{"id":1427,"date":"2007-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1427"},"modified":"2015-08-14T05:50:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T05:50:49","slug":"getting-comfortable-with-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/getting-comfortable-with-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Comfortable with Gaming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/images\/2007-06-18_samorost_grab.jpg\" alt=\"Samorost Grab\" height=\"172\" width=\"440\"><br  \/>Three years ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/pivot\/entry.php?id=17\">noticed a Strange &#8216;Game&#8217;<\/a>, (the game is no longer at the url links from that post).<br  \/>I played the game for a few minutes and got nowhere, it looked lovely so I just linkdumped it for my class and forgot about it.<br  \/>Recently I&#8217;ve saw mention of it (on <a href=\"http:\/\/kpericles.edublogs.org\/2007\/06\/03\/samorost\/\">KimP&#8217;s Blog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/edu.blogs.com\/edublogs\/2007\/05\/samorost_set_as.html\" title=\"Ewan MacIntosh\">Ewan&#8217;s<\/a>) so I looked again. It still looked cool and I still got not very far.<br  \/>This afternoon, I was delaying going to music (my least favourite bit of the curriculum) so I fired up <a href=\"http:\/\/analogik.com\/multimedia_samorost.asp\" title=\"Samorost\">Samorost<\/a> on to the wall and gathered the children round.<br  \/>They had a ball, giving me advice and solving the puzzles to work through the game. As a class they took about the same time as Ewan and a <a href=\"http:\/\/edu.blogs.com\/edublogs\/2007\/05\/samorost_set_as.html#comment-70925064\">lot faster than Derek<\/a><img src='https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/pivotx\/includes\/emoticons\/trillian\/e_121.gif' alt=';-)' \/><\/p>\n<p>I realise that there are lot of areas (as well as music) that I don&#8217;t get. I recall getting the first version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystworlds.com\/us\/\">Myst<\/a> along with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HyperCard\">HyperCard<\/a> 2.3 and not getting that at all, I spent a wee bit of time wandering in an aimless fashion then a good deal more time gently hacking into the game to check out it&#8217;s Hypercard roots.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway there is not much time left this session and we are getting a refresh of hardware tomorrow which might slow thing up, but  I hope to get my class to follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/allstars.edublogs.org\/2007\/06\/14\/super-samorost\/#comments\">AllStars progress using Samorost<\/a> and perhaps replicate some of their activities> I might get  to see what I can get out of this type of gaming. Moving a little way out of my comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p>(Note to self <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samorost.net\/samorost2\/\">Samorost2<\/a>, thanks Ewan).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ttags\">technorati: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/games\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">games<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/literacy\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">literacy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">blogging<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/samorost\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">samorost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago I noticed a Strange &#8216;Game&#8217;, (the game is no longer at the url links from that post).I played the game for a few minutes and got nowhere, it looked lovely so I just linkdumped it for my class and forgot about it.Recently I&#8217;ve saw mention of it (on KimP&#8217;s Blog and Ewan&#8217;s) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,21,111,386,385],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-classroom","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-literacy","11":"tag-samorost","12":"kind-","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-n1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}