Or perhaps even civilisation or some historical wargame/strtegy game i.e Steel Panthers. You could use Typing of the Dead to teach keyboard skills or do these count as violent and could be disturbing to their fragile little minds. Though quite how it will help is beyond me. What do you want to teach these people? How to use a computer or how to play games?
To me these books are the equivalent of the story telling that happens in games at the moment. Read straight through(a kid in the back of a car can't really throw dice) they are rather simplistic and not exactly fun, the only joy came out of the actual participation. Not through the story. Take Ultima Underworld, the story was put to the back, the joy was in the travelling through the world, the joy was making the story for yourself, using your imagination. This is what makes a great game. A set of toys, a set of devices which enables the player to interact with the given world which though has an ultimate goal, the path to that goal is not dictated.
The amount of times I've played a game to a point and then had to fervently click a button to get through the cut-scenes simply so that I can get back to the proper business of playing the game, gets me quite depressed. I don't play a game so that I can listen to the developers story, I play a game so that I can devise my own. Sure give me pointers to the characters but don't tell me a story, let me devise my own.
Star Office was initially developed for commercial use, though for some reason it came out with all the necessary qualities of free software. It feels cheap, tacky and discomforting to use. It has a polyester feel and the lifespan of a post-it.
People like a piece of software that they regularily use to have a solid feel, most people don't care if the software is full of bloat, what they care about is whether the function they need is there, if it isn't then they kick up a fuss. Otherwise, why would'nt people use Notepad instead?
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Could the person who drops the vile be thrown in jail for practicing medcine without a liscence ?
Bloody hell you need to have a license to have a shuffle now?
Do you need to go on a safety course before you can get one?
How do they police it? Callous measurements? Eye examinations? Anxiety tests?
Keep it free man, release your anguish. Fight for your rights to take matters into your own hands.
Anyway, I'm off to practise some good medicine.
Or perhaps even civilisation or some historical wargame/strtegy game i.e Steel Panthers. You could use Typing of the Dead to teach keyboard skills or do these count as violent and could be disturbing to their fragile little minds. Though quite how it will help is beyond me. What do you want to teach these people? How to use a computer or how to play games?
To me these books are the equivalent of the story telling that happens in games at the moment. Read straight through(a kid in the back of a car can't really throw dice) they are rather simplistic and not exactly fun, the only joy came out of the actual participation. Not through the story. Take Ultima Underworld, the story was put to the back, the joy was in the travelling through the world, the joy was making the story for yourself, using your imagination. This is what makes a great game. A set of toys, a set of devices which enables the player to interact with the given world which though has an ultimate goal, the path to that goal is not dictated.
The amount of times I've played a game to a point and then had to fervently click a button to get through the cut-scenes simply so that I can get back to the proper business of playing the game, gets me quite depressed. I don't play a game so that I can listen to the developers story, I play a game so that I can devise my own. Sure give me pointers to the characters but don't tell me a story, let me devise my own.
Star Office was initially developed for commercial use, though for some reason it came out with all the necessary qualities of free software. It feels cheap, tacky and discomforting to use. It has a polyester feel and the lifespan of a post-it. People like a piece of software that they regularily use to have a solid feel, most people don't care if the software is full of bloat, what they care about is whether the function they need is there, if it isn't then they kick up a fuss. Otherwise, why would'nt people use Notepad instead?