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Final Multi Modal Project: Board Game

Final Multi Modal Project: Board Game

Sorry this was really late, but I had to go back and fix a lot of the cards for the game. Of course, I’m sure I wasn’t able to catch all of them so forgive me if any grammatical errors ( or otherwise) made it past me.

 

Anyway here it is.

PDF of the rules: TheLastYear

PDF of the cards and the board: you can get them here

–I set up a wordpress site for the game. It’s a pretty bare bones but it works for the most part. The post on How to Play is password protected so if you want to refer to it on the wordpress site for whatever reason, you can just type in: eng431

There are no capitals or spaces in the password. This will most likely be the password for all future posts if there happens to be any. The PDFs for the cards and board game aren’t password protected so feel free to just download them.

 

I’m glad that the few who got to try it had fun with the game I made. For those who didn’t get the chance to, I’ve compiled the rules and all the main components ready for you to use.

The rules are kind of a long read and I would understand if anyone wouldn’t want to read all of them, but I tried to explain and cover what I thought was necessary to know how to be able to play.

It’s not a difficult game to pick up. I tried to streamline it in a way that would be easy to understand and be able to play in a short amount of time. If you’e played games like Munchkin then you’ve got somewhat of a head start since Munchkin was a big influence for this project. If you haven’t played Munchkin before, don’t worry. The game I made is it’s own thing and you aren’t required to have played the games that influenced my game to play it.

 

That said, if you do have any issues or the rules are confusing or whatever, feel free to contact me through the wordpress site I set up specifically for the game. The contact info is available at the bottom of the homepage.

Other than the rules and the printouts, all you’ll need is a pair of two 6 sided dice for each player and you’re ready to roll.

I hope you guys have fun with it.

It’s been a great semester and I learned a lot in this class.

Good luck with any remaining finals and I wish you all an amazing summer.

-Marie C. ヾ(・ω・。)シ

👴🏻 Multimodal Project 👴🏻

👴🏻 Multimodal Project 👴🏻

So this was easily the least upsetting assignment I’ve had all semester. Putting it together was actually pretty enjoyable and I learned how to use quite a few programs & apps that I was previously unfamiliar with. Also first video I’ve ever edited, so that was fun!

Here’s the process I went through, which probably would have gone more smoothly if I had planned it out: 1. Drew crappy slow-moving picture “animation” in Animation Desk program (laptop) with digital drawing tablet 2. Saved it to my desktop 3. Wrote a summary/explanation/not-really-sure-what-anymore in the undeletable Notes app on my tablet 4. Took a pic of it and cropped it 5. Emailed it to myself 6. Put the video and image on a track in WeVideo 7. Found some elevator music, hold music, and school music on YouTube 8. Used a voice recorder app on my phone to record the sound as it played through my tablet (seriously didn’t attempt to figure out a simpler way for some reason) 9. Played this from my phone as it recorded through the laptop mic 10. Copy & pasted the summary thing from Notes and texted it to myself 11. Copy & pasted it into the Text to Speech app and chose the cool British Daniel voice to read it 12. Put those sounds into tracks for music and voice over in WeVideo 13. Decided to go back to Animation Desk and add a short, vaguely creepy quick and awful animation at the end 14. Saved this to my desktop 15. Emailed it to myself as a Doc 16. Used GDrive to save that to my camera roll. The end, but I probably skipped something.

Almost everything in this super weird video with preschool-quality drawings was included for a reason. I chose this elevator music because it seems as though such sounds almost slow time, like you’re waiting on something. In this, it’s kind of boring and you can’t wait for it to be over. This, to me, is similar to a class that is unnecessary and doesn’t accomplish any realistic goals. You just want it to be over, hoping for time to move more quickly each class. The kids’ song, “This is the Way We Go to School,” or something to that effect, was chosen for potentially obvious reasons; taking FYC and other courses that often don’t transfer the required skills of specific majors or occupations is “just the way it’s done.” That song is all about “how” to do things, but it never actually tells you how, or perhaps more importantly, why. Why is this the way we go to school? Why is this the way we do anything?

I mostly relied on Hall’s “Some ‘Givens” for this. I wanted to use each of his “Givens” originally (and call it The 25 Commandments or something), but holy crap there are so many.

Anyway, good luck out there~