E-Publishing - Week 9

So the lecture was cancelled this week but instead we had some individual meetings set up for later on in the week. The meetings were to discuss what we were thinking of doing for our final projects. I can't help but thinking that there is definitely an easy route through the final project in the form of publishing a book through Lulu, I'm thinking that that is a 10 minute job and then it's pretty much done. However, my interests lie in new media and gaming so I'm planning on making life a lot harder for myself and concentrating my final project on interactive fiction. (Note: I am probably going to regret this at a later stage).

For the final project we have to create the project itself (in my case the interactive fiction) and also a critical piece to go with it, examining the area and how we could market the product. My tutor suggested maybe using an existing film such as Casablanca and maybe turning that into interactive fiction. I think that it is definitely a good idea to use an environment that people are already familiar with rather than creating one from scratch. I wonder if Joss Whedon would mind if I created "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Interactive Fiction Game".....hmmmmm.

I have used some of my free time by having another go at Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, trying to familiarise myself with the language used. Yep, I still managed to blow myself up!