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==The Modus Operandi== | ==The Modus Operandi== | ||
I have approached this game with several major goals in mind. Broadly these goals include the intellectual and | I have approached this game with several major goals in mind. Broadly these goals include the intellectual and psychological edification of the players involved, exploration of issues as they might evolve in the future (for example, religion and its role in society), and experimentation with literary styles. Let us examine each of these in turn. | ||
===Intellectual Edification=== | ===Intellectual Edification=== | ||
I have done my best to create in Breeman a character who produces a rich thought life. In writing his thought life I have tried to give my readers some food for thought (excuse the pun). I've given Breeman a good imagination that serves both him as a computer programmer and me as a writer. I have been able to capitalize on his imagination in creating extended metaphors by which to carry themes through multiple sims. The major example I can think of now is Breeman's 'crying issue' in some recent posts, in which the images of the planet Venus and of supersonic flight were presented as lines of thought accompanying the main storyline. | I have done my best to create in Breeman a character who produces a rich thought life. In writing his thought life I have tried to give my readers some food for thought (excuse the pun). I've given Breeman a good imagination that serves both him as a computer programmer and me as a writer. I have been able to capitalize on his imagination in creating extended metaphors by which to carry themes through multiple sims. The major example I can think of now is Breeman's 'crying issue' in some recent posts, in which the images of the planet Venus and of supersonic flight were presented as lines of thought accompanying the main storyline. | ||
The [[smiley]]s have also served me in this capacity. While also providing a readily deployable engineering task force to grant Breeman greater mobility (consider for example, Breeman's electing to join the boarding party aboard the [[USS Phoenix]] the [[USS Independence-A]]'s retaking of that vessel) | The [[smiley]]s have also served me in this capacity. While also providing a readily deployable engineering task force to grant Breeman greater mobility (consider for example, Breeman's electing to join the boarding party aboard the [[USS Phoenix]] the [[USS Independence-A]]'s retaking of that vessel). | ||
===Exploration of Issues=== | |||
I have devoted some posts exclusively to exploring social or philosophical issues. For example, a recent post concerned [[Jan Droogendyk]] attending a service at the 'chapel' aboard the | |||
==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
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*[[Smiley]]s | *[[Smiley]]s | ||
*[[Patri Jia Kom]] | *[[Patri Jia Kom]] | ||
*[[Jan Droogendyk]] | |||
==Real Life information== | ==Real Life information== | ||
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* Where do you see this group in five years? | * Where do you see this group in five years? | ||
* How do you think this group has contributed to Star Trek's legacy? How has the group contributed to the internet community? | * How do you think this group has contributed to Star Trek's legacy? How has the group contributed to the internet community? | ||
===Key Simming Strategies=== | |||
====Narrative Voice Injection==== | |||
This involves making use of the narrative voice to add a bit of effect to a post. For example, consider the following piece of text: | |||
|The chair under him lurched a few centimetres but his body felt stationary and motionless. It wasn't that the physics on the bridge were in some way violated so much as that his brain, in conforming with the laws dictating the physics of this region of space, did its feeble best to maintain conscious experience with the disjointed information. Where parts of his sensory system were able to register, small temporal fluctuations in other portions of his brain were causing reality's coherence to diminish a bit. Of course Kevin was not able to recognize this at the time, and so I must clarify the matter as his narrator in order that this narrative might maintain the coherence which its subject lacked in experience.| | |||
[[Category:Memory Books]] | [[Category:Memory Books]] | ||