[kidsgames] Re: the younger set

[Rob <Shadow@info66.com>]

I don't have any links handy but I was going to check out a text story engine
for games called "HUGO". I was going to see if it would work for history
lessons along the line of the commercial game "Oregon Trail". From what I know
of it and similar engines it can be text only or text with a 1/4 page picture.
I image these could also be used for interactive fiction story's. I got the idea
from an article on slash-dot and there are  plenty of links there.
Robert
On 29-Sep-99 Doug Loss wrote:
> Paul Kienzle wrote:
> This is a great idea!  How about adding the possibility of having it
> work as a decision tree rather than just as a linear story.  I'm
> thinking of the "create your own adventure" books, where the reader has
> to choose between 2-3 alternatives at the end of each short segment;
> each choice directs him or her to a different page with a different
> result.  This allows a bunch of ways to traverse the tree, generating
> different stories each time.
> 
>> More ambitious types could create "A day in the life of" book series,
>> showing an individual going about their day.  You could use this for
>> teaching history (how does technology change day-to-day life) and culture
>> (how do people in different parts of the world live).
> 
> This might be an especially useful idea if it's easy for children to
> enter the data by themselves or with the help of teachers.  A class in
> Ghana (for example) could create "a day in the life of a Ghanan student"
> and exchange it with the equivalent daily life visions of classes in
> Mongolia or Venezuela.  I say classes, but individuals with the
> necessary equipment could do it just as well.
> 
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