Saturday, 10 November 2012

Mozilla Fest - day 1 - Zeega, Game Verbs, ParticleQuest (10 Nov 2012)

Mozilla Fest
Saturday



ZEEGA














ZEEGA
HTML5
Storytelling on the Web

http://alpha.zeega.org/register

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npr api

allow people to upload photos to flickr

what is a website based around storytelling look like?
- based around maps
- other ways to organise places and stories

'Remake the Internet!'

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Dear Andrew,

Welcome to Zeega!

The Internet is a wild place. We like that. Too often, though, it’s overwhelming. And full of too many choices. Little by little, we want to help remake the Internet. To make it a more beautiful place. To make the web’s wilds accessible to anyone for new forms of creative expression. Zeega is a community of makers passionate about creating immersive experiences that combine original content with media from across the web.

We’re busy processing your invite right now. You can expect a login soon!

- The Zeega Crew

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soundcloud

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http://alpha.zeega.org/editor/2856

Link to Project page
http://alpha.zeega.org/56436

Embed code;
<iframe src="http://alpha.zeega.org/56436/embed" width="100%" height="100%" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>

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Project: Geodesic Homes or No Direction Home
1.Video starting with planet, with text fading in over the top
2.Still images, then
3.Displays black and white documentary film,
4.Shows a slide just showing text, with arrow navigation on each side.
reading at your own speed
5.Video played

Interaction and Linear sequences are interweaved.

Can you display data from the web, with video - not built in yet

Concept of layers: Video layers, Text layers, Link layers, later on Twitter layers, etc..

Meograph
Popcorn Maker
Zeega

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'Austin Music Map'

'Planet Takeout' - Library

Media Library
http://alpha.zeega.org/library
- organise, tag, grouping.
Collections of audio, video, etc.
Calling in media via hashtags - ie.mozfest

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Bookmarklet for bringing in media

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Images can be added dynamically by adding hashtags, and sourcing uploads from Twitter.

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Zeega Web apps - with Zeega Player
Custom Navigation items

Feed from Flickr / Youtube

Collections Viewer - showing content gallery
- seeded content

Built on Underscore and Backbone
Can add a JS file that has its own API, depends on Jquery

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Load zeega.css file
Load js file
Script that listens to a Zeega ready event
JSON file with data on each layer

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Issues around web-sourced content
Creative Commons
Attribution
Aggregator contacting Content Creator for permission
Only include 'Public' content

Talk to Lawyers

Issues around deleted or relocated addresses for content


Planet Takeout Participate

On Twitter
Project called Trees
Make a new hashtag called Trees
Link and add path into Zeega

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Instagram - Photo-sharing

Zeega Boilerplate

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Build the webpage around the player
navigational elements that speak to the player

Custom Parser

Zeega:
Visual layers - each is considered a plugin

ie.Image layer, with js, css file
Controls defined for each layer
Instructions on how it is to be displayed

Consistency of factory controls ie arrows VS expecting the users to build their own arrows

Popcorn framework is built around timeline
Zeega is built around video

Going for a Paid model?
Currently as open source, but looking for a monetisation model that is similar to Wordpress

Vimeo does not have adverts, Youtue can include adverts

Playing from timecodes of videos, start time, end time...
Hosting video from Youtube VS Downloading video to host

7 people in Zeega Team, based in Cambridge, MA

Hypermedia Authoring Platforms/

'Web Publishing Storytelling Platform'

Prezi - 'Cloud-based presentation software'
StoryPlanet - ''Visual stories, Community collaboration, developer platform" - https://www.storyplanet.com/about
Meograph - '4D Publishing Platform'
Klynt - flash based - 'Interactive editing and publishing application dedicated to creative storytellers'
3WDoc - 'authoring web tool for creating and broadcasting stories across platforms'

interactivedocumenary

idocs.org

Google Group - Zeega
info@zeega.org

Night Foundation Grant

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Paper-prototype Social Responsive Games with Verbs

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Physics game - ParticleQuest
https://github.com/jessykate/ParticleQuest/issues

(Project set by CERN to create a game)















8 abilities

anti-particles
particles
photons

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abilities - collect items

gradual improvement - get faster - XP system, like Zelda

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Sigma bar

Scientist

Find the Higgs Boson

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reduce meetup announcements

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Work on Portfolio

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What makes a game?
analysis

Browser Quest
http://browserquest.mozilla.org/

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https://github.com/jessykate/ParticleQuest/issues

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Thimble - Learn
https://thimble.webmaker.org/p/flt3/edit

Popcorn - Make an interactive video
https://popcorn.webmaker.org/

Xray-Goggles
https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools/x-ray-goggles/

Webmaker


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