Topic: Is it just me or do most teachers not understand adventure games...

[Gemmalah]

OK apart from the adults who play games all the time most don't have a clue.

For example i brought my game to school on a CD (finally) and my teachers were really impressed when the charactors could walk and talk, let alone all the other, nifty things i put in, like animations and a secret room!

I recon If i made a one room game where the charactor walks on the sky they would still be impressed.  
By the way saving another post do you think that if i say
"sorry as this is only a demo you cannot save"
 Like in flight of the amason queen demo, it would be acceptable as my gui just isn't working and there isn't much to the gameplay yet.

and how do I get people to review my game! I need them to do it to finish my project for school! I would be very grateful and would review some back over christmas if mum allows.

[Nacho]

[Femme Stab Mode >:D]

I gave my friend a game I made, Slime. He couldn't work out a way to move the character.

[Gemmalah]

WEll i'm not annoyed at the reaction but i did get a little annoyed when they were so enthralled by talking to people and walking about that i couldn't show them the REAL good stuff that took the longest. I really wanted to show that stuff off. And ok i'll leave it to the forum to give big crits yay.

 dragon slayers on a forum near you soon. (just when I get that bug fixed!)

[Interference]

I think your teachers were impressed with the fact you made the game, not the game alone. People just don't realise you don't need to be Eidos to release a game these days, believing games creation is shrouded in some dark veil of complex programming and fiddly artwork.

[SSH]

Speaking as someone whose game will have fiddly artwork and complex programming, I demand you take that back!  

[Mods]

I remember me and my friend made an interactive Church thing on QBasic for Religious Studies once, basically it drew a few lines and said "Alter" and then "Organ" and the teacher was like OMFG!!!11 A+ !11

So yes, it seems that teachers can be easily impressed.

Then I made a Martin Luther King thing in Delphi and got another A+.

God bless the ability to program crap!

[SSH]

and the teacher was like OMFG!

your Religious Studies teacher swore and blasphemed in the same expression?!!?!  I'll just email HM Inspector of Schools...

[Interference]

You made an electric Martin Luther King? Genius! Think of the possibilities: your very own cyber-Ghandi, scouring your e-mails for spam! Replacing that bloody MS Paperclip with Mother Teresa. We could even bring back Elvis as a password memoriser!

An electric Martin Luther, on the other hand, would be crap. You'd never get a PC to cut down Christmas trees.

[SSH]

I googled to find out if anyone had already done these, and I came across this. I really can't work out if this is a joke or not. I CAN'T believe this is for real!

http://www.cstones.com/html/luther__the_reformation.html

However, you could get Luther-themed Post-It notes?

[Meowster]

Yes, that is PRECISELY why I sold BR for my mini company project. Even though all the people who bought it couldn't even move the character or pick things up. It was awesome.

[gandalf654]

All teachers just don't get adventure games(well neither does my mother)

[Eggie]

[MrColossal]

I thought it was quite cute when I found out one of my teachers played Metal Gear Solid on the playstation. He even asked my friend and I for help [beating Psycho Mantis that is].

My parents played adventure games and I'm sure tons of teachers played them too. You just have to remind them that at one point in their life they held the Wishbringer stone and wished for a hint on how to get past that damned poodle.

eric

[AGA]

It was my mother who introduced me to adventure games originally, so she definitely knows how they work...

[Domino]

my father is a retired teacher and introduced me to the wonderful world of adventure games. He bought Kings Quest 1 many years ago, and showed me it when i was a kid.

But my father never really cared about adventure games then, or even now. So i guess (in my case) that most teachers don't understand adventure games.

Even when i used to program adventure games in BASIC many years ago on my old Tandy computer, he never really cared for them (games i made) and would criticize them to the point that i just wanted to give up. oh well.

Shawn  

[FruitTree]

my choirmaster is a mad adventure game fan,
as a matter of fact me and him are probably going to make a game someday  

[remixor]

My secret to success in high school?  PowerPoint.

[Trapezoid]

AGA's mother introduced me to all sorts of adventures, and games.

[shbaz]

Powerpoint is the secret to success in college presentations too, if you can use it well.  In my engineering class we were told to bring transparencies in to detail our missile designs and explain them to the class.  The lecture hall had two projectors and screens so I used them both and made models on blender, the other guys drew on the transparencies with markers!