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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Teal wrote:</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I think everyone is missing Doug's point. He was saying</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> he didn't want to impose 'Geekness' on his son. Think of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> it as a child from a different clan. If he comes over to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> join your fire, cool. If not cool.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I agree. That's what I was trying to hint at anyway.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Did you guess? I happen to be reading a book on this topic: "Punished by Rewards" by Alfie Kohn. Sorry for the diatribe...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>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. </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>It sounded like Doug's kid might be interested in:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.rickadams.org/adventure" TARGET="_blank">http://www.rickadams.org/adventure</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> or</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.if-legends.org%7EAdventure/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.if-legends.org%7EAdventure/</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> or</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.ifarchive.org" TARGET="_blank">http://www.ifarchive.org</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Where he could read about and download the source for the grand-daddy of computer based interactive storytelling. I liked this quote:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>"Playing adventure games without tackling this one is like being an English major who's never glanced at Shakespeare." -- Steven Levy</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>If he'd like to read about ScummVM, an ongoing game emulator project for classic adventure games:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/08/21/scummvm.html" TARGET="_blank">http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/08/21/scummvm.html</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>The link to the project in the article should be <A HREF="http://www.scummvm.org" TARGET="_blank">http://www.scummvm.org</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>If he'd like to work with an existing text adventure development system, he might try:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.tads.org" TARGET="_blank">http://www.tads.org</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>If you want to do something using Perl... you might check out some of these articles:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Pearls of Perl</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>A Perl intro preparing the reader to write an Adventure Game</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.svs.com/djr01//PoP/PoP.html" TARGET="_blank">http://www.svs.com/djr01//PoP/PoP.html</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Adventure in Perl has been a fairly recent topic on the Perl Monks</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=378371" TARGET="_blank">http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=378371</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>VoiceXML Adventure Game</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.webreference.com/perl/tutorial/21" TARGET="_blank">http://www.webreference.com/perl/tutorial/21</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>tktetris (Perl/tk)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19921" TARGET="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19921</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>M.J. Dominus' Perl Paraphernalia (last updated 4.9.2003)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>promises source for an Adventure clone "coming soon"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://backpan.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MJ/MJD/" TARGET="_blank">http://backpan.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MJ/MJD/</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The New Adventure Shell</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Skinning a UN*X shell to look like Adventure using Perl</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://nadvsh.sourceforege.net" TARGET="_blank">http://nadvsh.sourceforege.net</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>--</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Garrett Goebel</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>IS Development Specialist</FONT>
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