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For "politics sake", Fafifi needed to be in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_waters international waters] and so a location of S27°14.62' E162°45.21' (for the centre of the island) was settled upon. This is south in the Coral Sea between [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Howe_Island Lord Howe Island] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia New Caledonia]. |
For "politics sake", Fafifi needed to be in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_waters international waters] and so a location of S27°14.62' E162°45.21' (for the centre of the island) was settled upon. This is south in the Coral Sea between [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Howe_Island Lord Howe Island] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia New Caledonia]. |
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[[File:Location of Fafifi from GoogleMaps Co-ordinates.JPG|800px|alt=A screen shot of a Google Maps image with a heart symbol marking the location of the island of Fafifi|The heart symbol marks the location of the Island of Fafifi]]. Thanks to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_(2020_video_game) MSFS 2020] addon creator and commercial pilot, '''Mike (More Right Rudder)''' who consulted on this endeavour in the [https://flybywiresim.com/ FBW] Discord server. One benefit of this location is that it avoids Japanese & American World War II incursions into Fafifi's back story. |
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Revision as of 01:12, 22 June 2022
Introduction & Background
The idea to create an island came in the second phase of MOMA's development which happened in 2022 when David Rose found confidence to fully embrace the idea of integrating gaming into the WIKIMOMA Community Arts Project. The initial phase in 2021 saw the development of the Protocols of MOMA with very basic, mostly low-key, role-playing elements; a couple of examples being, (1) people who didn't consider themselves artists making artwork at proposed museum art workshops and contributing the works to the museum, or (2) participants playing the role of curator by assembling exhibitions to be shown in structures created according to the Protocols. When Princess Tahini of Patonga saw David flight simming, she got all excited and said she wanted to play being a flight attendant. That got David thinking about creating an addon to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 that could have cabin crew - it seemed only natural there to have somewhere special to fly to. So began the dreaming of the Island of Fafifi. The name Patonga was first given to this idea, but David became uncomfortable with it's potential to be related to the people of Tonga, so a fictitious name was invented - that in a rather camp way nodded to, and homaged, the Fa'afafine of Samoa (hoping quite ferociously that non of them would be offended).
Location
For "politics sake", Fafifi needed to be in international waters and so a location of S27°14.62' E162°45.21' (for the centre of the island) was settled upon. This is south in the Coral Sea between Lord Howe Island and New Caledonia.
. Thanks to MSFS 2020 addon creator and commercial pilot, Mike (More Right Rudder) who consulted on this endeavour in the FBW Discord server. One benefit of this location is that it avoids Japanese & American World War II incursions into Fafifi's back story.
Size, Shape & Topography
The size, shape and topography of the island have been conceived whilst playing with form in Blender - the free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset. A pleasing shape was almost randomly generated by playing with settings in Blender's landscape addon, which generated a form shown below.
