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Deliverable #4: Script (Anonymous Money)

Anonymous Money

Summary

Credibility: So far, you’ve managed to sell half of the Bitcoins to pay off your tuition, medical bills and copays. But you still have to spend the rest, as quickly as possible.

Plausibility: CAD$20,000 in Bitcoins was unexpectedly transferred into your Bitcoin wallet. Bitcoins are known as the "untraceable currency", but you’re still worried someone will come looking for them.

>> Opening Scene

It's 2015. Two years before Bitcoin reached its financial peak.

The first time I heard of Bitcoin, I thought investing in it was an idiots' tax. But I was a trendy 22-year old, so I decided to open a Bitcoin wallet.

From there, I really started to fall in love with the whole thing. The complete anonymity of transactions was amazing to me...

[[Continue->Deposit]]

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>> Deposit

Until last week, when CAD$20,000 in Bitcoins was (obviously mistakenly) transferred into my Bitcoin wallet.

It's been an excruciatingly long week, but nothing has happened. The coins are still there, and I'm becoming anxious-- borderline paranoid.

[[Continue->Untraceable]]

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>> Untraceable

Bitcoins are known as the "untraceable currency", but I know some baaad people will come looking for them.

Luckily, I've managed to sell half of the Bitcoins to pay my tuition, medical bills and copays. But I'm facing the eventuality of running out of things to buy.

[[Continue->Mission]]

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>> Mission

I still have to spend the rest, as quickly as possible. I just want to get my life back to normal.

But first, I still need to [[go to English lecture->Scene 1]]

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>> Scene 1

I'm sitting in lecture, and my phone goes off.

Of course, my phone wasn't on “DO NOT DISTURB” mode, so it buzzes loudly while receiving the message.

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

[[Pick up phone->Check first message]]

[[Ignore first message]]

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>> Check first message

My old instructor glares up at me while I check my texts from the back row.

It's from a number I don't recognize.

"ALL YOUR BITCOIN ARE BELONG TO US!"

[[Write a reply]]

[[Continue ignoring the message->Ignore message]]

[[Call the police->Phone The Police Early]]

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>> Write a reply

[["Sorry, wrong number"->Reply Innocent]]

[["What do you want"->Reply Guilty]]

[[Actually... Ignore the message->Ignore message]]

[[Actually... Call the police->Phone The Police Early]]

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>> Reply Guilty

"What do you want"

...

"RETURN THE FUNDS TO CRYPTO. FOR GREAT JUSTICE."

[[Leave lecture->Go Home (No Police)]]

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>> Reply Innocent

"Sorry, wrong number"

...

No response.

[[Put phone on silent->Ignore message]]

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>> Ignore Message

You silence your phone and put it back in your pocket.

The sound of everyone loudly zipping up their backpacks over the voice of the instructor signifies lecture is about to end.

You learned nothing, as usual.

[[Go Home (No Police)]]

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Go Home (No Police)

There's a small package on your doorstep... In an Amazon Prime box with duct tape. My name and bitcoin address 1Mz7153HMuxXTuR2R1t78mGSdzaAtNbBWX is written on that package.

[[Open the package]]

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>> Open the package (No Police)

Inside the package is a receipt a note.

"WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE. SEND 40 BITCOINS TO 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX"

[[Go inside to think->Go inside]]

[[Call the police->Phone The Police Late]]

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>> Phone The Police Late

The siren heard from a police car wailing pulled into my driveway. Was that really necessary?

They ended up not caring very much, but wrote down my contact information and the mystery number.

[[Go inside]]

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>> Go inside

You step inside. Nothing looks broken or out of place.

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>> Go Home (Yes Police)

There's a small package on your doorstep... In an Amazon Prime box with duct tape. My name and bitcoin address 1Mz7153HMuxXTuR2R1t78mGSdzaAtNbBWX is written on that package.

[[Open the package (Yes Police)]]

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>> Open the package (Yes Police)

Inside the package is a receipt a note.

"WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE. SEND 40 BITCOINS TO 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX"

[[Go inside to think->Go inside]]

[[Call the police->Phone The Police Again]]

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>> Phone The Police Again

The siren heard from a police car wailing pulled into my driveway. Was that really necessary?

It's the same officers, and this time they care. I get written the first ticket of my life, complete with a court date for wasting police time!

[[Fined]]

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>> Ignore first message

It buzzes again. It almost sounds louder than before.

[[Check first message]]

[[Ignore second message]]

[[Put phone on silent]]

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>> Put phone on silent

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>> Ignore second message

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>> Fined

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iat313group5-blog · 6 years ago

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Deliverable #3: Design Document

Scholarships Approved

Access

Visit https://scholarships-approved.com on any browser (does not exist yet).

Page Description

On Your First Visit:

The web page has a top-down view of an office desk. You are staring down at a large stack of scholarship applications, a green “approved” stamp, a red “denied” stamp, and some stray paperclips. You are prompted to interact with the stack of letters to begin reading your first application.

Return Visit:

You can restart at anytime by refreshing the webpage. Replay is encouraged. Because of the random selection of applicants, different behaviors can be exhibit given the same input.

Game play

Scholarships Approved is an interactive, point-and-click narrative inspired by Papers, Please, a game where a border security guard must review passports, and approve or deny a queue of immigrants. You were just contracted to handle all aspects of an entrance scholarship program at Arstotzka Community College. You must read through a queue of students' letters, and choose whether to approve or deny them. You have the unchecked power to decide who needs money more than others. But beware, funds are limited, and someone may notice if money goes missing.

Reward:

After successfully completing a day, you are given an “end of day report” or score card, detailing how your financial aid was spent by students.

Content Leveling

Game play is divided into 7 days (1 week). Each day your funds are renewed to budget or spend however you wish.

Day 1: An introduction to types of students. 2 scholarship letters to review; a fixed binary choice between a valedictorian and a procrastinator.

Day 2: More scholarship letters to review. 10 to review today, with more student types.

Day 3: Player has settled into the rhythm of game play. This day will introduce the first hard choices. The player may decide to give a scholarship to a poor student who desperately needs it, over someone who deserves it.

Day 4 to 7: A new random selection from a pool of scholarships every day. The player will be tested on responsible spending. The final day ends with an end of game report.

Game Play Leveling

On entering the Website:

The office desk is cleared, and gameplay instructions appear as a pop-up dialogue that can be dismissed.

Dim the lights of the webpage, to set the game in a “theatre mode”.

2. Introduction Functionality

Short introduction that explains the purpose of playing the game.

1. Can be dismissed once the player is finished reading the instructions.

2. Web-cookies could be stored locally, to only show instructions the first time a player visits this webpage.

Transition between levels

1. Between each day, a transition plays to display an end of day report card.

2. Calculate what students spent scholarship money on (rent, food, games, drugs, alcohol, etc.)

Short outro when game play is complete.

1. After 7 days, a final results screen is shown. The player can restart or reload the web page to play again.

3. Game play Interaction

Display

1. Stack of scholarship applications

Each scholarship has a pre-selected photo, name, high school GPA, interests, name of the scholarship, $ granted by the scholarship,

2. Green “approved” stamp

Is a button that can be clicked to approve the current application.

3. Red “denied” stamp

4. Stray paperclips

Decoration to decorate the virtual tabletop. Desk could include other non-interactive desk accessories.

5. Information HUD

Funds we have remaining in $, the # of scholarships in queue for that day Day #, the written scholarship (a few sentences), score on the screen, an inbox, and an outbox

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iat313group5-blog · 6 years ago

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Deliverable #2: Story Bible

Max Proske (301235293)

Chi Hang Li (Jason) (301243910)

So what’s the story? What apparent legal troubles could there be?

Idea #1 (Deliverable 1): You play the role of someone facing severe financial problems. Out of desperation, you take an office job that is suspiciously non-descriptive, and must follow this Photoshop tutorial web series for your training. The tutorial series begins innocently enough, by showing you various helpful tools and techniques in Photoshop, but gradually becomes more sinister. You soon realize you are working for the Mafia, when the tutorial explains how to Photoshop evidence out of a crime scene.

the character can be graduate design student. he is struggling some financial difficulties (maybe some school loans and unemployed)

So he decided to find some design related freelance through some website. Some websites like fiverr is the platform where the character met the Mafia member.

Timelines, Locations and descriptions

This story located in Vancouver, Canada in 2018.

Locations involve school (University), Home (In front of the computer)

It is because the story focuses on a graduate design student.

Character bios, Character descriptions

Name: Ben

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Hometown: Vancouver

Education: Visual Design Degree

Summary: Ben studied visual and art design in his undergraduate. However, he still can’t find a job after he graduate. Ben starts facing some financial difficulties because he is unemployed for a long time.

Items used in story

Mainly computer and screen. The conversation between characters are through internet. The tasks that Ben has to complete are also done on a PC.

Idea #2: You are a counter-terrorism intelligence intern, working at Flashpoint in New York, NY. You must research and analyze content from unindexed areas of the internet (Deep and Dark Web). https://www.indeed.com/q-Hacker-Intern-jobs.html?vjk=9461f0fb672e3d9f

Idea #3: You are in a Movie, and are helping a gang of criminals cover up a heist. You must Cover up easily identifiable tattoos

Idea #4: You want to learn Photoshop to live a dream digitally. For example, living with the Dinosaurs.

Do we want the plot to sound stressed and anxious like the web-series “You Suck At Photoshop?

Alright, here we go! Here are some scenarios and tools we could use:

Automate/Photomerge to compile a map of a flash drive's locations.

Annotations use the text and audio annotation tools by responding to a threat letter he found on his door.

Distort and warp to paste a copy of his marriage license over the driver's side of the van in which his wife was conducting a certain infidelity. Cover areas with cutting, pasting, and overlaying color, then making it look realistic with the eraser tool

Clone Stamp and Manual Cloning, a technique where similar nearby areas are cut and pasted and then blended in.

Paths and Masks to create clipping masks to simplify putting an imported graphic on a background. Select > Color Range to lift a complex object – a hammock – out of a background so that he can place it on a tropical beach graphic.

Filter-Liquefy to show how one might gradually distort an object to enlarge it. Not for the squeamish.

Patch Tool and Levels to fix areas and attempts to use the Levels tool to obscure scars/distinguishable tattoos

3D Layers to important 3D model file and treat it as a maskable object in Photoshop.

Curves to use two differently lighted images and make them look as though they belong in the same photos.

Vanishing Point to create a train big enough to take all his friends to a special place, mysteriously escaping the SWAT team who have come to evict him from his house.

Smart Objects to make changing multiple copies of a placed images quick and efficient. He does this in order to demonstrate that a certain child is not actually his.

Measurement Log (an obscure tool) to one-click recording of measurements and exporting of those measurements.

Displacement to create a map of the texture of the surface, and can map letters realistically onto a wrinkled soccer jersey. How to use the video features of Photoshop to edit yourself out of ten seconds of video camera footage.

Define Pattern to create an infinite soundproofing texture.

Define Brush Preset to define interesting brush presets

Shadows and Light to zoom in on the photo

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iat313group5-blog · 7 years ago

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Deliverable #1: Concept Document - Photoshop For Criminal Knowledge

Title: Photoshop For Criminal Knowledge

Subtitle: Having financial difficulty? Have you been implicated in a crime? Then this is the Photoshop tutorial for you!

Sentence length short description

A parody of Photoshop instructional videos, that demonstrates tools and techniques, with a dark, comedic narrative.

Paragraph description

You play the role of someone facing severe financial problems. Out of desperation, you take an office job that is suspiciously non-descriptive, and must follow this Photoshop tutorial web series for your training. The tutorial series begins innocently enough, by showing you various helpful tools and techniques in Photoshop, but gradually becomes more sinister. You soon realize you are working for the Mafia, when the tutorial explains how to Photoshop evidence out of a crime scene.

A couple paragraphs describing the overall concept in more detail

“Photoshop For Criminal Knowledge” is a short series of embedded Photoshop tutorials, based on the web series You Suck At Photoshop by Matt Bledsoe. In this web series, a fictional Photoshop user parodies YouTube Photoshop tutorials, by pulling a bait-and-switch. For example, teaching you how to use the distort tool, by manipulating the license plate number of your car in photo evidence. The comedy series was so popular, that it came back for a 2nd season by the demand of fans.

Some scenarios we would want to craft may start innocently with changing the time on the clock -- and escalate to covering up blood stains, and swapping someone’s face. When the user realizes they are working for the Mafia, they can choose to continue by following any of the expert difficulty tutorials. They can choose to continue to help the mafia, or give up once they realize what they have gotten themselves into.

Each tutorial will be a PDF, that the user can follow along with on a website, or print out. Each tutorial will have an assigned difficulty (novice, advanced, expert), each difficulty representing a node in how the tutorials become more sinister. This makes the narrative is multi-linear, because the PDFs can be read in any order, and they will each make sense as a standalone instructional.

The medium and all related media

“Photoshop For Criminal Knowledge” is an interactive Photoshop tutorial, that requires a computer with Photoshop CC and internet browser installed. The user can follow the tutorials however they want, but here is our expected setup:

A split-screen interactive website (or PDF document) shows the narrative content (some instruction with text and visual provided) on the left side of the screen. The screen on the right half the Photoshop application with the picture for editing purposes. All of the actions will be performed in the Photoshop application.

Strengths

The biggest strength of our project will be accessibility. The user can follow along with just an internet browser and Photoshop trial installed. To increase accessibility, we could even have an image editor (similar to Photoshop) embedded on the website, so it requires no downloads to play.

Weaknesses

The tutorial series will not be accessible to people browsing on devices that cannot run Photoshop. For example, we will not be able to effectively target smartphone or tablet devices. If we embed an image editor on the website, the mobile version website may be affected in an undesirable way. The interface experience (both visually and interacting by touching) will be different when browsing the website on a smartphone.

Previsualize the interface and provide concept sketches of what the experience will be like.

Resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Suck_At_Photoshop_(web_series)

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