iPimp_Speech
October 30, 2007 at 2:40 pm | In Classes, Presentation, iPhone, iPimp | Leave a CommentGood morning pimps and madams,
Thank you for coming to the iPimp seminar where this is a time when we consider your pleasures.
So what’s the next holiday?
Christmas?
So what do you want for Christmas?
*click*
Yes you can damn well pimp!
*click*
As you all know, iPimp is a massive multiplayer real life role playing game; challenging what is possible – challenging what is lawful, moral and right.
iPimp..
it’s a game with controversy
you make money
it’s social networking with real characters
you muck around with photos
it brings people together – legal or otherwise
but most importantly you have fun
*click*
This is designed for the iPhone to enhance everything that is capable on the ultra-techy machine. Again, you all know the ability to use the camera to take a photo of your whores, send a Bluetooth message to everyone, check out Google maps to see who’s the player in town. But now, introducing to you today is the new GPS system. This GPS is priority #1 so much so we even bought a satellite to prove it to you!
*takes out phone* *twirl* *close*
Sorry, management told me to hurry up so we can hold the testing for the new version of iPimp shortly after this. Oh and they confirmed to me just then, that they need 3 satellites.
I wanted them to use the existing infrastructure for the GPS tracking of your potential and surviving whores, and make the whole system cheaper as it is already available. But they have plenty to spend.
Anyways, with this GPS you can check your opponents, likely recruits, and most importantly – alerts you so you can run away from cops. The media has been a big help by spreading a little advertisement for us, but what they also have pointed out is glitch.
*click*
That it’s controversial? – Yes we know that. But also that people really care about their privacy! I understand how they Feel, other people have Felt the same thing, but what we have Found that this game is more profitable and ‘worth it’ to worry about the silly issues. So who cares about privacy?
Okay, and how many of you have blogs, or use a social networking site such as MySpace and Facebook? How much truth is there in the personal details and information you add? 99% You know, people who would want to steal the information would have more data to take on those sites than what is derived from a single image of a portrait.
*click*
There has been little change in the concept of the game, however we have added plenty of snazzy highlights. I won’t show any of this now since you will be seeing it on your iPhones after this speech. Particular ones I will note is a ‘pimp my name’ application where you get better quality names than the ones you have.
*click*
There is a dice game, where here you can gain more money when at a rare chance that your home alone. Using this money, now you can buy more equipment including needles, cars, guns, canes, clothing, bling and all for pimping up your photos.
*click*
Other additional features have been a chat room like IRC with all its facilities of points, quizzes, streaming real time into your iPhone. This links up with the forum where you can post any support, appraisals or concerns as well as bragging about your ranking or bitching and whining.
*click*
One point I may mention that this game is to also aiming to humanize us. What I mean is that well everyone always go on about computers ‘dehumanising’ their relationship with reality. In most cases in games now you would never ever see the face behind the soulless avatar images. This game involves Real people. And here, it is You who make those photos come alive. All you need to work on is having fun, and we’ll deal with ways on providing that for you.
*click*
The new iPimp provides you with an entertainment service that connects all the photo editing, gaming, social networking and technology all into the palm of your hand. I guarantee you that within the next few months iPimp is going to be taken into a new platform of high speed connections, better graphics, and become a standardized game in society. What’s good is that you will be the first ones to get the first look at this.
*click*
Please support us by visiting the wardrobe section available online and to go shopping for outfits. Now would you please gather up for testing of this game outside. Hurry up..
minisite_2
October 10, 2007 at 11:02 pm | In DECO, Rant, Website, iPhone, iPimp | Leave a CommentOkay.. It has been a really long time since I blogged.. (I almost forgot my username _Someone took HOTCOCOA!!_)
Basically, our website was due last week. I realized that I haven’t done enough work on the website or results.. But I spent AGES on my prototype.. Flash kills sometimes (and last week was most of the times..)
I have a problem, it’s the graphics involved with the prototype.. I only have 1! image!?! (and a little clip).. I want to make it all pretty and full on graphics, but I realized that before, my dialup internet was REALLY slow, and considering how long that took, I wasn’t really looking forward to having to play a game and wait for a minute for everything to show up. So now, it really is a text based game.. Though, to reduce the use of a slow connection, I would want to enhance more of the use of the iphone existing applications and abilities rather than waiting for everything to load for the iPimp.
What do I do now? Well, I already showed the Flash to some people. Many of them liked it, with some commenting about the graphics (read above if you skipped it..). What else? *Sigh* The #1 priority now is to finish the prototype. Basically, all I need to do is add more pages, made-up templates, and then market my application with a wicked website design and sales techniques. *nods*
Oh.. how can I forget? Check out my “Evaluated Minisite” @ http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~jtan2093/deco1200/evaluated/ ^^
Comment here!!
minisite_OMG
September 15, 2007 at 1:00 am | In DECO, Presentation, Prototype1, Rant, Website, iPhone, iPimp | Leave a CommentOMG
Finally finished (just 5 minutes before the deadline).
Thursday and Friday was sooooo hectic.
Too many people asking me questions @ class, so I think I might stay at home for future projects (especially when the deadline was today)!
Hahaha
Thursday, I spent Ages REDOING my minisite 1…. I heard from someone that Rob said that it should be a totally different one.. But around uhm.. 5pm? Kaz was talking about it to someone else in the class, and he said you don’t neccessarily Have to.. So I was freaking out about the layout, and I’m like.. OMG >< What a waste of my time (this is because all I had then on the website was the presentation and the speech during our proposals).
But getting up at 6am, and going home at 9pm isn’t really healthy.. I went to bed to do some work, but ended up falling asleep ><
Friday.. This time, got up at 7am.. and got to uni at 8am. But today is my anniversary (2 years and 7 months ^^). So I spent the morning relaxing a bit before I went to 313.
At 11, I showed up and started the evaluation Andrea gave us. It was made by Processing, and about visualizing data. There were a survey, forms etc. Then I think the whole thing took 3 hours.. (11 to 2? yea.. it did ><). The program kind of froze on me twice (and it was awfully slow).. And we had a group discussion afterwards. Nothing really useful under the user evaluations.. But at least I got a donut ^^
Did feedback for most of the day at uni. Didn’t have lunch until 4pm.. (And an hour before, my brain froze because I need food to function, and me without food = me hungry = really hungry = unable to do anything).
Got home around 7ish, made dinner, washed dishes.. Then started working on it at9.. But I’ve finished with the report, feedback, and prototype just before midnight. Very content..
Right now, I’m kinda worried that some people’s minisites aren’t finished, or aren’t showing up..
Many have awesome layouts and alot of content.
My favourite minisites: Lucy (cuteness), Kristian (marketing), Chloe (simplicity), Russel (flash), Patrick (prototype video), Drew (illustration and interaction), & Suna (banner). I’ve judged these on what the person did for his/herself – rather than copy and paste things. It’s late, I might have missed out on some awesome creations. Let me know if you want yourself on this list!
Goodluck all for minisite 2!!
iPod_Touch
September 7, 2007 at 11:45 pm | In Rant, Research, iPhone | Leave a Commenthaha iPhone price cuts $200.. and they bring in a music player – Exactly like the iPhone, but just without the phone capability.. (but you can use it in Australia..)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/articles/new-ipod-range-goes-touchy-feely/2007/09/06/1188783354916.html
“The iPod Touch is 8mm thick, and can store photos, music, videos and other digital data. The 8GB model is priced at $A419 and will be available in Australia later this month. A 16GB model will go on sale for $A549.”
friday_Presentation
August 25, 2007 at 8:22 am | In Classes, DECO, Presentation, iPhone, iPimp | Leave a CommentHere’s my speech:
iPimp DECO1200 Presentation 1 Before I start, is anyone younger than 18 here? iPimp What I propose is simply a pimping game. A game where it’s challenging what is possible – challenging what is lawful, moral and right. It’s an interactive game providing maximum amusement and enjoyment with competitive entertainment and bonus prizes. *click* Basically, all you do is recruit people to earn money, power and glory. These people you ‘recruit’ are called your whores. Gentlemen you are the pimps, and ladies you are the madams. Pimps and madams use the camera function to take a photo of the target, and spam everyone around them via Bluetooth with a message saying that they ‘are your bitches now’. In order for them to be free, they would have to join the game, and choose to remain loyal (and try to gang up on you with the rest of your whores) or become a cop (of course there’s always a ‘crooked’ cop). Here I added what a potential user wanted – the sides of good and evil. Also, those religious, moral, or whomever opposes the game can join and be the good cops, and try to turn everyone else who is not on their side into the jail. So what use is having recruits? They must bring you profit where you can further gain money and of course power. In the meantime, you can utilize your pimp status to make them pose for you and you can add outfits and bling to their new photos. You can game out on the streets, at parties and clubs, and then compete against each other, or in communities (otherwise known as gangs). If you want, you can also check out a map connected with Google, to display who’s owning the block. As for the being the top with the most whores and money, we will reward the best player with his or her very own outfit to match their rank. iPimp is directed for an adult market of 18+. But in reality we all know a gaming experience starts earlier (roughly 13). The user would want to play a game which they believe would deliver them an advantage. The user group would be more appealing to the male audience, gamers (who doesn’t mind annoying people with spam), people with a high priority in their social life, those who want a little personal gain in their stash (as we like being greedy). Personally, all I would like in this game is just to have a little fun and mess around with photos. I did a quick online questionnaire using my raw, initial proposal. I realized that various users want different things from the system, such as one wanted for a good game, a clever scoring system. Another person wanted facial recognition software, to track down information of the recruits. Another, a rating system for the photos taken, and definitely obtaining revenue from it. Ultimately, I can only satisfy some people, not all. To test my idea, I will develop a storyboard first of the elements involved in the game, and perhaps find alternative ideas within it. Then I set out to question, survey, and converse with the users with a visual prototype (like using index cards) and involve the users further into the design process. *click* A guy commented that ‘in the society we live in such reckless game will not be taken in because it’s about whores and pimps. Obviously family members (parents especially) would avoid getting their children involve. It’s like in an education system, it’s teaching a child how to be a pimp.’ This leads to my first question, “how would I make this game positive in a way to be allowed in mainstream society?”. Considering the unethical nature of this game, maybe now it would be readily accepted by some, but be more than disapproving to the rest. Because from what I can see now, I have most of the male audience’s attention, but not the females. So my second question is, “what incentives can I have to involve more of the female audience?” From the experience I have gained in online games where males are the majority of the population, it seems that females are more confronted by the lack of their same-sex peers, so they steer away from the alien world (or they are just plainly not interested in games). In a game like this, “would you want to be anonymous or proud of your achievements?” Some people like boasting and showing off, whilst others would want to perhaps want to be worshipped and known as the ‘mysterious X’? This is also for protecting your pimp identity, or fear of being sabotaged because you’re the big boss. Futura things I need to do is to do more research in the technical department of how I’m going to work this out if some problems; like a limited Bluetooth range, or very slow internet access would hinder the game’s capabilities. Or I could feign ignorance and say this game is to be developed in a few years time. Perhaps it’s hard for you to choose between your desires and your upright principles. But right now, *camera* you’ve all been whored!
pimpin_Hos
August 22, 2007 at 7:21 pm | In Prototype1, Rant, Research, iPhone, iPimp | Leave a CommentHaha omg I cannot believe I’m actually doing an application for this.. rofl So.. what is this: I don’t supposed many would want to read about ‘pimp’ (so check out the best resource! wiki! *cough* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimp *cough*) This ’research’ is getting.. weirder hum.. lol Other very important links (for me to note) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_Girl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Prostitution Blah blah Okay, for the past 4 hours, I’ve been asking people on msn (male, 18-20s) about what they think about the iPimp game. I just sent them information on my initial idea.
Izzac… says:
LOL!!! i like it i think it works
»ÑàÜT¡|ÀTÔR« ® - says:
so if you get your pic taken, your whored?and the only way to be unwhored is to pass on the “whore” status to someone else is to get their pic taken?
i think that, if youve been whored, you can then recriut other “whores” and then if you have enoug, you can break away from your pimp and become your own
You always have someone higher above you
heavy legs mcgee says:
sounds like a good idea though
completely different interface
it is actually really clever
havent heard of anything like it
sort of like nintendo ds controller
gps is one way communication
the satellites do not know where you are
you would have to send that info over 3g
or equivalent
I think any game to get people off their ass is a good one
and ps…try and think of an equally clever scoring system
a good game deserves a good scoring system
reward high scored
like with a pimp hat or something
im thinkin of putting more into the photo/software?
like once you take the photo, you can add images on top
like clothing, hats, shoes, money, bling blah
yeh well facial recognition software is pretty good
yeh well make the extra images have to be earned/bought
with pimp points
with skype you can add a hat on your head and it tracks where your head is
so theoretically you could have a video profile pic
with all the moving bling etc
Phong says:
lol i tihnk thats an invasion of privacy
Dipak says:
wowwww i m wondering , why this game is not in real
i m desperate to play
u can use something like RATE ME
the image can be rated by audience
in particular time frame
most rated image can get some reward
any idea on how i can create ———– can’t comment without proper understanding, ( but java is good for mobile applications )
from reading what do u understand——– it makes first impression as adult game
would u play it?———— i can’t wait to play
what other target audience———— i guess age gropu 13 to 40
complaints?———– not right now, but sure , heaps later on
*help Ro-J*龍 @ Beijing…♪ says:
wow
then i guess it’s fine then!
how do you calculate the money if someone wants to do something for the person instead of “paying” them money?
i guess you’ll have to sign up to join the game, you have to recruit another person then you can remove the debt?
so like…making the team
but would those who have removed the debt still able to get “whored”?
so…if you’ve been recruited by a person, you won’t get whored again?
not by the same person
i guess you can be recruited by another
then how do you determain which side you’re on if you’ve been recruited by multiple sides?
say you’ve been recruited by one side~ like you said here “by recruiting other people to take their place (or gang up on you)” and the “leader” have been tracked down, can they still make put you at their place?
like…substitude?
so will the substitude be on both sides if this is the case
i can have like a cop vs pimp thing
“In the meantime, you can ‘blackmail’ them to pose for you or whatever. ” i don’t quite get this
because they are your whores, they must ’satisfy’ you, and you can make them pose in positions, and you get to take photos
but those whores would get to pose for multiple people won’t they? since they’re always been tracked or something
no, a whore can only have 1 pimp
but some questions only arise when this is put into action
like…perhaps connection problems, people can’t be found etc.
ya connection is a big thing
im just gonna assume in 10 years time, everyone has an iphone, either bluetooth is really really good, that internet is all fast speed, 3g is up and running, and ya [웨이샹♡3][-2698daystill] dissertation… says:
1) the game will not work
and 2) u cud fail this presentation
reasons
well in the society we live in such reckless game will not be taken in
cuz its about whores and pimps
obviously family members (parents especially) wud avoid getting their children involve
in the education system its like teaching a child how to be a pimp
even though its only a game
oh and besides the eithical and all those issues
there is also the issue of how many ppl wud actually turn their bluetooth on
or what ever connection ur planning to use
not to mention how many ppl are willing to learn how to use it?
there is a learning curve to everything
ive researched that when a game has a specific amount of level of learning curve*
the game play wud either drop early or late
simple words wud be the person playing the game wud get bored of it really
easy cuz they dont know how to play the game
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