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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