Adventure Games
I wouldn’t consider myself a “gamer” by any stretch of the imagination. Just watch me try to play Halo – I’ll run around in circles, button-jamming before somebody mercifully puts me out of my misery....
View ArticleA Few Things Drama Can Bring to Computer Science
So, yesterday I wrote: [W]hat can Drama bring to Computer Science? The easy one is presentation/communication skills. A CS student might be brilliant, but that doesn’t mean they can present or...
View ArticlePossible Applications for my Adventure Game Obsession – Part 1
If you don’t know this already, I really dig adventure games. Seriously. Just click these words to see how much I dig them. And I keep running into adventure game stuff in the most unexpected places....
View ArticleTeaching Your Dog Tricks Through a Glass Window: The 10/Gui Interface as an...
Adventure game developers have tried a bunch of ways of making it easy to control characters in 3d environments. Myst stuck with the basic point and click. Grim Fandango used the numpad on the...
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Monkey Island 1: The Secret of Monkey Island running via Javascript
Some fine fellow has written some Javascript that runs one of my favourite games in the browser. I just watched the opening cutscene of Monkey Island in Firefox! It’s still a bit buggy, but it’s a...
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ScummVM ported to HTML5?
This was just brought to my attention, and I’m pretty stoked! I haven’t actually looked at the source or done much in the way of investigation, but if it’s legit, then this is really, really exciting....
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