Hi,
Following the mail I had sent below where I was offering Alex to work on
the first texts of the game, I'll sum up a discussion Alex and I had the
last days :
Alex is willing to work on this task - cool :)
The task consists of two elements : text that appears on the home page
of the organization, and text of the first mission.
The way to proceed could be the following :
1) brainstorm on the ml (and maybe on the chat too) in order to define a
first context (purpose of the organization and maybe founder's profile,
reason for contacting the player, tone, etc)
2) once this is done, Alex will suggest different possible directions
for each of the two texts so we can discuss the best one for each text
3) once we agree on each of the two options, Alex will actually write
the 2 texts.
On the financial side :
* the overall task will have a price of $555 USD
* the task will be broken into 3 milestones (the three steps described
above). At the end of each milestone, one third of the overall price
will be released.
Please let me know if you have any comment/concern !
We can start the work this week with some first discussions on the
context. I'll send a mail soon where I sum up my thoughts on that, in
order to help initiate the discussion.
Thx
D
PS : for these discussions, I suggest to use the tag [storyline] in the
subject of the mail.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Farsides] [Design] Re-writing the introductory mission and
introducing the organization
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:41:17 +0100
From: david blanchard <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Hi Alex,
I think it would be a good time for the project to work on the first
texts related to the introduction of the game (the first things that the
player will learn about the game when he reaches http://hackit.cx/).
I really appreciate your commitment on the mailing list, and I like your
inputs, so I would like to know if you would be interested by a first
contractual mission regarding the writing of this text. It would be a
rather small mission, but it would be a good way to test how we can work
together on something concrete together - a good first step.
Alex, what do you think ?
Xav all good for you ?
Concretely, there are two aspects according to me in this introduction :
- the text that is displayed on the front page of the organization
(http://hackit.cx/) and that gives a brief context about the organization.
- the text of the introductory mission (that you can see using the
"start mission" link on the lower right of the page). The purpose of
this mission is to explain to the player why he is being contacted, and
introduce him to the first tools he can use (hack bar). The complete
current text here can be reworked, as well as the "hack concept" (we'll
keep the mechanism of hack but we can present it in a different way -
it's basically an action performed on a website, that can be called the
way we want).
The idea here is also to work on the tone we use, because this will
impact the way we address the player in other missions and the whole
atmosphere of the game.
Are you interested ? If yes, I'll be glad to discuss this with you more
in depth.
Best
D
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