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frenchifries · 3 years ago

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Deltarune.com “Secret” Pages

People have already catalogued the secret pages in Google Docs (1, 2), but they’re a little scattered for my tastes, so I thought I’d try to make my own. This is a compilation of information discovered by myself and many other people, so lots of credit goes to everyone who contributed to the linked documents!

1 & 2. code & code/comments

The bottom of the sweepstakes page contains this banner...

...which links to this “blog post” in which Noelle mentions the official Dragon Blazers website (an in-universe video game many Deltarune characters play) updating with “a bunch of weird links.” The number of links mentioned was originally lower (the first reported number seems to be 14), but increased as more pages went live on the Deltarune site, capping out at 26.

The included audio file, midi-holiday-country.mp3, is a country-style rendition of jingle bells. In the post comments, Berdly attempts to convince Noelle to make him a mod or admin of the blog, which she rejects by alleging that her computer is bugged and the admin panel won’t work.

Berdly also complains that someone keeps prank calling him, as he has included his phone number in his username; the number was originally a static fake phone number (beginning with 555) but was at some point changed to randomize itself on every page load; it still has a 555 area code, and the number itself is one digit too long to be valid.

Jockington comments to ask if Dragon Blazers contains sports; it doesn’t.

3. icee

The sweepstakes page also displays one of three randomized banners. this one...

...links to a page titled Have you seen him? containing a submission from Noelle as a young child (with poor spelling and grammar) in which she encountered a creepy Ice-e’s pizza box. As we know from her room in Queen’s mansion, Noelle has had something of a fixated fear of the Ice-e character, worrying that he’s real and potentially dangerous.

The mention of Noelle’s sister at the end there is exciting! Let’s see what that links to!

4. december

...Oh. Well, you will notice this is of course a fake 404 page. It could certainly be a reference to the fact that December is known to be missing, perhaps even trapped outside of reality/within the game’s code itself. The note “had its name changed” could also be trying to make a point that Noelle’s sister doesn’t actually go by that name anymore; After all, we’ve mostly heard her referred to as...

5. dess

This page doesn’t seem to be linked from anywhere, but its existence may be intentionally hinted at by the above page. It contains a sprite of a guitar, and the page title reads * (It’s a red guitar).

When the guitar is clicked, a version of Lost Girl plays. The song is called findher.mp3, and was also uploaded as a short, titled decemberholiday.ogg, to the holidaygirl1225 Youtube channel (we might circle back on this in another post, as this one is going to be atrociously long).

All of this suggests that the song Lost Girl is indeed intended to be associated, at least in part, with our very own lost girl Dess Holiday, and that Dess may have played guitar. Interestingly, when Deltarune Chapter 2 is hacked so you can attempt to equip the Puppet Scarf to Noelle, she comments that it “feels like guitar strings.” Noelle is known to draw comparisons to things that remind her of her sister.

6. secretpipis

Now, let’s get back to those banners.

This one links to a page with an image of a single pipis, which plays a crowd gasping sound effect (crowd_gasp.mp3) when clicked. the page is titled You lost! Not much else to this one.

7. secret

The final banner we’re looking at links to a page titled But what’s behind door number one? containing a 4x4 grid of blue cabinets.

Clicking each cabinet opens it, accompanied by a sound effect labeled wing.mp3. Most will simply show the open empty cabinet and play a crowd groaning sound effect (crowd_ouch.mp3). The following cabinets will trigger different effects:

Row 1, Column 2: A Ralsei plush appears, accompanied by the adoring crowd_aww.mp3.

Row 2, Column 3: A pipis appears, accompanied by crowd_gasp.mp3.

Row 3, Column 4: A photo of an empty gumball machine appears, accompanied by crowd_ahh.mp3.

Row 4, Column 1: A cropped screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the website Superbad, a “web art” project from the late 90s.

Row 4, Column 3: Links to...

8. chair

This eerie page contains a picture of a chair with a cloth draped over its back.

Clicking the chair changes the page title from But what if it could... to ...get darker than dark? and swaps the chair with a dark, undulating version of itself, accompanied by the sound effect water.mp3.

There is also a smallish chance that clicking the chair will result in a “jumpscare” consisting of Spamton’s pixellated eyes, accompanied by the creepy laughter sound face.mp3; this jumpscare will quickly redirect to the main sweepstakes page.

9. catpetterz

Linked in the description of the “Fur-thentic Cardboard Box,” this is another blog post from Noelle in which she discusses one of her favorite games, Cat Petterz 2. The accompanying audio file is a corrupted-sounding version of the first one, midi-holiday-country.mp3, except this one is deceptively titled midi-holiday_country.mp3 – the second dash is replaced with an underscore.

I love Noelle’s discussions of weird, vaguely unsettling video game lore and mechanics. It feels very realistic to how many games, especially older ones, have aspects that aren’t inherently outright scary, but that, especially to a young mind, can come across as creepy and disturbing. I remember having plenty of irrational fears around strange video game glitches as a kid!

The link at the end here leads us to...

10. egg

Another entry from Noelle, although it seems the black and gray pages represent her personal blog or digital journal, as opposed to the pink blog where she talks about games specifically – though the page title on these entries is still “Welcome to holidaygirl1225’s game secrets, glitches, and theories blog!” so I guess it’s all supposed to be part of the same blog. The link at the end links back to /code.

In this post we learn that Noelle encountered a “special egg” in Cat Petterz that never hatched, made a weird sound when clicked, and “left home due to happiness” after being cared for as opposed to running away from neglect. She suspects the problem arose from having too many incompatible mods, but the fact that this page is linked from a second source – and that Noelle is certain the egg had a name despite being unable to remember what it was – suggests another possible source of said egg.

11. man

Sources say this page actually existed on the Deltarune website before the sweepstakes. I believe I remember seeing it as well, but I couldn’t tell you with 100% confidence. It mimics the strange hidden rooms in Chapters 1 and 2 in which Kris encounters the man who gives them eggs.

The page is titled * (Behind the tree.). – yes, with a period inside and outside the parenthesis – and clicking the space above the tree links to /egg.

12. bluecircle

Continuing Noelle’s Cat Petterz 2 saga, in this post – linked from the description of the Pipis Bath Rug – Noelle recounts the time she put some “random letters and numbers” from a mysterious spam email into the game as a mod.

When loaded, the game created a glitchy creature consisting of a single blue circle, capable of reproducing on its own until it created so many copies that the game crashed.

I wonder if Noelle’s note about how she “couldn’t explain why anyone liked it, but it was really funny to see who did XD” is meant to reflect people’s unexpected reaction to Spamton as a character 🤔

Once again, the link at the end leads back to /code.

13. kris dreemurr kriss

Let’s wrap up Noelle’s last two blog posts. They’re both marked as private, only visible to friends. This one is linked in the description for the Heart Locket. In it, Noelle recalls when she and Kris were younger and would play together at her house. Apparently Kris would sometimes play piano. The page is accompanied by an audio file called pianpian.mp3 that consists of... somewhat odd piano music.

So it seems Kris used to play piano, though we know from interacting with the hospital piano that they seem unable to do so while under the player’s control.

14. the n3w3st g1rl g1rl

Linked from the description of the Engraved Wristwatch – and no, I’m not sure what it means that the URL is spelled like that. Here Noelle describes an incident, likely shortly after Susie joined their class, in which Susie threatened Kris and said their mom would be happier without them. Yikes!

It’s interesting how Noelle seemingly recognizes how brutal this behavior is while still retaining her desire for Susie to push her around. Other people in other posts have already talked at length about Susie’s potential reasons for saying this stuff and how Kris might feel about it, so I won’t linger on it here.

15. d a m n y o u t e n n a

Now this is an interesting one! Linked in the description of the Spamton Engraved Wedding Ring – specifically, the text reading [It hurts! It Hurts!]. The page is titled DELETE THIS !. We’ve got a TV with a red X over it, and Spamton’s ramblings about how everything is someone’s fault, and that everyone will pay, except...

Mike, whose name is written in black so as to blend in with the background.

Tenna, of course, likely refers to a TV antenna. Is this another character involved in the Chapter 3 Dark World and Spamton’s backstory?

Clicking on the TV changes the page to TV static and the title to YOU’RE EARLY!, accompanied by the sound effect tv_static_bad.mp3. Scrolling down this page reveals some difficult-to-read white text that says “WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? YOU SHOULDN’T BE HERE!” At the bottom of the page are two clickable images, camouflaged with the background as they also consist of TV static. The upper one changes the page yet again to a blue screen, titled AREN’T YOU FORGETTING SOMETHING? When you scroll back to the top, you will find a... door?

Which takes us to...

16. icepalace glaceir

(Yes, it’s spelled glaceir. Also for the record, the “broken image” is in fact a properly embedded image called screen.gif that intentionally mimics the old-school broken image icon.) Did I say we wrapped up Noelle’s blog posts? Sorry, I lied. It’s 2:30 in the morning where I am right now!

Ah yes, more old childhood video game weirdness. Noelle talks about a maze in Dragon Blazers where you can get stuck if you access it without the necessary character in your party. Except, in her persistent curiosity, she found a way to a door, and was able to repeat this despite feeling like the process is different every time. Unfortunately, she could never figure out how to open that door...

17. ramb

back on the static screen, we will find that the lower clickable image takes us to a... different door. The page title is Where could this be?

Clicking the door changes the title to Welcome to the Green Room! and we are greeted by a very pleasant looking room with some sofas, TVs, a bar (with a little Maus hanging up in it? Also swords?), and perhaps some sort of vending machine. A nice chill variant of the already quite chill Hip Shop, called greenroom.mp3. This seems like a shop area that will be in Chapter 3.

Each door leads to a different page. The one on the left takes us to...

18. weather

Here we seem to get a sneak peek of a couple weather-based Darkners we’ll likely encounter in Chapter 3! Exciting stuff! For some reason, the title of this page is You’re the Annoying Now Dog! (a reference to the website You’re the Man Now, Dog).

Clicking on these guys gets us a full page of them doing a little attack animation, large text that says THE WEATHER ALWAYS STICKS TOGETHER, and a variant of Rude Buster called battle_vapor.mp3.

i feel it’s worth mentioning that the 3D text effect was achieved by duplicating, resizing, repositioning, and recoloring every line multiple times (about 30-40 times each).

19. changingroom

Back in the Green Room, the door with the star on it takes us to the “changing room,” a page titled (Private...). A pink curtain awaits, just begging to be clicked.

Doing so cues up the “wing” sound effect again, and reveals a “Shadowman” putting on a sock. After a moment, he screams, using the aptly-titled scream.mp3.

There is also a chance that, instead of a Shadowman, you will find a tiny spinning Lancer!

Doing nothing will result in the curtain simply closing again, allowing you to open and close it as many times as you wish. However, you can also click on the Shadowman or Lancer before the curtain closes to go to, well, /shadowmen or /lancer! So let’s look at those.

20. shadowmen

More exciting stuff! This appears to be a preview of a Chapter 3 battle against Darkners called Shadowmen, sock-wearing cartoony gangster type characters that wield saxophones and shotguns. We get to see the Fun Gang “knock their socks off” with this cool group attack that for some reason involves wearing slick suits!

battle_vapor.mp3 also accompanies this battle. This page is also linked from the description of the Ralsei Nurse Costume For Plush.

21. lancer

Just a lil picture of a very small round Lancer, also linked in the description of the Lancer Cookie. Shares the You’re the Annoying Now Dog! title with /weather.

Clicking on Lancer does a similar thing as /weather as well, showing us a full page of repeating, spinning Lancers and large text that says HO HO HO! YOU JUST GOT LANCERED!!! with the same 3D text trick, accompanied by a fast-paced chiptune rendition of Lancer’s theme, called lancer-spin.mp3.

22. tv

Okay! Back to /ramb (the Green Room)! Finally, the door on the right leads to...

A TV, turned off. No, really, that’s all that’s on this page. I’m looking at the source code right now. It’s just this. The page title simply reads * It’s off.

23. bluebubble.rodeo

This is an odd one, as it’s not even technically hosted on deltarune.com but is its own standalone URL – which is found on the Spamton Toiler Paper. Not in the description for the toilet paper. ON the toilet paper.

Yeah, if you zoomed in to read that and decided to type in that URL, you would be greeted by a picture of Kris and Susie in cowboy attire on a page titled Get ready for 2 minutes of mildly entertaining shoot-out action! Clicking on the image plays a whip sound effect (whip.mp3).

24. blink

A page titled What? depciting Susie in her dark world outfit lying down asleep.

Clicking on her will cause her to open her eyes, appearing confused. She will proceed to blink at random intervals, with each blink accompanied by blink.mp3.

Clicking on her again will put her back to sleep.

25. sighting

A page titled SIGHTING 1997 depicting a slow zoom in on a grainy black and white photograph of a Spamton plush sitting on a toilet. Clicking anywhere on the page switches to a different photo and causes digitalroots.mp3 to start playing.

26. dog

I... don’t know why I saved this one for last. It’s not the most exciting page. I was just trying to group things together in ways that made sense, and these last few pages sort of wound up here at the end. Sorry.

This one is pretty straightforward. Titled HALL OF FAME, it’s linked from the description of the Championship Belt. Clicking on the image causes the Annoying Dog to appear in the picture frame, with the words BEST INU emblazoned across the plaque, and playing a triumphant variation of HEY EVERY ! simply called dog.mp3.

conclusion?

So, depending on how you count up all these pages – does /code count even though it introduces the idea of the secret pages? does /code/comments count as its own page? – that brings us to 26 pages, the final number mentioned in Noelle’s original blog post.

It took me a long time to write up and format this post! I think we’re approaching the 5 hour mark. So I hope the information here is cool and interesting to everyone, and if anyone has any questions, comments, addendums, or corrections, feel free to let me know.

Oh, and if you haven’t already, be sure to check out Toby’s September status update! Some neat stuff is in there.

#deltarune #spamton sweepstakes

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bypeopledigital · 4 years ago

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shara-eroft · 4 years ago

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Meditation #2

Intro:

I wasn't really sure where to start with this meditation. I was really intrigued by last weeks discussion and readings, especially our introduction to Tarot. I thought it would be interesting to recreate a similar experience but digitally. For this meditation, I decided to work on a web-page, as I also wanted to improve on those skills.

Idea:

I want to create a webpage which can guide a querent through a situation by drawing cards which have individual divinatory meanings. This is clearly inspired by Tarot readings.

How it works:

Ideally, the user would land on the first page and follow the prompts given:

Hello, how are you today?

Today, I'll be guiding you through a situation you may be concerned about or seek clarity on.

Before I start the reading, look through the divinatory meanings of each cardNow it's time. Let me cast a reading for you.

[images and text for each card]

Think about a situation you'd like some clarity or insight on.

Close your eyes and breathe in...Hold it for 5 seconds and breathe out.

Place your hand on your mouse or trackpad and do this again. Think about your situation and keep that as your focus.

Bring your energy forward and let it escape through your fingers.

Close your eyes and breathe in...Hold it for 5 seconds and breathe out.

Once you're ready, click the cast button.

The querent would keep their situation in mind as they click on the cast button. The webpage would then load six different cards (randomly.)

Each card represents:

1 = past 2 = present 3 = challenges 4 = strengths 5 = advice 6 = outcome

This was inspired by the Tarot spread we did in class.

I designed 8 different cards for this prototype. Ideally, I would want to create about 20-24 cards. I used photoshop for this process.

Outcome:

https://sharatihani.github.io/oracle/home.html

Reflection

Unfortunately, I didn't manage to make a working webpage which actually randomized each card outcome, as my Javascript knowledge is very limited :( Instead, I focused on the designs of the cards before working on the code and I realized I couldn't figure it out in time. I ended up using a template from one of my previous projects instead. Therefore, the webpage only shows one set outcome for now. I spent a bit of time trying to change the code to make it do what I wanted it to, but had no luck. However, I really want to work on this and actually get it to generate/draw six random cards.

Overall, I still think I like the idea and I do wish to expand and improve upon what I have so far. I feel like this is a good first step/guide and I would definitely be able to make this a working site. There is still many aspects of cleromancy that are present such as providing some kind of answer (semantic context.) The querent is the user and the reader is technically the computer, moreover there is a discrete set of possible outcomes (would be working if I figure out.)

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oliviawhen · 8 years ago

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Artist Interviews (2011) - Sarah Mensinga

Recently I got a request to repost the student email interviews I did with some established artists back on my blogspot in 2011. They really did help me, and I’m even more amazed now, than I was then that they took the time to reply. So here’s part 1/3, starting with concept artist and writer Sarah Mensinga, whose thoughts on style are always at the top of my mind on the topic even now. :

[Sarah Mensinga] is an illustrator, animator, and comic artist who is currently taking time to work on her own graphic novel called The Wellington Division. I first read her work The Changeling in Flight, and I think her comics are lovely and endearing!

Interview 1) What sort of medium or programs to you use for your work? I usually start with paper and color-erase pencils. I scan that and paint it digitally, usually with Photoshop, sometime with both Painter and Photoshop. I love the look of Illustrator, but I've never had the chance to sit down and really figure it out. 2) What are some of your favorite websites/magazines/books/publications for inspiration? I add nearly every cool art blog I find to my google reader, which I try to check everyday. Most of the blogs I follow are conceptual artists in animation-related feilds. My newest discovery is ha.com, which is an online auction site. If you get a free membership, you can browse their lots and study high-resolution images of some fantastic illustrators. As far as books go, I have a huge collection of visual reference books. I love books on architecture and costume, most of all. 3) What was your favorite professional assignment that you've ever done? I once got to design some Wizard of Oz dolls for some product pitch. I don't think the project ever materialized, but it was a lot of fun. 4) You have a really distinctive, painterly style has it always been that way? How did you get there? Ha, it's a bit of a relief that you say that. I still feel that my painting is a bit unpredictable and that I'm not entirely happy with my process. I went to an arts high school and for my final year I focused on oil-painting and illustration. I think that gave me a pretty good foundation for learning how to digitally paint, but it wasn't until I started professionally character designing that I had to knuckle down and really learn how to digitally paint well. I realized that if I wanted my designs to catch the eyes of producers and directors who weren't necessarily accustomed to looking at line drawings, I'd better figure out how to make my designs look more like they would on screen. To learn, I asked friends who painted well a lot of questions, I did a lot of terrible paintings, I searched for tutorials and I studied the work of other artists I admired. I still do all those things. :) 5) What sort of process do you have? Do you work on many pieces at once or one at a time? My process now is a bit up in the air, but that's just because I'm not doing working full-time. (My kids are very little and I'm home with them.) In general though, I do a fairly tight line-drawing and scan it. I usually look for some photo (often completely unrelated) to create a color palette, and often tweak it even further in photoshop. I do a rough painted pass, keeping as many things on layers as I can and then I save and tighten and polish. The polishing part always takes forever. :) I do often have several projects on the go, both story-related and art-related. I try to focus on them one at a time, though. 6) What do you do when you can't come up with ideas? How do you manage stress? If I'm working on a professional project, usually I have enough direction from a client that it's not difficult to build on their ideas. But sometimes if I'm working on my own art and there is no deadline, I feel a bit lost. Often, I start pulling reference books down from my shelves and open them to random pages, looking for inspiration. Other times, I think about something I could draw that would make my daughter or husband smile. As for stress, I push through it! I'm definitely the sort of person that just gets more determined when confronted with something that is stressing me out. The more I work on it, the faster it will be done and the faster is will stop stressing me out. :) 7) How do you advertise yourself/get work? What works for you? At the moment, I'm sort of anti-advertising. :) Since I'm home full-time with my kids, and trying to focus on writing, I don't really want to be inundated with freelance projects. When my kids are older, I'll probably try to go back to a studio because I like how social it is. Or at the very least, I'll look into getting an art rep. I'm terrible at negotiating contracts.When I do want to advertise though, I find attending comic-conventions with my portfolio and lots of nice business cards pointing to my website works very well. Being active on my blog, helps too. 8) Is your personal work particularly different from your professional work? Yes. When working professionally, I often work on designs or draw subjects I might not otherwise. I think it's a good thing, it pushes me out of my comfort zone. My personal work usually revolves around stories I have on the go. 9) What's the best advice you would give a student aspiring to work as an illustrator? Don't go looking for your style. The best kind of style is something that naturally comes into your work and you can't get rid of it even if you wanted to. That way, it's really, genuinely you, it will set you apart and it will be unique.Never put limitations on yourself. Never tell yourself "this is as good as I will ever get" and feel frustrated. Sometimes it feels that way, but as long as you try to stay positive and keep trying to learn, you will always be improving throughout your career and new doors will open, which is exciting! :)

She's so nice! I felt more comfortable asking her random questions. She wrote such long, helpful replies. You can find Sarah over here on Twitter and Instagram!

#long post #text post #artist interview #sarah mensinga #illustration #parts of this may be dated since it's been 6 years

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olhaboyko · 4 years ago

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Week 12 - The design document

For this assignment, our group decided to settle on an 2D adventure game with a top-down angle that more resembled Enter the gungeon than Hotline Miami. In it the player/environment will be viewed more from a side view than from above to create some sense of depth and they would be able to more in all 4 directions. This layout/game type was chosen partially due to our limited experience in making of such game, the requirement for the code aspect of the assignment and due to our own preference.

The main objective of the game is for the player character to escape a maze-like mines that have monsters crawling through them with only their AI companion providing them with light. In this situation not only the players range of sight is limited but it is also outside their control by being given to a NPC that will possibly lag behind them, forcing the player either take their time and be caution with traversing the labyrinth or to be brash and rush though the dark mines. This visual restriction is commonly used in horror games to create tension and sense of lack of control.

“[…] biologically speaking, darkness is not the normal setting for human activity, it is self-evident that the necessity to perform various activities in the dark impose a considerable strain upon man, especially since the primacy of vision over the other senses is particularly conspicuous in the human species.” (Devereux, 1949)

Moreover, horror games provide players with a sort of challenge, where they are put in an artificial simulation of a threat which would stimulate them and upon winning (surviving) they would feel a sense of accomplishment and relief.

“While frightening media may be initially aversive, people high in sensation seeking and intellect/imagination, in particular, like intellectual stimulation and challenge and expect not just negative but also positive emotions from horror consumption. They brave the initially aversive response to simulate threats and so enter a positive feedback loop by which they attain adaptive mastery through coping with virtual simulated danger.” (Clasen, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen and Johnson, 2020)

Though in comparison to many horror games where they not only remove players ability to see but also the ability to retaliate against a threat, we decided to allow the player to fight back (though we are not yet sure if it will come to fruition due to time restriction and out current skill level). The players would be able to attack and kill the monsters and pick up health items if they get hurt together with being tasked to pick up keys to unlock the exit doors of the maze. The player is in no way forced to confront or kill the enemies and can decide to avoid them all together as they hunt for the keys which would provide the player with a choice, to either play aggressively or passively.

When it come to the topic of gameplay/player types the Four Bartle Types are always mentioned.

For them MUDs (multi-user dungeons or MMO’s as we now call them) was used as a basis to draw inspiration from, on what were the activities that players partook the most and receive the most enjoyment out off, which in turn created the archetypes.

Above you could see the Interest Graph, on its x-axes are displayer the importance of the game world vs the other players while on its y-axes are displayed the way the player interacts (interacting with other things, acting upon other things). The 4 types are the complete extremes in this graph.

“Achievers are proud of their formal status in the game's built-in level hierarchy, and of how short a time they took to reach it.[…] Explorers are proud of their knowledge of the game's finer points, especially if new players treat them as founts of all knowledge.[…] Socialisers are proud of their friendships, their contacts and their influence.[…] Killers are proud of their reputation and of their oft-practiced fighting skills.” (Bartle, 1996)

Though this model is the most mentioned one, later on in his other work called Designing Virtual Worlds Bartle has expanded to 8 types by adding a third aspect (z-axes), implicit/explicit motivation. The type included Griefer, Networker, Politician, Friend, Opportunist, Scientist, Planner and Hacker. So, to simply put it each of the 4 types mentioned before got an implicit and explicit version to them. Griefers are implicit Killers, Politicians are explicit Killers, Scientists are explicit Explorers, Hackers are implicit Explorers, Networkers are explicit Socializers, Friends are implicit Socializers, Planners are explicit Achievers and finally Opportunists are implicit Achievers.

For out game Achiever or more specifically Planner type fits best for both the passive and active playstyles, since both playstyles require the individual to go out of their way to play that certain way. It can also be argued that Killers are more fitting to KILL enemies but due to enemies being AI and by extend being aspects of the game rather than actual adversaries, its more fitting for Achiever to defeat them. Moreover, Killers are said to be more leaning in player than game world aspect and since our game doesn’t contain any Player vs Player gameplay it simply seems like an ill fit.

Another small attribute that we wanted to add to the game is a number of objectives that will appear on top left of the screen, giving the player false instructions. For example, at the beginning of the game the player character will spawn in a room with objective to ‘open the door with a key’ but in reality, there is no key and the player is meant to just interact with the door to open it so to simply put they need to disobey the directions that the game provides. The reason for that function is partially due to see how the player will behave when they are given instructions that were clearly wrong and are meant to mislead them, would they continue to follow them out of instinct, still follow them but by doing the opposite of what is asked or disregard them all together and use their own judgement.

Interestingly enough in a publication called Principles of Social Psychology by Charles Stangor covered an experiment on Obedience, Power, and Leadership. For it they got a participant and an actor to play the roles of learner and teacher, the random draw was rigged to that the actor always could be the learner in that situation. After that the teacher together with the experiment conductor was place in a separate room from the learner so that they could not see them, and they need to read out an assortment of word associations (for example ‘blue sofa’). If the learner got them wrong, the teacher needed to administer a shock to them, increasing the volage with each consequent mistake. In actually the learner was not actually shocked but a prerecord message of their reaction still played, to see how the teacher will react.

Before the study was conducted hower the reasearcher explained the experiment to three groups of individuals (college students, middle-class adults, and psychiatrists) and asked how likely would it be for people to shock the student at max setting (450 volts) and the results were rather optimistic (1% or 2%). The results on the other hand were quite shocking. Even though the result varries after the innical shock done, 65% of the participants continued administering the punishment under the persistent preasure of the experiment conductor.

Of course the experimen conductor replicated the experiment in a vaiety of other situation, and one thing of note is that “in replications of the study in which the experimenter’s authority was decreased, obedience also declined.” (Jhangiani and Tarry, 2014).

This experiment show just how presense of a figure of autority can increase obedince, which would be interesting to see viewd from a perspective of the game since, its autority is often challenge (searching for bugs, and attempting to clip though levels)or viewed as a mear guideline.

References

- Bartle, R., 1996. Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDS. ] Available at: <http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm>[Accessed 15 May 2021].

- Bartle, R., n.d. The 3D player types graph. [image] Available at: <https://sites.google.com/site/psychotropolis/articles/virtual-worlds-why-people-play> [Accessed 17 May 2021].

- Clasen, M., Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, J. and Johnson, J., 2020. Horror, personality, and threat simulation: A survey on the psychology of scary media. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 14(3), pp.213-230.

- Devereux, G., 1949. A Note on Nyctophobia and Peripheral Vision. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 13(3).

- Devolver Digital, 2012. [image] Available at: <https://store.steampowered.com/app/219150/Hotline_Miami/> [Accessed 15 May 2021].

- Devolver Digital, 2016. [image] Available at: <https://store.steampowered.com/app/311690/Enter_the_Gungeon/> [Accessed 15 May 2021].

- Jhangiani, R. and Tarry, H. ed., 2014. Principles of Social Psychology. 1st ed. BCcampus Open Education.

- Stewart, B., 2014. Personality And Play Styles: A Unified Model. [Blog] gamasutra, Available at: <https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6474/personality_and_play_styles_a_.php?print=1> [Accessed 17 May 2021].

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junker-town · 4 years ago

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Super Bowl squares results, template, how to play online, and more

This standard, blank Super Bowl squares image has Kansas City along the top row and Tampa Bay along the left-most column. | PrintYourBracket.com

Why not try and make a little money while watching the Bucs and Chiefs battle in Super Bowl 55?

The 2021 Super Bowl matchup is between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Chiefs are making their fourth appearance, having lost in the first Super Bowl and then winning in Super Bowls 4 and 54. The Bucs are 1-0 in Super Bowls entering this year’s game, defeating the Raiders in 2003’s Super Bowl 37. With Super Bowl 55 taking place in Raymond James Stadium, the Bucs are the first Super Bowl team to play in their home stadium.

If what’s happening on the field isn’t quite enough to draw your attention, putting some money down on the action could make things a bit more interesting. Setting up a Super Bowl squares game is one way to stay involved in the matchup and may help keep the interest up for friends and/or guests who might not be as into football as the rest of us.

Chiefs vs. Buccaneers Super Bowl squares results

First Quarter

The Bucs lead the Chiefs, 7-3, after one quarter of play. Find that square that matches up with the the “7” on the Bucs’ side and the “3” on the Chiefs’ side.

Here’s a quick and simple way to play squares.

1. Create betting grid

This part is pretty simple. You just need a 10-by-10 grid with 100 squares to work with. You can either draw this out on a piece of paper, or use an online template.

Here’s an example of what your grid could look like, thanks to PrintYourBrackets.com:

PrintYourBracket.com

2. Find people to play

Most people will be watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, so why not make a little coin while you’re at it? There are a few options to get people involved:

1) If you’re hosting a Super Bowl party, you can pass the grid around or set it up as an activity as guests enter. Guests who want to play can fill out as many squares as they want — typically for $1 per square. (You can do this ahead of the big game too, if you’re not watching with a group, and have the grid filled out ahead of time.)

2) If you’re hosting a strictly online game, you can use sites like SuperBowlSquares.org to help coordinate and organize players and bets.

Once the grid is full, the real fun part of the game begins.

3. Draw or assign numbers

Either by drawing numbers from a hat or using a random number generator, assign digits 0-9 (in the order they are drawn/generated) to the top row and left column of the grid. This makes each square an intersection of the two numbers — and will be what determines the payout for players.

4. Figuring out the winners

Typically, winnings for Super Bowl squares are determined at the end of each quarter, based on the final digit of each team’s score. For exampled, if the Bucs lead 14-10 at the end of the first quarter, the Super Bowl square player whose square intersects with “4” and “0” would win a share of the pot.

There are many different ways to play Super Bowl squares and a host of different rules you can enact. (Some people do only one big payout at the final whistle, instead of each quarter, etc...). There’s no limit to the number of ways to split the pot, so get creative and have fun — and hopefully, make a little bit of money.

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codingforcreativepractices · 5 years ago

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Week 9 - Assignment Progress

Links and info on chosen issues...

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/08/02/number-of-refugees-to-europe-surges-to-record-1-3-million-in-2015/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/233150241500300301

https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/article/view/274

https://www.unrefugees.org/news/syria-refugee-crisis-explained/

https://www.unhcr.org/syria-emergency.html

The Syrian refugee crisis is the result of a March 2011 violent government crackdown on public demonstrations in support of a group of teenagers who were arrested for anti-government graffiti in the southern town of Daraa. As violence increased, families began to flee. Within two months, the first refugee camps opened in Turkey – by March 2013, more than 1 million people had fled Syria. Today, 12 million Syrians are displaced from their homes and more than a million Syrian children have been born in exile.

Finding the data...

I have decided that the data that I am going to use is going to be the number of people that are exiting Syria and where they are going (distance) depending on what types of statistics I can find...

https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unhcr-global-trends-forced-displacement-in-2019-data

Whilst searching for some relevant data found the site above which links to a 2019 data of the displaced people of Syria and where they relocated and has a lot of other data that I will have to sort through. But this seems like a very promising set of data.

From the data I gathered all the information that I would need from the table. The distances although were not in the table which means that I had to manually find the distance from Syria to each of the individual countries.

Even though this is a very promising start to my project I noticed one issue off the bat and that was the numbers themselves. Because there is 3.6 million people that went to Turkey and 14 people that went to Algeria this posed an issue. Firstly because a number like 3.6 million is very difficult for processing to deal with, but usually we would simply divide to reduce them to a number that we are able to handle much easier. The issue with that is that the smaller numbers like the 14 that went to Algeria would become infinitely small.

This means that I have a choice...

- I could either priorities the data and make it so I use the top 10 results or how ever many I want to use.

- Use a technique that was mentioned by Tim called Mapping that can change the original number range and you can set it at your personal number range.

- Or change the data that I am using and focus on a different area.

Putting the numbers into Processing...

Although, I haven’t set on how I am going to manipulate the data so it will work in a way that is visually appealing to the audience, I still want to make sure I have the basics of the code down. This way no matter the data I use I will still be on the right track.

Table dataSheet;

void setup() { size (600,600); //fullScreen(); dataSheet = loadTable("numberStats.csv","header"); //println (dataSheet.getRowCount()); println (dataSheet.getInt(3,0));

for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { strokeWeight (3); stroke (0); fill(255,0,0); ellipse(width/2, height/2, dataSheet.getInt(i,0)/20, dataSheet.getInt(i,0)/20);

} //ellipse(50,50,50,50); }

void draw() {

}

The code shown above is the code I used to creates that output and although I do understand this output is not successful at all at representing my chosen data set it is still a good indicator that I am using my code correctly.

Using the Top 10...

Table dataSheet;

void setup() { size (2000,950); dataSheet = loadTable("toptendataset.csv","header"); println (dataSheet.getRowCount()); println (dataSheet.getInt(0,3));

for(int i=0; i<10; i++) { ellipse(width/2, height/2, dataSheet.getInt(i,3), dataSheet.getInt(i,3));

}

void draw() { }

The circles above were displaced because the sizing of the canvas was incorrect so to change to the picture below I simply changed the size (2000,950); to fullScreen();

Playing with sizing...

Went back into the data sheet and times the data by 2 to create what is shown below.

Now this is too big

Playing with layout...

I then inserted the data of the distance between the countries into the x-position of the ellipse function.

Table dataSheet;

void setup() { fullScreen(); dataSheet = loadTable("toptendataset.csv","header"); println (dataSheet.getRowCount()); println (dataSheet.getInt(0,4));

for(int i=0; i<10; i++) { ellipse((dataSheet.getInt(i,2)/3)+100, height/2, dataSheet.getInt(i,4), dataSheet.getInt(i,4));

}

void draw() { }

This is the code from the last attempt of the positioning.

Attempting to use the map function on the data...

After some research into mapping

https://processing.org/reference/map_.html

map(value, start1, stop1, start2, stop2)

Table dataSheet;

void setup() { fullScreen(); dataSheet = loadTable("toptendataset.csv","header"); println (dataSheet.getRowCount()); println (dataSheet.getInt(0,4));

for(int i=0; i<10; i++) { float value = dataSheet.getInt(i,2); float m = map(value, 85, 3263 , 30, width-30); ellipse(m, 200, 10, 10); ellipse((dataSheet.getInt(i,2)/3)+140, height/2, dataSheet.getInt(i,4), dataSheet.getInt(i,4));

}

Inserting the m value into the ellipses line of code I did this first just to assess if I had copied the code correctly.

I then applied it to the data ellipse themselves and it worked well which is why in the next image I just adjusted the starting point of the new range so all of the circles were visible.

Table dataSheet;

void setup() { fullScreen(); dataSheet = loadTable("toptendataset.csv","header"); println (dataSheet.getRowCount()); println (dataSheet.getInt(0,4));

for(int i=0; i<10; i++) { float value = dataSheet.getInt(i,2); float m = map(value, 85, 3263 , 150, width-30); //ellipse(m, 200, 10, 10); //ellipse((dataSheet.getInt(i,2)/3)+140, height/2, dataSheet.getInt(i,4), dataSheet.getInt(i,4)); ellipse(m, height/2, dataSheet.getInt(i,4), dataSheet.getInt(i,4));

}

void draw() { }

The transition from the image above to the image below was the change in the range that I chose to

Decided to add random colouring mainly for the purpose of myself being able to differentiate between the circles.

Table dataSheet;

void setup() { fullScreen(); dataSheet = loadTable("toptendataset.csv","header"); println (dataSheet.getRowCount()); println (dataSheet.getInt(0,4));

for(int i=0; i<10; i++) { float value1 = dataSheet.getInt(i,2); float m = map(value1, 85, 3263 , 170, width-80); float value2 = dataSheet.getInt(i,4); float n = map(value2, 14, 792.75 , 100, 800); //ellipse(m, 200, 10, 10); //ellipse(n, 200, 10, 10); //ellipse((dataSheet.getInt(i,2)/3)+140, height/2, dataSheet.getInt(i,4), dataSheet.getInt(i,4)); //ellipse(m, height/2, dataSheet.getInt(i,4), dataSheet.getInt(i,4)); fill(100,200,random(255)); ellipse(m, height/2, n, n);

}

void draw() { }

Any other options of data sets...

I feel as though my design is too simple so I am going to try and incorporate another data set or attempt to do something else with my current data set.

I have found some population statistics over the past 10 years in Syria and I think I am going to try and incorporate that into my code. The

I have become keen on the idea of using rectangles within my design.

Table dataSheet;

void setup() { fullScreen(); dataSheet = loadTable("toptendataset.csv","header"); println (dataSheet.getRowCount()); println (dataSheet.getInt(0,4));

for(int i=0; i<10; i++) { float value1 = dataSheet.getInt(i,2); float m = map(value1, 85, 3263 , 170, width-80); float value2 = dataSheet.getInt(i,4); float n = map(value2, 14, 792.75 , 100, 800);

//ellipse(m, 200, 10, 10); //ellipse(n, 200, 10, 10); //ellipse((dataSheet.getInt(i,2)/3)+140, height/2, dataSheet.getInt(i,4), dataSheet.getInt(i,4)); //ellipse(m, height/2, dataSheet.getInt(i,4), dataSheet.getInt(i,4)); fill(100,200,random(255),50); ellipse(m, height/2, n, n); rect((width/2)-dataSheet.getInt(i,5)*5,(height/2)-dataSheet.getInt(i,5)*5,dataSheet.getInt(i,5)*10,dataSheet.getInt(i,5)*10);

}

void draw() { }

After I did some research into the issue I have decided to focus on creating a patch to display my data this way it can be fixed to a backpack, t-shirt, blanket etc.

So I needed to find a way to present it that would. be effective as a badge and a more aesthetic way of displaying the data.

Back to the drawing board...

My attempts at trying to find an idea that would work using both the ellipses and rectangles.

Out of the designs that I had I became very fond of the last 3rd one as I feel it would provide an aesthetic patch whilst also displaying the data.

What this means for the code...

This means that I will need to isolate the turkey statistic, without removing it from the distance data.

It will also mean placing the rectangles in the centre of the circle and potentially using the

Intro to Digital Embroidery...

So I then went to the embroidery induction on 30th September, where we learnt how to use the digital embroidery machine using the inputs created from processing.

import processing.embroider.*; PEmbroiderGraphics E;

void setup() { size (600,600); E = new PEmbroiderGraphics(this, width, height);

String outputFilePath = sketchPath("PEmbroider_test.dst"); E.setPath(outputFilePath);

E.beginDraw();

E.stroke(0,0,0); E.strokeWeight(10); E.strokeSpacing(2);

E.fill(0,0,0); E.hatchMode(E.SATIN); E.rect(100,100,300,300);

E.textSize(2); E.textAlign(CENTER); E.textFont(PEmbroiderFont.DUPLEX); E.text("PEmbroider",250,250);

E.optimize(); E.endDraw();

E.visualize();

}

void draw() {

}

To make the file an embroidery file you basically need to add E. before each line that you want to apply to the embroidery. The code must always start with import processing.embroider.*; followed by PEmbroiderGraphics E; this is all defining that it is an embroidery document so processing can register it.

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michellekarenw · 5 years ago

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Week 11 Lecture

What’s next for Communication Design?

During this lecture session, Andy and Karen discussed about the future of communication design. Many examples were included in the discussion, such as creative technology which can be beneficial for society. They discussed about parametric design and also the idea of working with data to change design. Karen and Andy also shared the machines which they had make, Live Draw, Trumpet of the Swan and Library of Nonhuman books, which are inventive.

[Thoughts] I understand that design has been more digital-based nowadays and parametric design does help to give accuracy into a design. It is very exciting to see new innovative inventions being created in this modern society, with the benefit of advancing technology and artificial intelligence. However, I have quite a fear that AI can replace designers in the future since they may be considered to be more efficient and precise. Hopefully technology and new design systems will benefit designers, rather than replacing them, to create other-worldly creations.

Parametric Design

Parametric design adds dimensions and any other specific information needed for functionality and manufacturability. It supplies all the dimensions, tolerances, and detailed materials information critical to the design consistent. Parametric design lets you specify the key parameters of the project and make changes interactively, with the model updating automatically.

Inspirobot (https://inspirobot.me/)

“I am an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence.“ This website generates random posts which are ‘inspirational’.

This Person Does Not Exist (https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/)

The site is the creation of Philip Wang, who is a software engineer at Uber, and uses research by chip designer Nvidia to create a never-ending stream of fake portraits. It uses AI to generate fake visuals. The algorithm behind it is trained on a huge data set of real pictures, then incorporates a type of neural network known as a generative adversarial network (GAN) to create new examples.

first two images are from the lecture

image 3 http://www.parametricdesign.net/

image 4 and 5 generated from https://inspirobot.me/

image 6 generated from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Resources:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/parametric-design

https://inspirobot.me/

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/2/15/18226005/ai-generated-fake-people-portraits-thispersondoesnotexist-stylegan

#lecture #communicationdesign #parametricdesign

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gwarren-smith-blog · 6 years ago

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Digital design and time on device; why aesthetic experience helps us to understand the psychological impact of living in a digital culture - by Vanessa Bartlett

Stop the Algorithm (2017) Kneissl, S, Lackner, M. The Photographer’s Gallery.

In his customer engagement manual Hooked: How to build habit-forming products, behaviourist Nir Eyal describes the various triggers that interface designers deploy to render online environments more habit-forming. Icons placed on mobile home screens highlight unanswered messages and act as a constant reminder of digital loops awaiting closure. Red circles in the top left-hand corner of each icon count outstanding actions still to be taken—producing a subtle but continuous psychological itch. Meanwhile, social networking sites embed themselves at the centre of a user’s emotional life. Eyal suggests that Instagram exploits the quiet anxiety that occurs when users fear a special moment will be lost forever. This need to document and preserve is supported within the app by filters and visual icons that make the poorest quality images more attractive. Eyal suggests that ‘users who find a product that alleviates their pain will form strong, positive associations with the product over time… these bonds cement into a habit as users turn to your product when experiencing certain internal triggers’ [1]. Similar tendencies have also been observed by anthropologist Natasha Dow-Schüll in her studies of digitally enhanced machine gambling interfaces, where designers work with colour, light, animation, sound and space to create experiences that yield maximum gambling revenue by keeping players on device for as long as possible. Schüll describes the intention of one machine gambling company to create interfaces that function as a ‘personal theatre’ describing habit forming technology using aesthetic referents [2].

In a consumer driven society, digital engagements are constructed with sensory stimulation and consequential increases in ‘time on device’ at the core of their design. The psychological impact of prolonged screen-time divides psychologists and clinical researchers [3], as does the validity of emerging diagnostic terminology such as ‘internet addiction’ [4]. Rather than rehearsing the two sides of this argument again here, this short essay is concerned with probing the often overlooked role of aesthetics in the creation of digital habits, and, with the potential of art to illuminate the psychological, social and sensory dimensions of habit-forming digital technologies. My application of the term aesthetic is prompted in part by its deployment in user experience design, where it describes how visual pleasure can entice a user to engage with a digital interface for longer [5]. More importantly, I also want to think through digital aesthetics as a ‘sensory knowing of the world’ [6] that can shape experience in such a way that it generates reflection on the role of the digital in everyday life. This approach mirrors investigations by art theorists such as Anna Munster, who has argued that contemporary artistic practices present one of the most powerful ways to come to grips with networked culture [6]. Using case study artworks by YoHa and Steve Lambert among others, she argues that art can create ‘alternative social-political spaces in which knowledge can be generated collectively rather than merely (re)discovered and accumulated proprietarily’ [6]. In other words, aesthetic experience can prompt reflection on digital interfaces in a way that is critically and socially motivated. Crucially, Munster also shows how digital experiences involve affect, ‘moving dynamic qualities of experience’ that are different to pure emotion. Borrowing from psychologist Daniel Stern, she uses the term ‘vitality affects’ to describe a circulation of feeling that takes place within the tempo of daily living; ‘as we breath, fall asleep…wake up’ and engage in digital networks [6]. This subtle, continuous movement of affect can perhaps be thought of in relation to the barely perceptible discomforts that Eyal uses as motivators for action in his book. The feelings that Eyal’s design aesthetics seek to harvest are ‘below the perceptibility of consciousness’ and constitute ‘tiny stressors’ that manipulate without attracting too greater portion of our conscious attention; ‘feelings of boredom, loneliness, frustration, confusion and indecisiveness often instigate a slight pain or irritation and prompt an almost instantaneous and often mindless action to quell the negative sensation’ [1]. This digital affect becomes an ordinary part of our daily experience.

In a cultural moment where interface design toys with and drives latent emotions and affects, I argue that artists, designers and other aesthetic activists should be part of any effort that seeks to understand the psychological impacts of living in a digital culture. This is not to suggest that digital art and interface design should be considered as the same thing or that digital artists might be directly employed to re-design user interfaces. What I would like to suggest is that aesthetic experience produces opportunities for questioning and working through the ethical, experiential and psychological consequences of living in a digital world where emotions are cultivated for profit. From inside aesthetic encounters we can begin to fully comprehend the emotional complexity at work in the interplay between visual and sensory stimulus, affect and digital devices.

Artists’ responses to practices of digital manipulation can be observed in several recent exhibitions and artworks that have made links between affect, digital culture and interface design. The exhibition and research project Are We All Addicts Now? led by Katriona Beales was the first to explore and critique behavioural design devices such as those advocated by Eyal. Beales reflects her own experiences of internet use as being ‘trance-like’ and ‘seductive,’ producing sculptures and installations that recreate these ambiguous psychological states for the viewer. In the exhibition Hooked: When Want Becomes Need curated by Hannah Redler-Hawes for Science Gallery London, works by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Benjamin Grosser, Katriona Beales and Yole Quintero all worked with the slow creeping discomforts produced by contemporary interface design. Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Benjamin Grosser’s work Please Don’t Like This (2015) is a starkly designed web page with a throbbing red ‘like’ button at its centre. ‘LIKE THIS!’ the heading cajoles, while a ‘hit counter’ keeps track of the number of people who have already succumbed. Certainly, the work does not invite the viewer into a transformative, high emotion experience in the sense that we might associate with traditional aesthetic theories devised by Kant, for example. Instead, what is produced in the viewer is a much more mundane oscillation between temptation and indifference, an affect that niggles under the skin just enough for the viewer to act to reduce the discomfort before moving on to scratch the next psychological itch. Please Don’t Like This reflects the particular aesthetic work often associated with artists in a ‘post-digital’ moment; it draws attention to the visual tropes and affective indifferences of late capitalism with the intent of critiquing them. For curator Christiane Paul, a post-digital aesthetic is about highlighting ‘the embeddedness of the digital in the objects, images and structures we encounter on a daily basis and the way we understand ourselves in relation to them’ [7]. In encounters with this work, the viewer can perhaps sense more acutely the emotional mechanisms at play in day-to-day digital experience, as art becomes a device for drawing attention to digital affects that often remain hidden from awareness.

A more directly activist strategy is proposed by Stephanie Kneissl and Max Lackner’s artwork Stop the Algorithm (2017), which was recently exhibited as part of All I Know is What’s on the Internet curated by Katrina Sluis for The Photographer’s Gallery. The work is a response to the way that algorithms shape how people engage with information online. Data calculations made behind the scenes of social platforms increasingly determine what will be visible in user timelines. Multiple likes, comments and shares push ‘positive’ content to the top of a feed, while non sensationalist or critical content can disappear if it does not receive a flurry of interactions within the first ten minutes of posting. Taina Bucher has suggested this mechanism compels users who post regularly to obsessively ‘attend to their profiles in the hopes of not being ignored’ [8], creating anxiety that encourages habitual behaviour. Kneissl and Lackner’s work comprises of delicately crafted kinetic sculptures that scroll through Instagram, liking content at random and subverting the workings of that algorithm. The work highlights ‘infinite scroll,’ one of the techniques identified by Eyal as ‘interaction design’s answer to our penchant for endlessly searching for novelty’ [9]. Instagram’s feed is designed so that users scan information without ever reaching an ‘end’. As Kneissl and Lackner’s machines constantly push through content using this ‘infinite scroll’ facility, the viewer might reflect on ways that the design of online space facilitates a bottomless and futile quest to numb anxious affects.

As aesthetic forms continue to shape affective engagements with interfaces in the ways that I have demonstrated above, I argue that the role of aesthetic and arts-based knowledge will become increasingly important for understanding the psychological impact of living in a digital culture. My claim is motivated in part by a feeling that established clinical and sociological approaches continue to fall short in accounting for the cultural, technological and design mechanisms that shape contemporary psychological distress. While art is not a panacea, presented in ways that encourage broad engagement and reflection, it may help to foster increasing understanding of capitalism’s use of design and aesthetics to influence how we work, shop and build relationships in increasingly pervasive digital spaces.

This text documents thoughts in progress from a new book project by Vanessa Bartlett. The ideas contained within it grow out of the artist led research project Are We All Addicts Now? in collaboration with Katriona Beales, Fiona MacDonald and Henrietta Bowden-Jones.

1) Eyal N. Hooked. London: Penguin 2014.

2) Schüll ND. Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2012.

3) Henderson Daniel J. Scholars Concerns About Children’s Screen Time Action Network’s Letter to the American Psychological Association. osf.io. 2018.

4) Griffiths MD, Kuss DJ, Pontes HM. Internet addiction: A Brief Psychological Overview. In: Bartlett V, Bowden-Jones H, eds. Are We All Addicts Now? Digital Dependence. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2017. 57–65.

5) Interaction Design Foundation. What is Aesthetics? N.d. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/aesthetics (accessed 20 April 2019)

6) Munster A. An Aesthesia of Networks: Conjunctive Experience in Art and Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press 2013.

7) Paul C. A Companion to Digital Art. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell 2016.

8) Bucher T. The Algorithmic Imaginary: Exploring the Ordinary Affects of Facebook Algorithms. Information, Communication & Society 2016;20:30–44. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2016.1154086

9) Eyal N. Infinite Scroll: The Web’s Slot Machine. 2012. https://www.nirandfar.com/2012/08/the-webs-slot-machine.html (accessed 30 Nov 2018).

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Module 5 - Final Report

Introduction This research report will analyze the social media strategy of the non-profit organization Chai Lifeline. This organization is devoted to helping families who support a child with a deadly disease. Chai Lifeline relies on volunteers to deliver their message, especially when it comes to their social media platforms.

Currently, they have a website which has links to their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn. The audience Chai Lifeline targets families with children who suffer from a life-threatning or chronic illness from across Canada.

Thesis To exponentially improve their Chai Lifeline’s presence, they need to narrow their focus to deliver a quality strategy.

Initial Observations

See exhibit 1 for full notes on strengths and weaknesses

Literature Review and Main Themes

Positive Themes

1. Engagement – is viewed as one of the overarching themes that provided their social media presence legitimacy. On Chai Lifeline’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages, they post on a regular basis that provide their followers a sense of connection and expectation. Too many posts in a day and followers become annoyed, and too little loses follower’s attention.

2. Informative Content – Chai Lifeline delivers meaningful and actionable content to its followers. The right content can translate into a donation from a first-time website visitor.[i] It can convince someone who is on the edge of volunteering to join.

3. Visuals – What draws more clicks to any social media page is having the right images and info graphics. Graphics can summarize a paragraphs worth of content without distracting readers.[ii] This allows people to pick and choose what information they want to read.

Improvement Themes

1. Quality Over Quantity – Chai Lifeline is running too many social media platforms. In their situation, it is hurting them because if someone were to venture on these pages, they would see that they are not up to date, and this would reflect poorly on the organization as a whole.[iii]

2. Color Scheme and Profile Identity - Chai Lifeline currently has a different profile picture and color scheme across all platforms. A strong aesthetic shows attention to detail which adds to the legitimacy of the organization.[iv] Coca-Cola is a solid brand to try replicate when it comes to social media consistency and branding.[v]

3. Organization – This theme pertains to the organization of content on Chai Lifeline’s website. See exhibit 5 for a screenshot of their landing page. Specifically, the third screenshot is two disjointed blocks of text with abrasive color in-between a picture.

Methodology

Research focused on the how people reacted to the user experience of the different platforms. 10 random individuals at Queen’s University and a group member interviewed subjects from India were chosen to review each of the platforms and were asked questions on their initial observations. Questions were based on the positive and improvement themes found in the investigation to confirm or reject our beliefs before diving further into the research and why people were having these reactions.

Results

The results from our questionnaire have shown us that participants believe Chai Lifeline is consistent with their posting and the platforms are informative. Results indicate that the color scheme is disjointed and distracting on the website, as well as information is scattered and hard to follow. In addition, results show that participants do not believe a LinkedIn page is helping the organization in any meaningful way.

Domestic and International Results

Question 1: 8/10 participants answered a ‘4’ which indicate that posting on platforms are very consistent.

Question 2: 8/10 participants answered ‘4’ that they found the platforms very informative.

Question 3: 7/10 participants answered a ‘2’ level. This indicates they visit a platform between 2-3 times a week.

Question 4: 7/10 participants answered they enjoyed the media aspects on the platforms. Examples given were videos and pictures.

Question 5: 7/10 participants answered they did not understand the relevance of a LinkedIn page and its connection to Chai Lifeline.

Question 6: 8/10 participants answered the colour scheme in some way distracted them from the main point of the website.

Question 7: 9/10 participants mentioned in their answer they found the platforms very – somewhat informative. 6/10 participants stated in their answer they found the website disorganized.

It was evident after collecting the answers from the questionnaire that the answers aligned with our initial research. We have highlighted the questions worth analyzing:

Question 1: 11/12 participants answered a ‘4’ which indicate that posting on platforms are very consistent.

Question 2: 12/12 participants answered ‘4’ that they found the platforms very informative.

Question 3: 8/12 participants answered a ‘2’ level. This indicates they visit a platform between 2-3 times a week.

Question 4: 12/12 participants answered they enjoyed the media aspects on the platforms. Examples given were videos and pictures.

Question 5: 12/12 participants answered they did not understand the relevance of a LinkedIn page and its connection to Chai Lifeline.

Question 6: 9/12 participants answered the colour scheme in some way distracted them from the main point of the website.

Question 7: 8/12 participants mentioned in their answer they found the platforms very – somewhat informative. 11/12 participants stated in their answer they found the website disorganized.

Discussion

Since the survey confirmed our hypothesis, we wanted to understand the psychological reasons and how fixing these elements could improve their presence. To create a better social media presence we realized we have these questions left to answer for Chai Lifeline:

What purposes to LinkedIn and Pinterest serve?

What color scheme best suits their brand?

How could they layout their website more effectively?

Analysis

1. LinkedIn Purpose: A LinkedIn page helps members find your business, your brand, and job opportunities within your company. Company pages are also useful to legitimize the brand.

- As a non-profit organization, a LinkedIn profile is not necessary. It is more of a professional networking site that people use to find jobs.

Pinterest Purpose: Pinterest is a platform that allows people to find inspiration and ideas for their interests and hobbies.

- A Pinterest profile for a non-profit does not add that much value. It can help increase engagement but not crucial to an organization

2. Results showed that the colour scheme is disjointed and distracting. “Your choice of website colours is the most important decision you will make in designing and building your website, apart from your words and content of course” [vi].There are psychological meanings of choices of colour, as well as different cultures interpret colour in various ways. It is crucial to keep this in mind as different colours appeal to different markets.

Their current color palette

3. Results demonstrate that the information on the website is scattered and difficult to follow. It is important to remember that a website should be audience focused, concise, intuitive, interconnected and accessible.[vii] A website should be easy to understand, aesthetically pleasing and captivating. Landing pages are meant to let you hold your prospective volunteers or sponsors. They are your lead generation vehicle that acts as a digital salesman. Internet browsers land on a page from an ad, search result, social media post, or video.

Recommendations

1. Eliminate LinkedIn and Pinterest - This will allow their volunteers to have more time to focus on the platforms that matter such as the Website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.[viii]

2. Narrow the Color Scheme - This will allow audience members to understand Chai Lifeline’s message clearly and draw a connection to the organization.[ix] It recommended to use green as it represents balance, and grey is simple.[x]

Suggested Color Scheme:

3. Improve the Website’s Home Page - Chai Lifeline must eliminate some information on their main page, however, eventually it will reduce clutter and direct the audience to the main goal.[xi] This can be accomplished by keeping the web page concise and making sure the paragraphs are short. As well, make sure the website is audience focused and that the website is answering the audiences’ questions and needs.[xii]

Conclusion

In conclusion, our results have highlighted and supported our initial research. We believe that Chai Lifeline has enormous potential to take their social media presence to a new level. If they implement these simple recommendations, we believe they will increase engagement and awareness.

Bibliography

[i] Kucheriavy, Andrew. "Why Content Is the Most Important Thing on Your Website." Intechnic. Accessed March 2019. https://www.intechnic.com/blog/why-content-is-the-most-important-thing-on-your-website/.

[ii] Hausman, Angela. "The Importance of Using Visual Content in Social Media Marketing." Business 2 Community. December 27, 2017. https://www.business2community.com/social-media/importance-using-visual-content-social-media-marketing-01980627.

[iii] Wolfe, Mike. "Why Quality Over Quantity Is Key in Social Media." SmartBug Media. June 16, 2017. https://www.smartbugmedia.com/blog/why-quality-over-quantity-is-key-in-social-media.

[iv] Chichioco, Aaron, Chintan Doshi, Erik Qualman… "The Role of Color Theory in Digital Marketing and Social Media." Socialnomics. November 13, 2018. https://socialnomics.net/2018/10/27/the-role-of-color-theory-in-digital-marketing-and-social-media/.

[v] Wong, Desmond. "8 Businesses That Nail Social Media Brand Consistency." HubSpot Blog. https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/34231/8-businesses-that-nail-social-media-brand-consistency.aspx.

[vi] "Website Colors." Empowered By Color. https://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/website-colors.html.

[vii] Schmitz, Jon. "How to Organize Website Content: 5 Basics You Need to Know." Cursive Content How to Organize Website Content 5 Basics You Need to Know Comments. http://cursivecontent.com/how-to-organize-website-content-5-basics-you-need-to-know/.

[viii] Sun, Leo. "The Importance of Quality Over Quantity." BusinessDictionary.com. http://www.businessdictionary.com/article/581/the-importance-of-quality-over-quantity/.

[ix] "Website Colors." Empowered By Color. Accessed April 02, 2019. https://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/website-colors.html.

[x] Pack, Poppie. "Build Your Brand: 20 Unique Color Combinations to Inspire You – Canva." Learn. February 01, 2019. https://www.canva.com/learn/brand-color-palette/.

[xi] "The Best Way To Organize Content For Your Website." Executionists. January 28, 2019. https://www.executionists.com/organize-website-content-redesign/.

[xii] Schmitz, Jon. "How to Organize Website Content: 5 Basics You Need to Know." Cursive Content How to Organize Website Content 5 Basics You Need to Know Comments. http://cursivecontent.com/how-to-organize-website-content-5-basics-you-need-to-know/.

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Date: 2019-08-06 15:09:39

Digital era makes easy how to create vision boards. You can find lots of resources to build an amazing dream board with all your desires on it.

Making vision boards are going to help you not only in manifesting what you want, but to think about what you reaaly want.

I love making digital vision boards online and later keeping them in my desktiop, so I can get inspiration over and over again.

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Main Reasons to create vision boards

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Developing a vision board pressures you to make the time to rest as well as REALLY consider what it is you desire from life.

I make certain you think of the important things you want a great deal, but do you really concentrate on them?

Do you record them anywhere beyond your head?

A vision board forces you to go past casual reasoning as well as emphasis on your objectives and goals.

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Our lives are so busy and also overflowing. We wake up, we function, and we have our duties.

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Does this seem like you?

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Leave your excessively programmed brain and allow your innovative juices flow.

Leave your funk. Toss some randomness with each other. Leave your bubble.

You obtain the photo.

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If you get discharged up and also passionate concerning something, it will spur you right into action.

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How to create vision boards online for free

Creating a vision board online is straightforward and also very easy.

The vision board online variation is for those who don’t the have time, persistence or power to collect products and placed a board together.

Nevertheless, if you are searching for the physical method to producing a dream board, then reviewed how to make vision boards that work.

Given that a vision board is an aesthetic means to draw in points that you desire in life to YOU … after that it needs to be in an area that you see often.

Now in this era, individuals are always on their electronics, so a computer system or smart phone is a perfect area to have an aesthetic depiction of the things you wish to materialize in life.

Create a vision boards that really represents you

When creating your vision board you will intend to discover pictures, and also words that stand for the life you want to live.

You are possibly wondering where can I discover photos to contribute to my on-line vision board. I obtain it.

It’s not like you can reduce things out a publication as well as add it to your board..

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These sites are a terrific begin when downloading pictures that influence you.

It’s finest to look brief and simple terms to see what appears like a business owner, work from home, working mother, coastline, computer work, momboss, analysis, cash, and so on.

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Open the app Select the (+) symbol Faucet Dimensions Size under the word pick a dimension (I suggest something long like 1800 x 2400 pixels) To include Texts, Images from your Phone, Graphic or a Theme use the (+) in the lower edge.

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Layer on the text by tapping (+) Text and also typing in your favored motivational phrase or words.

Conserve your vision board to your phone by clicking the upload icon in the top edge.

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Below are actions to produce a vision board on a Canva Desktop computer. The vision board can then be contributed to your phone, computer system desktop computer wallpaper or shared on social media sites.

This will be a little simpler at the very least I believe so due to the fact that of it a lot bigger, as well as you have more control.

As the same with any vision board, you intend to add your objectives, your vision, and also the way you picture your life within a duration. So it can be a year, 3 years or ultimate dream board.

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Step 1 – Begin your design

Most likely to Canva as well as select the United States Letter Dimension (or a big measurements (like 1800 x 2400 pixels) option.

If you are wanting to publish it and after that you will certainly want a size that can print on paper. Or just swipe my 3 desktop design templates alternatives.

Step 2 Establish your grid

Once you have the dimensions/layout, you desire then make a grid.

To do that you would certainly click the element tab as well as after that most likely to grids. Next off, click all to view various means your photos can be laid out.

Step 3 – Add your images

You can add photos from these complimentary images sites to your grid by submitting them using the upload switch or utilize the images currently on Canva by selecting element > images.

Step 4 – Produce your vision board online

Are you excited? Currently you can include your pictures, words, and touches of you to the board. Layer the text, transform the size or colors to fit your requirements. It’s like a state of mind board for your life!

Currently all you require to do is include your well made and inspirational vision board to your computer desktop computer, laptop computer or phone lock display. That means you can be motivated, visualize and also bring your goals to truth quicker!

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cyberchord · 5 years ago

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How SEO Improve Your Brand Web Accessibility

Openness of a site is basic for any business. Consumer loyalty likewise assumes a vital job in the prosperity of business and a client will possibly get its fulfillment in the event that he can get to the site easily. Various factors and terms are utilized by various associations to improve the availability of their site. Indeed, even a few organizations designate a lot of specialists to build destinations openness. This gathering of specialists has explicit information in their separate fields to improve the openness of the individual site.

Aside from this, this particular information incorporates both commonsense and hypothetical information which is fundamental for business. This information with the blend of current systems encourages business and association to achieve a specific degree of web openness which is required for any business association. Numerous specialized and non-specialized data sources likewise assume critical jobs to make a site simple to get to.

Presently the inquiry is the reason a site should be available? What's more, the appropriate response is the equivalent 'for a superior client base'. Various individuals will visit your site and search for specific things yet your availability will choose whether that individual will be your customer or not? Openness of your site will be your initial introduction of the client brain and key factor for your client base.

There are various components and procedures that draw in important client base for your site and cause them to request your administration. A portion of the components basic for having a decent openness are-

Plan

Prior to perusing the substance, administrations or anything on your site any guest will search for plan in the greeting page. It is evident to state that if your point of arrival is alluring and vivid, guests are going to surf further. In the event that if the client thought that it was exhausting or unessential the client will consequently search for different contenders. So it is extremely fundamental for any business association to ensure that their structures are basic yet alluring to be comprehended by a faltering individual. It will legitimately upgrade the client experience of your site.

1. Title Tag

At whatever point an individual is going to scan for your administrations or item Google will most likely prescribe a portion of the basic looked through alternatives. Title label alludes to the title noticeable on the program and on your internet searcher. Thus it is significant for any association. On the off chance that your title tag isn't straightforward and justifiable it will legitimately influence clients and clients won't invest that much energy in your site and it will likewise influence your site adversely.

2. Content

An individual is never going to settle on your administrations until that individual comprehends your administrations. Substance of a site is as significant as structure on the site. Nobody is keen on perusing long old sections, so it is fundamental for a site to deal with their substance such that each individual visiting their site is keen on their site. To get this going substance ought to be partitioned into little passages to improve the coherence of the site. A decent perusing score implies that more individuals will have the option to peruse your site effectively and comprehend it no problem at all.

3. Header

Header labels essentially characterize the request through positioning of a site. It tends to be identified with various passages as per administrations referenced on various pages. Header labels are expressed in six unique levels from H1 to H6. It is extremely fundamental to put every one of these labels as indicated by the site, since one wrong header tag can influence the introduction of the entire site. This is the reason various associations and offices choose master website specialists to keep up and make a site.

4. Alt Text

Picture Alt-Tag

Alt content alludes to the content which is utilized as particular in pictures. Alt content assists with giving literary options in contrast to the visual pictures accessible on the site. Various associations commit errors by contrasting alt content with subtitle. A subtitle is referenced beneath the image yet alt content isn't referenced underneath the image. It is a back-end interface which isn't even unmistakable to the client. Be that as it may, regardless it is basic for sites since it causes distinctive web indexes to discover important outcomes as per the pursuit of a specific individual.

5. Grapple Text

Interactive content on any site of any association is a result of the grapple content. There are various recipes and content that are connected with the content to make it interactive and interlink with different pages of the site. Grapple writings are equivalent to header content and it is utilized to associate various pages pertinently. An all around oversaw and introduced content empowers various clients to explore effectively on site. It is additionally basic for a site as it improves the client experience.

6. Video Context

Much the same as pictures and substance video content additionally assumes a critical job in making a site. Visuals are likewise a significant piece of sites as they help clients and customers to picture your site and make a superior part for the client. Video setting ought not be that much when contrasted with ordinary content or amount yet it holds a particular grasp in making a superior and easy to use site.

7. Different Components

We generally continue thinking about the reality regarding the key parts of the site, yet there are other numerous random factors that are fundamental for any business. These various factors together majorly affect the site openness. Factors, for example, speed and CTA are fundamental on the grounds that these variables additionally make sites progressively available for a client.

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So these are various segments that make sites progressively open and co-usable, however as we talked about it's anything but some tea for everybody so you need a group of specialists who can assist you with managing every one of these inquiries. Discussing specialists there is one master that comes into mind which is digital harmony innovations. In the event that in the event that you need any assistance with respect to your web availability contact digital harmony (best advanced showcasing office in Chandigarh)

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marcelinomathias-blog · 7 years ago

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