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Hello SF0 players. I made this account so that you can upload photos, which may be inserted into comments, without necessarily tying them to any particular praxis. The login information for this account is photobucket - everydaylife. Please just upload photos to the Player Photograph here, and the SF0 website will assign it a permanent URL you can access by clicking on "view file" for your uploaded photo.
Gameplay
Play the game by completing tasks and proving that you have completed them. Each task has a set of instructions, a score, a required level, a group (or multiple groups) and a number of players. Your goal in SFZero is to complete tasks according to the instructions, using your creativity, skills, guile, and imagination. Once you complete a task and submit your proof, you will earn points equal to the score of that task. By earning points, you go up in level and gain access to more tasks, as well as other, undisclosable features of the game. If you can't sign up for a task it means that you are not at the required level. You must complete more tasks at your current level in order to LEVEL UP!
Guidelines (tips for new players)
1. Document your tasks well! The more pictures you take and the more thorough and interesting your descriptions, the more other players will appreciate your cool task completion.
2. Choose a few easy tasks that strike your fancy (you can always find a list of suggested tasks on your updates page) and take a shot at them right away. You'll be surprised at how fun and strangely satisfying the game can be.
3. Make a few new tasks of your own. Think of interesting things you've always wanted to do, or things you'd like to see someone else do, or personal actions or experiences you feel other players would enjoy doing or having. SFZero is at its best when you're not only playing it, but also creating it. Plus, think of how excellent it will be when a stranger completes your task!
4. Make friends or foes. If you see a player you know, or whose task completions you like, add them as your friend. And collaborate with them! Working on tasks together with other players is possibly the most fun you can have in SFZero. All it really takes is a nice message and a meet-up time. Don't be shy; it's not rocket science.
5. Don't be intimidated by the task completions of other players. No task is ever completed so well that it doesn't need to be done again by you, in a novel way.
Completed Tasks
Friends
- Ben Yamiin
- Jellybean of Thark
- Tøm
- Adam
- Not Here No More
- teucer
- Myrna Minx
- TEA
- done
- Evil Sugar
- Waldo Cheerio
- Peter Garnett
- The Found Walrus
- artmouse
- lefthandedsnail
- Morte
- Harry Lee
- Scooter Vagabond
- Captain Cutthroat
Terms
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Or are you going to play 16 with us and claim you didn't see anything?
We want answers now or we want them eventually!
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(1)
"A drop of thunder at that instant shook
[and in my shaking hands, a glowing book]
the castle to its foundations, the earth rocked"
[so rocked my mind. Imagine and concoct
a whole new form of art, inflamed,
fantastic, and as yet unnamed].
(2)
"I collected the instruments of life around me
[again and again this new art found me]
that I might infuse a spark of being
[a new form of thought, a new way of seeing]
into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."
(3)
"And now we rushed into the embraces
[new forms of time, new forms of spaces]
of a cataract, where a chasm threw
[a fabulous view that was utterly true]
itself open to receive us. But their arose
[suppose this is more than merely prose?]
in our pathway, a shrouded human figure."
(4)
"I was carried through infinite space.
[ripped from the womb of the commonplace]
My body was volatilized in turn...
[while every neuron began to burn]
tracing their flaming orbits through infinity."
(5)
"Dim and wonderful is the vision
[irrevocable is the decision]
I have conjured up in my mind
[always before, I had been blind]
of life spreading slowly from this little seed-bed
[beyond all need, beyond all dread]
of the solar system, throughout the inanimate
vastness of sidereal space."
(6)
"Is there a sea of this conscious force
[the source of life, the ultimate source]
which laps the shores of the far-flung stars
[from my home town past the planet Mars]
that finds expression in everything
[and gives creation a voice to sing]
man and rock, metal and flower, jewel and cloud?"
(7)
"Could I but rotate my arm
[with a four-dimensional charm]
out of the limits set to it
[there's the catch: how to get to it?]
I could thrust it into a thousand universes."
(8)
"From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of Space -- Out of Time."
(9)
"We live in a placid island of ignorance
in the midst of black seas of infinity."
(10)
"A being, whom you would call a future man
[Olympian, Promethian, Utopian]
has seized the docile but scarcely adequate brain
[of a host, transfigured, practically insane]
of your contemporary, and is trying to direct
[connect, elect, infect, protect]
its familiar processes for an alien purpose.
Thus a future epoch makes contact with your age....
We can help you, and we need your help."
(11)
" 'She flies!' he cried exultantly, 'She flies,
[and so our dreams in metal crystallize]
dearest, like a ray of light for speed
[and so the word at last becomes the deed]
and like a bit of thistledown for lightness
[we recognize the power and the rightness]
We've been around the moon!' "
(12)
"A glorious picture of an empire that lies
[the world beyond the hill, beyond the skies]
away past a million flaming suns
[this stunning vision ever onward runs]
until it reaches the black infinity
[where life begins, within the cosmic pond]
of unknown space,
and extends beyond..."
Notes: The quotations below, which form the 12 windows of the hypertext poem,
appear successively in The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the
Search for Transcendence, Alexei & Cory Panshin, Tarcher, 1989, pp.13, 25, 35,
49, 116, 151, 158, 166, 166, 199, 208, 234
(1) The Castle of Otronto, Sir Horace Walpole, 1764
(2) Frankenstein, or the New Prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
1818
(3) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Edgar Allan Poe, 1837
(4) Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne, 1864
(5) The War of the Worlds, Herbert George Wells, 1898
(6) The Metal Monster, Abraham Grace Merritt, 1920
(7) Men Like Gods, Herbert George Wells, 1923
(8) "Dreamland", Edgar Allan Poe, inspired name of magazine
Weird Tales for J.C.Henneberger, 1923
(9) The Call of Cthulhu, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1928
(10) Last and First Men, Dr. William Olaf Stapledon, 1930
(11) Skylark of Space, Dr. Edward Elmer Smith, 1928
(12) "Scientifiction, Searchlight of Science", essay by
Dr. Jack S. Williamson, Fall 1928 Amazing Stories Quarterly