The first public presentation of our concept specification task went smoothly, the Facebook Sancuary idea didn’t catch too much flak from the rest of the group. I guess our biggest challenge is the sheer vastness of the application, at least I have never seen a complete override of the basic profile. Still, if we keep the basic profile running in the background the thing shouldn’t be completely unfeasible. Another big challenge will be the “masked” real-time message/invitation updating which we intend to do with a visual gadget. I’ll be the first one to admit that an actual realization of the application concept would be way beyond our programming skills.
Another thing we have to consider is the fact that we can’t have the user completely idle when using Sanctuary. I did a little “research” the other night in connection with the mini-games we intend to incorporate into the sub-profile. The Bowman game at www.stickpage.com provides a nice prototype for the archery game we planned on including. One idea might be to have the avatar perform the game tasks in the same basic “desktop” view of the application. The stick figure look so stylishly portrayed at stickpage also gave me some ideas as to what the look and feel of the Sanctuary space might be. At least I would prefer it instead of the “Lego” look of Habbo.
About the title of this post: I got some new spectales on Friday and they’re really giving me a hard time. In addition to the splitting headache caused by the 0.5 diopter change the specs are also giving me a bit of a personality crisis with their trendy Buddy Holly -esque heaviness. I look like freakin’ Phantom over here. Well, I picked them out myself, didn’t I?
I’ll just go and cry in a corner. You, on the other hand, can enjoy this clip:
Dirty, filthy cowboys.
