About Me

(Update) After getting some feedback. I have decided to elaborate my days and add some more information about what happened to me and gameplay for that day. Hello everyone! another exciting morning in the life of me! So I finally decided to tell a story. Games are a part of my life. I want to give a sort of narration of what it was like for me to die in Don't Starve. I've decided to catalog my first 10 death experiences in this game. 7 years ago I started to play a game called Don't Starve. I have gone on some details about this game on other blogs. Basically, it is a survival game where you try to stay alive as long as you can. 1st Death by Darkness: Day 1. My character awakes in a daze. Everything is drawn as if, Tim Burton himself did the artwork! I see so many objects and nature all around me. I see trees, berry bushes, twigs, grass, rocks. I see animals too! I see rabbits in the field. I see cows walking around grazing. This game is pretty cool you get to craft t

Quite honestly my favorite way to brainstorm is to use an Idea File. I feel like, its the best way to brainstorm because my ideas are always changing and flowing out of me. When I am brainstorming I feel like no format will help bring out these ideas better. Below are a few examples of my creativity. I love to listen to music and every now and again I sometimes think wouldn't a song sound better with lyrics mixed and matched with better songs? I was listening to Metallica's version of Misfits Song called Last Caress (the lyrics are explicit so Ill let you look it up yourself). I was thinking what it would be like to sing some lyrics off one of my favorite Iron Maiden songs, "Fear Of The Dark" to replace some lyrics on the Last Caress? I started singing the lyric "Fear of the dark" and I felt like it worked pretty well. This was my first idea and it reminded me brainstorming and mixing and matching could help me be more creative when wri

Hello Everyone! Another week and another Microblog just for you! This week I have been thinking what would it be like to have my own podcast? What should I podcast about? Two very good questions and I feel like I have some good answers to that. Three ideas that come to mind are fictional stories, a journal of myself and things that I find interesting to talk about, plus my opinions. I feel for me, my creative process is always changing, but that makes it a wonderful thing. At this moment I feel it is best to have a theme and or a structure to the things I podcast about. Honestly, I would just have fun with it and see what I would learn from the experience. If I was podcasting a digital story. I would talk about a fantasy story that's kinda like D&D style. I would narrate the characters to engage more with my followers. If I did a  podcast about my life. I would talk about my work, problems and my health issues. I find it important for people to get to know the real me.

Hello Everybody its been awhile! So this week I was thinking. If I had to do a Video blog or story about myself or something I am interested in. What should I do to stand out and make it good? First, let us say for example I wanted to do a let's play video. The current game I have been playing as of late is called Don't Starve Together. It is basically a crafting and survival game where you just simply survive and not let the world around you kill your character. I have been playing with my girlfriend Blood Queen and I was figuring what would be a good way to help beginners to learn the game. So if I was going to do a video blog about my experiences in Don't Starve Together. This is how I would do it. I would begin each video with my very own logo and a short introduction about my channel lets say about 10 seconds long. (It is important for my viewers to know who I am and get the familiarities of my videos.) I would do a beginners video chronicling how to survive

What Makes a good digital Story This week I have been tasked with a new question, that touches upon old ideas. I have been asked, what makes a good digital story? I feel the best stories are the ones told where you get to experience them yourself in 1 st  person point of view. There is not one true structure that is perfect in making a good digital story. I have learned there are many different literary elements and structures commonly used, that come close to an adequate formula for digital storytelling. For me personally, I feel the choose your own adventure and narrative stories are the best methods. I have gone in depth about narratives in the last four weeks. I have commented on the two stories She’s a Flight Risk and The Sick Land. These stories are the ones we can relate to the most because it is almost as if we were them. The way our heroes react in the story could make us imagine as the audience, what would we do in these situations. For example, on She’s a Flight Risk

Hello Everyone This week I played a choose your own adventure type game called  [Text] A Summer Story. It is both a story and an interactive game. A girl named Maya visits her uncle in Japan for a week. She texts him while on the ferry and gets a message from a stranger that has his phone number. It is a boy name Takeshi. He worked for her uncle at the shrine last year. When you get to her uncle's place, the story lets you choose your own actions. You have to play the game 7 times, in order to see the whole story unfold. Eventually, you find out the Takeshi is a ghost accidentally killed by your uncle. Depending on your choices you may or may not find out and you may be killed or killed by her uncle. When you finish one story, you become more interested and want to see what your other choices could have been. You learn more about Maya's Point of View and the Plot that takes center stage in this story. You get her sense of Point of View, as she tells the story in her ow

Hello Again everyone! Today I played an interactive fiction game called Colossal Cave. It reminded me of all the old, choose your own adventure books, I use to read when I was younger. It was a hypertext game, that let you read the story while you input commands, to give your character choices to follow. I admit I had some trouble at first to find out the right commands to use. I personally feel this is a good way to tell a story. Like this and the many narratives, we have read so far, is engaging to certain audiences. According to The New Digital Storytelling. " Unlike a novel, we have no single, linear direction to follow. Instead, reading a hypertext is something like a hybrid of exploring a space" He talks about how we are the authors. We get to make an impact on the narrative. This type of storytelling is different because, in a way, we get to experience the narrative as if we were a part of it. Also since there are so many choices the path and ending can always c

Hello again everyone! I listened to my reviewers and wanted to say I added quotation marks to make it easier for my bloggers to read my quotes and fix some grammatical errors. I felt like it was best for me to paraphrase and not overuse my quotes. I did not want to overly rely on them as a way to cheat and win the assignment so I kept my blog the same. I felt that keep it simple in the end would be more beneficial for my readers to comprehend. For this project, I felt it was a good idea for me to reread She’s a Flight Risk and The Sick Land. After rereading both narratives. I feel in comparison they both have a strong literary technique in common. Though their experiences are different, they both share their narratives, in their own  point of view . Point of View is what we’re going to be talking about today. They both tell their own point of views in the narratives. The sick land uses a direct narrative. Our hero Alex Case writes a journal that’s is completely honest and hold

Hello Everybody!!! It is another exciting week of Blogging! I dunno what it is? me personally I like many other people, enjoy stories where situations slowly get bad to worse (kinda like a zombie apocalypse theme like feeling.) I have decided that I still have diaries on my mind. This week's Literary Feature I have Chosen is TONE  the slow continuing of hopelessness and dread. I have been playing Fallout 4 recently,  I have liked the diaries in the video game and the blog The Sick Land have some similarities. I like the theme how everything is bright at the beginning and everything slowly turns to despair. Quoting the Author of The new Digital Storytelling Bryan Alexander pg 49 paragraph 3 ( The Sick Land builds up through escalating violence into something approaching cosmic horror..... The tale proceeds chronologically, without any asynchronous foreshadowing or editing or earlier posts. It begins on a note of hope and positive anticipation.) Researcher, Alex Case is exc

Hello again! everybody I am new to writing blogs. It is something I have never done before. I admit it is a little intimidating, but I am going to try my best. I would really appreciate comments on how I am writing to better improve my blogs thank you everybody. I chose this blog because, I am interested into mysteries and I like a good narrative on whats going on in people's mind in certain situations. How does  one  literary feature from  The Literary Web for Theorists  enhance the story? As we begin she leaves some strange info about herself, I’m twentysomething and I am an international fugitive. “My name is isabella v. But it isn’t..” Why would she say this? Why is she an international fugitive? Leaving clues and half truths about her situation. She is still trying to adjust to her new situation “The first two weeks, the hardest, are over. I feel mostly safe. As safe as I can feel.” She blogs about how she must be careful. She misses the old world, the old her

My name is Christopher James C De Baca!!! but my alias online is known as Loki. The best way i Describe myself is, I am a Native American, Spanish Goth/Rocker with a little bit of Scene. I am a 5-5 30 year old man who is in his second semester in college. I love to play video games, music and watch anime. My favorite games are of the Final Fantasy, Persona and Kingdom Hearts Series. My favorite bands are Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Queen and Nightwish. Currently I watch Dragon Ball Super, Castlevania, Aggretsuku and The Devil is a Part  Timer I like to spend my time to listening to all sorts of beautiful music, going to rock concerts and enjoying nature. Now I didn't put every little thing about me on hear or that would take days! I hope to learn more about storytelling in this class, which will give me more better ideas for the future. I hope all of you have a very good semester and our successful with you classes and goals!!!!