoring No Comments
Rootbeans – Open Source

1. Put the bean game project out as open source Connect with the open source arts and games communities Create a random rules generator that track it’s own creation and play history Facilitate documenting and sharing game maps and stories

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Open Intent

Maf'j Alvarez November 7, 2013 Blog, Coursework, Rootbeans, Web Authoring No Comments

I’m talking about a course module statement of intent – Cultures of Multimedia Authoring & Web Design (I think Sue is in the middle of perhaps renaming this module). For me the issue is that I do web authoring every

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Magic Beans

Maf'j Alvarez November 1, 2013 Blog, Coursework, game rules design, Rootbeans No Comments
Magic Beans

Description You’re life is in turmoil. You have many potential opportunities ahead of you but don’t know how to take them. You are not alone. You have someone with you who can help. You also have 12 magic beans, each

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Bean Game documentation design

Maf'j Alvarez October 24, 2013 Coursework, Rootbeans No Comments
Bean Game documentation design

create a single game document broken into all above sections in a single wordpress page and add an image to it abstract variables and attributes with intention of creating a rules generator use javascript to create a game generator which

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Exchanging values – compromise is inevitable

Maf'j Alvarez October 22, 2013 Blog, Rootbeans No Comments
Exchanging values – compromise is inevitable

Saturday 19th October saw a few students from the MA Digital media arts course meeting up for Katya’s fabled strawberry cream cake and playing the bean game. This time there were 5 people playing. Cindy, Nana, Katya, her daugher Silva

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The ball-of-mud transition: Akvo.org

Maf'j Alvarez October 16, 2013 Blog, Research, Rootbeans, Tech news No Comments

“A Big Ball of Mud is a haphazardly structured, sprawling, sloppy, duct-tape-and-baling-wire, spaghetti-code jungle. These systems show unmistakable signs of unregulated growth, and repeated, expedient repair. Information is shared promiscuously among distant elements of the system, often to the point

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Bean game with James Shreeve at the Fountainhead 10/10/13

Maf'j Alvarez October 15, 2013 Blog, Coursework, relational aesthetics, Rootbeans No Comments
Bean game with James Shreeve at the Fountainhead 10/10/13

Thursday 10th October saw the first beans game played with James Shreeve at the Fountainhead pub in Brighton. The first game of the Digital Media Arts course. Whilst course leader Sue Gollifer and visiting lecturers Sam Proud and Paul Bunkham

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