Early Video Games; Text-Based Games; Zork

Please turn in your Atari review article. This is due today.

Crash Course #5: The First Home Consoles (7 min.)
Crash Course #6: The Video Game Crash of 1983 (11 min.)

Add notes on your graphic organizer for this topic. You will turn in your notes today for participation credit. 

• Please read the article: Text Based Games (a short history). And a vlog review...hint, hint.

Also Read & Take Notes on:

Choose your own adventure books (CYOA) began to arrive in the late 1970's (particularly from Bantam Books) to entice younger readers. The role-playing industry was just getting started. For more history on fantasy role playing games, check here. More information about Choose Your Own Adventure books can be found here.

Then, 

Ready, Player One?

Use one of the Chromebooks to play Zork. First, let's get some context for this 1980's computer game hit: Tapping into the Origins of Zork. Here's a pop culture reference from the Big Bang Theory.

 Use the handout tips to help you adventure. Play Zork.

HOMEWORK: None. Play an interactive fiction game to see how it works.

• Zork (text based game)
• Adventure (text based game)
• Jigsaw (text based game)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (text based game)
• Various Infocom online games

EXTRA CREDIT: (ongoing...MP2 ends Jan. 31)

Learn and create your own video games. Use this link to Chrome: Gamestar Mechanic and visit their website to see what you might be able to do. You might have to sign up for an account (use your student ID, etc.) to move further with this.

or use Gamefroot.com

or GameMaker (there's a cost for this one)

or Unreal Engine

or...look for one that doesn't cost anything, that is relatively easy to learn, and that you can share with your classmates. If you find a good site, please drop a comment with the site's URL in the COMMENT section below.