[Kc] FW: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #17 (hangman)

[Garrett Goebel]

Teal wrote:
> 
> I think everyone is missing Doug's point. He was saying
> he didn't want to impose 'Geekness' on his son. Think of
> it as a child from a different clan. If he comes over to
> join your fire, cool. If not cool.

I agree. That's what I was trying to hint at anyway.

Parenting and mentoring are hard. Whether you're enticing them with a carrot
or a stick, if you attempt to entice someone to do something at odds with
their personal motivations... you're in effect attempting to manipulate and
control them. People tend to react rather negatively when they feel
manipulated. Which is why pushing people in any direction tends to decrease
their intrinsic motivation.

Did you guess? I happen to be reading a book on this topic: "Punished by
Rewards" by Alfie Kohn. Sorry for the diatribe...

The best you can hope to do is listen carefully to your kids, try to figure
out the passions that fuel and motivate them, and provide a little kindling.



It sounded like Doug's kid might be interested in:

http://www.rickadams.org/adventure
  or
http://www.if-legends.org%7EAdventure/
  or
http://www.ifarchive.org

Where he could read about and download the source for the grand-daddy of
computer based interactive storytelling. I liked this quote:

"Playing adventure games without tackling this one is like being an English
major who's never glanced at Shakespeare." -- Steven Levy


If he'd like to read about ScummVM, an ongoing game emulator project for
classic adventure games:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/08/21/scummvm.html
The link to the project in the article should be http://www.scummvm.org


If he'd like to work with an existing text adventure development system, he
might try:
http://www.tads.org


If you want to do something using Perl... you might check out some of these
articles:

Pearls of Perl
A Perl intro preparing the reader to write an Adventure Game
http://www.svs.com/djr01//PoP/PoP.html

Adventure in Perl has been a fairly recent topic on the Perl Monks
http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=378371

VoiceXML Adventure Game
http://www.webreference.com/perl/tutorial/21

tktetris (Perl/tk)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19921

M.J. Dominus' Perl Paraphernalia (last updated 4.9.2003)
promises source for an Adventure clone "coming soon"
http://backpan.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MJ/MJD/

The New Adventure Shell
Skinning a UN*X shell to look like Adventure using Perl
http://nadvsh.sourceforege.net


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