Weekly Record of Time Spent

A summary, by Zach Tomaszewski

for ICS 699, Spring 2007, directed by Dr. Kim Binsted

Goal: 15 hours a week, divided evenly (3 hours each) between 5 different focuses.

Week 1	1:35	3:20	0:00	5:10	4:15
	Reading	Sketching	Writing	Misc	Gaming
Week 1	Intro, etc. of Chatman	Interp from Scene to Function etc.		looking for decent time tracker setting up meeting time establishing this page	D&D play (B)
Week 2	3:45	2:10	0:00	1:20	0:00
Week 2	Chatman (Chapt 1, etc.) Peinado (2 articles)	Set of simplified Propp functions (mapped to story arc) Scene as a script, with outcome as variable set		Emails Meeting
Week 3	2:35	0:45	0:45	0:35	0:00
Week 3	Peinado (2 articles)	Post-hoc stories. Narrative-generating worlds.	Consolidating old notes and papers	Webpage update. Emailing.	[11:30 - OpenRPG setup, config, design]
Week 4	2:00	2:00	1:40	1:25	8:30
Week 4	Chatman (Chapt 3, part) Chatman (notes, chapt 1) Inform DM (verb set)	Aspects of a Scene Scene as other-than-task	Consolidating old notes (some Sketching involved)	Wepage updates. Committee approval/petition email	Inform Practice game: design (map, NPCs, props) Inform Designer's Manual (IDM, Chapts 1-3) Example game Ruins Textpad .syn file (as Inform exercise)
Week 5	0:00	5:25	0:00	4:00	7:10 + 3:30
Week 5		Components of a Scene Verbs Manipulations Functions Story Coherence Rules		CHS Workshop	Inform (reading IDM, small coding experiments) (3:40) NWN (Bim Kithim) (3:30) D&D play (B) (3:30) [OpenRPG prep (3:40)]
Week 6	3:35	0:00	0:00	0:50	2:00 + 2:40
Week 6	Chatman Chatman notes (chapt 1, 2)			Meeting Webpage update	NWN (play, module builder, cheating) D&D play (Z)
Week 7	0:00	2:10	4:50	0:35	1:50
Week 7		What Happened to Functions?	Argax site update Aristotle on Plot structure Going through Freytag notes	Setting up argax-L Webpage update	D&D play (B)
Week 8	1:05	0:00	1:55	0:25	0:00
Week 8	Chatman notes (early chpt 3)		Plot structure (Aristotle, Freytag)	Webpage update Emailing
Week 9	3:05	0:00	1:45	3:25	1:10 + 3:50
Week 9	DMG (Chapt 1, 3) Gygax's RPing Mastery		Plot structure (Freytag)	Webpage updates Argax-L setup and config Welcome email to Argax-L	Surfing Gygax, history of D&D, WoD Storytelling system D&D Play (Z)
Week 10	8:00	0:00	0:00	5:20	7:45
Week 10	RPing Mastery D&D DMG			GTxA reading Emailing	Digitizing gamebook plot map 2 CYOA maps (#160 Computer Takeover, #161 Possessed!) CYOA map digitizing; graphviz Wikipedia and RPG theory site skimming
Week 11	3:20	0:00	0:00	0:55	1:05 + 5:35
Week 11	RPing Mastery (done) DMG (done)			Website update Meeting (lightning tour of past 5 weeks; time to end lit review phase)	More planning of RCh (Inform practice game) D&D - B
Week SB	1:10	0:50	2:40	4:45	4:25
Week SB	Ivo Swartjes' "Fabula Model for Emergent Narrative"	Review, fleshing out	Propp	Website update Emails with Ivo Swartjes	Inform DM4 reading Work on RCh started
Week 12	0:20	3:40	1:00	0:05	0:00
Week 12	Chatman	Story Coherence Rules Story Coherence System Example Wharf sketching and storylines	Propp Proppian Limitations	Webpage update
Week 13	0:55	2:40	6:30	0:20	0:00
Week 13	Chatman Library (story arc)	Story Coherence system brainstorming Possible Wharf skill/verb/combat system	Proppian Limitiations	Webpage updates; emailing
Week 14	3:45	7:35	1:00	0:25	0:00
Week 14	Reviewing old articles (as part of writing process) Entering notes in wikindx	Wharf evolves to The Tree and the Cave Some sample locations, characters, and encounters Character model (inc. morality, affinity) and skill/magic system Default verb set The Cost of Interactivity Formula for initial affinity	Propp Limitations	Argax-L posting Wepage update
Week 15	0:50	0:15	13:00	0:45	0:00
Week 15	More in wikindx	Nature of User Agency	Limitations of Propp-based Approach to ID	Emails (inc. to AAAI Fall Symp)
Week 16	0:25	0:15	1:50	3:25	3:00
Week 16	TIDSE-04	Agency	Limitations of Propp-based Approach to ID	Emails Argax site update GTxA reading Summer research to-do list	NWN
Exam Week	0:30	0:00	0:50	0:00	5:20
Exam Week	TIDSE-04		Propp Limitations -- last edit and submission!	Webpage update	D&D - B