Category: 07-Telematic

I created a collaborative drawing website that has rooms for groups of people to semi-privately draw together. I intend for these rooms to be used by people who know each other in real life to have fun and draw together. A small quirk to this drawing app is that each user gets a random color when they enter the website, and they must work with others to create artwork that is colored in the ways that they want. Although the quirk is small, I thought it would be something fun to collaborate on with friends.

The Collaborative Drawing Room

Moving forward, I would like to add a reset button to clear the board as well as have navigating or entering different rooms easier (perhaps with a beginning pop up screen).

I’ll keep this semi short and also just add a few things Jean didn’t mention in her post.

The first idea, as discussed with Golan, was based on the idea of a space for release via limitless destruction on the internet. It would’ve been similar to a rage room except because it isn’t real, you could destroy things you wouldn’t have been able to normally. It’s also extremely accessible because it’s a public website. However, this ended up just not be feasible within the constraints of a telematic environment, so we decided to go with another idea of making a more subtle, calming, ripple environment. We did actually plan to add sound, but just didn’t get to it. The goal was if just one person clicked it would sound like a soft water droplet, and as more people join and start clicking, it would sound like a quiet rainfall. Thus, it would have a few different peaceful states based on collective effort/how many people are using the site at that moment. We also just thought there was something poetic about being able to see the effects of some anonymous person’s actions in a visible ripple. In addition, in one of our preliminary ideas that included the background, it diluted the focus of this idea and instead made it more about the cute environment – which is not what we wanted.

Final product:

https://grizzled-south-shoe.glitch.me

p.s. thank you jean for presenting for us 😅

Share puzzle image album: https://checker-big-sing.glitch.me/ 

Ally and I worked together on this project. We first started with the idea of a collaborated image collage space where users can upload, edit and place their image pieces on a shared canvas. But we struggled with the freehand cropping feature, which is kinda crucial to collaging.

We then pivoted our idea to make a collaborative puzzle space, where different users can upload images via URL and the image will be processed to look like a puzzle piece. The reason for choosing a puzzle shape is that it has a well-perceived affordance of being picked up and moved around. And the goal wasn’t really to complete a cohesive big picture, but more about forming arbitrary and somewhat random subgroups of connections from different users’ pieces.  However, this depends a lot on the user being able to move each piece, which is not supported in this current version. This really subtracted from our goal and made the project less interactive/interesting and more like an online album.  It defiantly needs a lot more work moving forward.

challenges/next step:

• • image information is stored in a way that’s harder to retrieve and update.
  • each piece needs to be movable
  • not much freedom on the user’s side; no further edits to the picture
  • UI can use more refinements
  • some urls cannot be recognized(blank puzzle piece), depends on where the url is gotten from

https://collab-space.glitch.me/

My project is a collaborative drawing program where visitors draw constellations in an imagined space.

Play Longest Word

Look at the code

Longest Word: Try to come up with the longest word you can using the random letters of a 5×5 grid. Compete with your family and friends to see who can get the longest word, and compare your scores on the scoreboard! There’s a new grid of letters to try every new UTC day!

This project was based on a Trivia Murder Party (a Jackbox game) mini-game where you have to find, from a grid of letters, the longest word out of all of your friends. The person with the smallest word dies.

I’m really proud of the random letter grid algorithm I developed, along with the implementation of the hiscore template in the scoreboard, that refresh every brand new day. In the past, I’ve only been able to make games that are fun for a few minutes, then immediately get boring. The fact that this game lives and changes on its own… does something new every day… I’m pretty proud of that!

I’m also happy with the checking system… checking to make sure the user input actually uses letters in the grid then checking to make sure it’s actually an English word.

There are some things I’d like to change, like maybe adding a time limit (similar to Trivia Murder Party’s version) to add a little bit more challenge and discourage cheating. I might also add some code to make it that no word can repeat on the scoreboard (basically, only the first person to have guessed that word can show up). In the above photo, if 10 people said “strengthen,” the whole scoreboard would show that, which would be pretty lame. I think this would also work a lot better as a two-person game with time limits, again to discourage trolls and cheating. Regardless, this was more so a learning experience that I’d at most share with my family and friends. I didn’t really intend this version for global use, as it’s supremely vulnerable to internet jerks.

There were some suggestions from the crit to make this game more complex, though I disagree. Yes, it’s a pretty simple concept, but that’s why I like it (and why I could actually complete it in two weeks).

I am really really proud of this game, and I really want to fix those things I mentioned above, as well as make it responsive to device height (it’s already responsive to width). It just kind of feels like the first thing I’ve made that people would actually want to use! I think this is a project that, though the due date has passed and I’ve already turned it in, I want to continue developing.

Here’s my original sketch, when it was just meant to be a two-person game.

Discover love through this website which notifies you when your crush walks within 50 meters of your proximity and likes you back.

http://love-alarm.glitch.me

There is a fictional version of this app that exists in a popular webtoon and drama. We wanted to turn this fictional idea into a reality to gauge people’s reactions to a similar product. Will people become more courageous when they like someone? Will this app help lessen missed connections?

The process of creating the website was challenging as we weren’t familiar with glitch and didn’t know if we could find the geolocation of the user nor store their data.

My piece is a 2-person web.

I was lucky enough to think of a much better idea than the original, highly contrived fire-based piece that I was originally thinking of making. With this piece, I feel like I was able to think of a very basic idea that nonetheless lends itself to an infinite number of ways of communication, that could be fully developed with a series of geometric runes to describe anything that you could with a normal, linear language. I feel like this is the most successful piece that I have made yet due to what I mentioned above. Still, I feel like it has some limitations as there is exactly a single pattern the corresponds to a given combination of fingers across the two screens. I would like to continue this piece by allowing certain lines between fingers to be disconnected by the second user.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_V-JzWzmTi5Wpz3UURJvGgBbK2pB0o9-/view?usp=sharing