Matthew Gray

Discussion of The Spot

This document is available at
http://www.mit.edu/people/mkgray/stuff/project/if/ps4.html

The spot is organized around journal entries of the various residents of a house known as The Spot. The very first entry is provided as a starting point:

Each entry has links to entries around the same time by each of the other residents at the bottom of the page. It provides a couple of ways to get monthly overviews. First is something called SpotGate, which is a summary written by their dog. Second is a calendar which allows you to jump directly to any journal entry for that month. Various ways of interacting with the characters are made available, including email and online discussion groups. The characters will respond to these interactions in their journal entries. Quite a bit of auxiliary material is provided organized as Attractions. This includes trading cards (with photos of their faces and butts), and photo albums including a Spot's Illustrated Swimsuit edition Finally, they provide an entry page for regular readers to get new journal entries and the like.