Here’s how to create your own “Taroko Gorge” remix in # easy steps (stolen from Leonardo Flores‘ Digital Creative Writing Course, original post on November 21, 2014)
You will need:
- A computer – smartphones and tablets aren’t good for this kind of job.
- A plain text editor – word processing programs won’t work because they add code to the text. (Mac users have TextEdit)
- A JavaScript debugger – (I’m partial to JSLint)
- A service to host an HTML page.
Instructions:
- Open “Taroko Gorge.“
- Right click (or Ctrl-click if a Mac user) on the poem to view the source code.
- Save the source code on your computer.
- Open the source code in text editor.
- Change the data for the variables.
- Open file in browser to see generated results.
- Revise if necessary. Debug if necessary.
- Name your remix, changing title, filename, background colors, list of names, images, etc.
- Link back to Taroko Gorge, adding your name below Nick Montfort’s name.
- Upload remixed file to Web hosting service.