Squeaky's Boots
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Fri May 18 20:25:30 UTC 2001
Kevin Fisher <kgf at golden.net> wrote:
>
> I was taking a trip down memory lane today and I remembered a fantastic little
> educational program done by the Learning Company back in the early 80's called
> "Rocky's Boots". Anyone remember this one?
>
> It was a really nifty little educational game that taught the fundamentals of
> logic gates, encouraging the student to pull together switches, wires, klaxons
> and gates into simple logic "machines" that would sort colours and polygons
> and such. If the student was successful, Rocky the Raccoon would come out and
> dance a little jig.
>
> Anyway, I was wondering...does anyone know of anything in a similar spirit for
> Squeak?
Oh yeah. Well, I actually played Robot Odyssey, which is vpretty
similar. Despite Robot Odyssey being an educational game, I've never
found a computer game as enjoyable. (Nobody told me I was supposed to
be learning something. It's just a great game if you like
programming!)
I meant for a long time to try and revitalize Robot Odyssey in Squeak,
but never really got around to it. There *is* a Java project running,
though, which might be of interest:
http://www.droidquest.com
Droid Quest is a *very* close clone, however. There's plenty of room to
make a system in the same spirit as Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey, but
making improvements; for example, the old games and Droid Quest don't
really use this new-fangled "mouse" device at all....
Lex
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