ENGL 376MM:
New Media Studies

A Fall 2008 course at the University of Mary Washington exploring the discourses of counter-factual world building in new media culture.

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On the Real

This isn't the final project that I wanted.

I had a very cool game concept put together and planned out, but couldn't tie everything together, which is a shame.

I'm sure that over break all the planets will align and I will be blessed with the time and foresight to complete it the way I have it imagined.

Instead here is a bit of prose about the real, and a few trailheads and a puzzle that are almost ready to be tied together.

I think there is enough here to make something really cool, or, at least, virtually cool.

Reflecting on the class as a whole, I really love the concept of comparing the Virtual and the Real, and think reality is completely subjective.

I've enjoyed the idea of creating little bits and pieces of a world, starting with a webpage, interactive fiction and then on to full blown ARG-ness. One thing that i really liked about this class is that you get a chance to make something up, something completely random and off the wall, and then physically insert it into the world, and that act makes it real. So Cool.

Crazyness.

Cheers!

//EDIT// Let's try this with the attachments this time.

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