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Factitious Fiction

Factitious Fiction is a collaborative storytelling game that facilitates cooperation as well as healthy competition. The application features a unique 2-dimensional grid composed of nine tiles in which the players take turns writing short story elements. The game pushes the common conception of what defines a story, the structure of narrative, and how a story should be read. Challenging the norm that a narrative is sequential, immutable, and monotonic, Factitious Fiction uses a structure inspired by Conway's Game of Life that allows players to move tiles and change text.

The game has no end and continues until all the players are satisfied, and it evolves rapidly as players fill in short snippets (140 character limit) of the narrative. The players cooperate to create a coherent story that can potentially be read as any traversal through adjacent (no diagonals) tiles that visits each one exactly once. This places innovative, yet transitive, constraints on the story and can transform even the most mundane plots into a fun and creative challenge!

[The application looks (and runs) best on the latest Chrome browser*.]

Some potential goals of the project are:

  • Rapid (collaborative) prototyping/brainstorming of narratives
  • Teaching of story elements and plot development
  • FUN!
  • EXCITEMENT!
  • Storyline editing

The project can be seen at: http://factitiousfiction.heroku.com/ and the code can be found at: http://github.com/Jay-Oh-eN/Factitious-Fiction

*Since this project is mainly a prototype (and not meant to be put into production) to experiment with different forms of narrative and new web technologies, I did not bother to ensure cross browser compatibility although it should display and function properly on any modern HTML5/CSS3 capable browser.

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CALGEM

CALGEM

Just a Couple

Undergraduates of Chemistry

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University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts: Double Major in
Computer science and Physics (3.5 GPA)

Graduation December 2011


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Citizens for East Shore Parks (CESP)
6/2009-Present
Web Master, Database, and Network Manager: Maintain and update website (www.eastshorepark.org) while also managing online server.

Berkeley Student Cooperative
8/2010-9/2011
Network Manager: Educate and provide documentation to new house members on all of the network’s features including our servers, projector, printer, and wireless routers, as well as inform members on computer security.

University of California - Berkeley Law
6/2010-3/2011
Web Assistant: Work directly with the Executive Director and the Editorial Director of Electronic Media to develop new content for Berkeley Law's website as well as on outreach campaigns.

Berkeley Student Cooperative
8/2009-1/2010
House Manager: Manage a house of 60 students essentially acting as a landlord.
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Web-Security Research: Professor Dawn Song
9/2011-Present
Hacker: Perform research pushing the bounds of the modern browser by exploring cross-site scripting (XXS) and client side Javascript security vulnerabilities.

Find all the holes… so we can sew them up and prevent any malicious parties from intervening.

Theoretical Ecology
8/2009-5/2010
Independent Research: Work with Prof. John Harte studying “Max Entropy and the State-Variable Approach to Macro-ecology.”

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
6/2009-5/2010
Web Intern: Design and build a website (calgem.lbl.gov) for the research group in order to display project information.
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Languages

Ruby (bloom), C/C++, Assembly/Machine (MIPS), Javascript, Python, Java, Scheme, PHP, Node.js, (My)SQL, MATLAB, LabVIEW

Web

HTML5, CSS3, jQuery/jQuery UI, JSON, Ajax, Express, Camping, Socket.io

OS

Windows XP, Mac OS X, Unix, Linux, FreeBSD

Software

VirtualBox, MS Office, FTP (FileZilla), Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Dreamweaver), GIMP, Inkscape.

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Optimized and Parallelized (OpenMP, Intel SSE) Matrix Multiply Competition Winner

Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Award in Humanities and Social Sciences Recipient

Design {at} jdinu {dot} com