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Trails of Graville
Get PDFA mobile game design for a casual audience created as a computer science senior capstone project. The game is a light-hearted adventure game with an overarching theme inspired by 1 Thessalonians 5:11. The game takes place centered around the titular small fantasy village of Graville. When an ordinary day turns into something quite a bit more than ordinary, the hero and their friends must go on a perilous adventure to prepare to defeat a coming evil that threatens to destroy the quiet town. This game was created using Unity over the course of around seven months
Medieval Minstrelsy: The Lives and Occupations of England\u27s Musical Professionals
Get PDFThroughout many centuries, the traveling musicians of medieval Europe have sparked interest in countless writers and poets, and the minstrels of England are no different. No novel from today’s medieval fantasy genre would be complete without a dragon, a knight, and a daring minstrel who carries in his tunes the secrets of millennia, traveling alone with more magic in his pocket than coins. Unfortunately, the evidence to suggest the existence of this minstrel is devastatingly lacking. The research that does exist, however, gleaned from court records and personal memoirs, paints a different picture and identifies him as not just a bard, but a qualified musician. The minstrels of medieval England were professionals in their fields, despite being considered low-class. They boasted notable skill for their time, filled a wide variety of jobs in the medieval world, and collaborated with one another in troupes and unions to establish protected careers for themselves and other musicians. While history still leaves room for debate between what one could call the realists and the hopefuls, each hoping to fill the gaps in time with normalcy or romance, there can be no doubt about the professional nature of the English minstrels’ lives and careers
What\u27s in a Sign? A Challenge to Augustine’s Expressionist Semiotics
Get PDFExpressionist semiotics is a philosophy of signs which claims that signs, like words, carry meanings independent of the signs themselves. The meaning exists before it is expressed, and the sign carries it like a basket holding apples; the sign is a mere tool for accessing and transferring an invisible reality. This theory shows up in both philosophy and theology, with roots in Augustine\u27s On Christian Teaching and branching into modern linguistics, in thinkers like Saussure. It assumes that reality is prior to and independent of the signs used to describe it. This paper challenges that assumption. Thinkers like Johnson and Lakoff have shown that expressionism fails to explain key aspects of language use, and linguistic relativists have raised questions that expressionism cannot answer. However, a semiotic theory which refuses to divide sign and signified may resolve these problems. This paper suggests the signs we have and use create reality as we know it. Without signs for reality, humans would have no conception of it and no meaningful access to it. This articulation of semiotics has significant theological implications, such as offering a richer understanding of human participation in God through creation
Character Amnesia: The Sociolinguistic Implications of Writing Fluency With Mandarin Chinese Speakers
Get PDFSince the 21st century, numerous Chinese speakers have been struggling with writing fluency in their language, primarily due to forgetting how to write Chinese characters. This phenomenon, otherwise known as character amnesia (提笔忘字), has resulted from multiple logographic factors such as technology, the orthographic system, and pinyin (拼音). Historically, Chinese culture views Chinese characters not just as their writing system but as ancient art and history. This paper will look into the contemporary views of how character amnesia has impacted Chinese culture through this research question: Do Mandarin speakers believe that character amnesia impacts Chinese cultural identity or people’s overall understanding of Chinese culture? The research conducted through interviews in this article reveals that (not available yet). This article will also suggest a few future outcomes of character amnesia for the Chinese language and Chinese speakers
