Planning "Naked on Pluto" 01 June til 01 November 2010

Dave

• June - No
• July: 1 - 18
• August: 2 - 8 or 27 onwards
• September: ok
• October: ok except 5 - 7

Marloes&Aymeric

• June: -
• July: -
• August: -
• September: -
• October: -

• Build infrastructure: set-up blog, server to host app, code repository
• Make persistent (so people can see objects/places that other people

have added) [~1wk]

• Add concept of users (and therefore ownership of the data created) [2

days]

• Read up properly on facebook app privacy policy, so we don't

immediately trip over something [1 day]

• Integrate with facebook, add personal data to inventory - this would

mean you could 'drop' bits of you profile around the world (just an simple idea to start with) [1wk]

• …
• First sketch ready

Test workshop 1 Testing the first sketch with 5 (local) participants and gathering feedback for the first sprint (1 day)

+-14 days

Test workshop 2

+-14 days

Expert meeting: game developers

Test workshop 3

+-14 days

Expert meeting: remote collaboration and physical spaces/labs

• Story writing

1. Development of the game world
2. Development of the game script (quests, characters, interactions with items, interactions with bots, possible interactions with other players)
3. Development of a “storyboard” script

• Research on Facebook and other social gaming platforms

1. The APIs
2. Research the policies and rules associated with these APIs

• Document the research and development process

1. Create and maintain a blog
2. Maintaining a Code repository
3. Maintaining a wiki for content development
4. Maintaining communication channels for user feedback

• Developing and researching the frameworks needed

1. What languages/tools exist?
2. Create our own FLOSS platform/toolkit - targeted at reuse by other artists/projects.

• Visualisation of the information gathered inside the game:

1. Realise, from the players perspective, a transparent view on what information is accessible to the game and which information it is using.

• Bots

1. Research the AI element
2. Researching how we can create confusion about whether or not a player is dealing with a bot or a person (ELIZA effect1).

• Fitting this into a game world

1. Researching text games
2. Building or reusing a text based game engine
3. Playtesting2, making the feedback loop as short as possible: releasing often, collecting feedback, making sure it is easy to add new content, try out new ideas and change things.