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Midweek Gear CheckWeek 2

Games MOOC

Avatars and Online Identity

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MinecraftFriday Office Hours 2-4 pmOpen House Next Saturday

MinecraftMarianne Malmstrom

Knowclue KiddNext Tuesday

World of WarcraftFriday Office Hours 2-4 pmSaturday Google Hangout

How to Introduce World of Warcraft

Discussion of how to Introduce WoW

Inevitable Instructors

AVATARS, ALTS, TOONS

And the WORLDS they live in

Screenshots and Discussion

Daedalus Project

AVATARS, ALTS, TOONS AND THE WORLDS THEY LIVE IN

Avatar

Sanskrit term meaning the living embodiment of a god. Neal Stephenson in his book Snowcrash popularized this term to mean online representation of self.

Often used interchangeably by gamers with toon, alt, or character.

TOON

'Toon' is a term used gamers, especially players of massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG) for a player character in the game.

The term is a shortened form of cartoon.

ALTs and Mains

• Alternate character, a secondary character in a MMORPG. MMORPGs often allow for multiple characters. An Alt is distinguished from a “Main.” A Main is usually the primary character one plays.

What is a gravatar?

“Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog.”

https://en.gravatar.com/

http://en.gravatar.com/

1st Person Shooter

• FPSs show a first person perspective, that renders the game world from the visual perspective of the player character.

• You will typically not see your avatar unless there is a mirror or cinematic.

Third Person Shooter

• Third-person shooter (TPS) is a genre of video games where the player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles.

• Common angle is looking over character’s right shoulder

NPC• Non-player character, a

character in a role-playing game or video game who is controlled by the game rather than by a player.

Pets & Companions

Kid Virtual Worlds

Wonderland

Naming Your Avatar

Choose Your Avatar

Inside the Workspace