Project 3

I ended up having soe trouble with the printing. as it turns out you cant print on thick card without paying a large amount which was the oposite of what I wanted so I had it printed on a poster materiel instead. another problem was locating a place where you can buy dice. the wharehouse didnt sell them and nor did whitcouls. So I bought a pack of 27 dice for the ridiculas price of $15 only to find that the box they came in was a better die as it was much larger and less likely to get lost. So after my hunting and gathering I had my project to present in the atrium which I did. Here are some photos of it in the atrium

Project 3

Ok so I designed the game board. I chose a bright red, white and black as its pretty standard for old school board games and treated the objects on the board with shadows and embossed them to make them pop.

And thus the game of IF was born.

Project 3

It didnt take me long to devise the mechanics of the game  mainly because, well it is a boardgame. you roll a die and when you come to an IF circle, you draw a card and roll again. if the number you rolled makes the IF statement on the card true then you take the true path, else you take the false path. simple enough. after devising the mechanics all I had to do was make the board and the cards. which I did

Project 3 chosen Idea

My tjhird Idea and the idea I chose was to make a boardgame, something fun, colourful and interactive to get the idea across to those simple minded people who dont take coding. I chose to make it a basic chance based game with parts where the If statements would be affected by the roll of a die.

Project 3 Interim presentation

As much fun as coding is (sarcasm) I was quite glad that we didnt have to use code at all in this project.
For the interim presentation I had three ideas to choose from. Two for if/else, one for loop. For my loop idea it was going to be a video made of pictures I had drawn and put together so it was a never ending clip much  like a zoomquilt clip I saw once http://www.zoomquilt.org/. Its pretty cool. My 1st idea for my if/else metaphor was a poster for a tax return type thing  so it would have things like if you earn more than 50k a year and you have three kids and however much debt you fit into class M. however upon some research I discovered that no one cared about looking at tax forms I chose not to use this idea.

Project 3

After forgetting about my blog up until 3 oclock today I have decided to post a few things.
Ill start from the beginning. With this project I chose the term I best understand, if/else. Its easily understandable and it lends itself to many many metaphors. At the first lecture we had for this project when we were told what the project was I instantly thought if/else and something interactive rather than just a poster or a video. other then that I didnt think about the project until 3 days before the interim presentation

Project 2. post 7

This is my final submission, the Glockenball 2.0 http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=27938.
Its a slightly tweaked version of my last one. However I have improved some of the things that werent quite right with it. It now stops playing when you close the app down instead of playing along in java as it did before. I also added a high pass filter and a notch filter to reduce the annoying clicks that kept happening. So there you are, my fancy Glokenball 2.0