Author: keegan.ennis

Approach 3 – KeeganE

Background: This project is oriented around the idea of presenting the Eco-Issue of overpopulation in an interactive fiction, utilizing the environment Inform 7 to easily manage both dynamic and narrative elements found within the game.   Explanation: The narrative focuses heavily on presenting the player […]

EcoArt Intent – KeeganE

  My intent is to create an interactive fiction which revolves around the environmental-issues of overpopulation and resource-depletion. ‘The Green Problem’ is a project which utilizes the environment, Inform 7, as its engine. The main character is played from the second-person perspective, putting the user […]

Approach 2-KeeganE

Background: This project combines generative art, user-interactivity, and existential analysis to create a unique window into my personal experiences with existential isolation and anxiety. I will supplement this piece with specific quotes and experiences; a combination of my own sentiments and those of established philosophers. […]

Autobotography Intent_KeeganE

As my ongoing love for existentialism continues to be supported by the majority of my coursework this semester, I’ve opted to use this project as yet another method of channeling some of the ideas and thoughts which power the majority of my creative impulses at this […]

Response3 – KeeganE

I’ve chosen to review both Jennicam and Nobody Here. These two projects stuck out to me for various reasons, but I’ll begin by breaking down my analyses of Jennicam first. Jennicam represented a kind of enigma for the time: full transparency in a public domain […]

Intent 1b – KeeganE

This is a modified intent from my previous idea, which was much more broad then I had intended. My new intent is a video-game, created in the game-development software RPGmaker, a nested-code based engine which supports isometric and 2D-based role-playing-games. I believe that one of […]

Hacktivism Intent – KeeganE

Restoration of ‘Free’ Public Spaces One of the issues addressed in class which really managed to worm its way into my mind is that of the eradication of public spaces. Places to gather, converse, create, and share ideas is something which I find very important, […]

Response 1-KeeganE

New Media 206 has so far presented me with a substantial amount of ideas and thoughts to work with and further alter the definition of ‘new media’ which was formed by the end of my NMD-100 and NMD-102 courses. In our very first class we […]