Animal Crossing-ness
Monday, November 20, 2017
8:46 PM
The similarities NuBNO has to Animal Crossing:
You can choose to be part of a "Community", the equivalent to Animal Crossing's villages
Communities are a sub-net conglomeration of the users' "Netspaces," the equivalent to AC houses
A community subnet is like the overworld village area of an AC town, where you can see other users' houses and related establishments. It does not have a fixed geographical location in the "Overnet."
Each user's Netspace is customizable.
Each user's Netspace has a door to their section of the geographical "Overnet."
Each user can optionally set up multiple "Basement Rooms" accessible from their house/webspace.
Basement rooms represent direct, remote data access to the user's files on a PC, server, or other device of their own.
To enable a Basement Room, a Basement Door must be installed on the device with the files they wish to access.
Basement rooms are highly secure, and require encryption and codes to access.
Basement rooms organize the user's file system, for the designated part of their storage, like a library - shelves of files/filing cabinets/books where pages are the files themselves, perhaps. Think of it as a more physical, tangible version of SpaceMonger's storage graphs.
Basements and basement rooms can be made public. A Shaper (See "The Overnet") can make their own basement rooms public and put a portal on the Overnet. Alternatively, standard users may have the opportunity to provide basement portals within their communities, or can at least make them accessible from within their home/webspace.
Each user has a "Temporal Quarter," or TQ, which represents the file system of the device they are logged in from.
Useful for transferring items from the Basement.
Items appear "pixelated" and mosaic-y when brought out of their basement room. (Held above the player's head?)
A transforming animation clears said pixelation (from top-to-bottom?) to illustrate a file transfer/copy.
File copies have some distinguishing characteristic versus originals/transfers, such as a certain color or other visual element.