AGS in Education - Done!

[rozojc]

Hi everyone,

I have used AGS in the past, although I confess to be one of the users who has never actually finished creating a game... But, since I am an IT teacher, I decided to teach some students how to do it!

I live in Bogotá, Colombia (South America, just in case, and I don't mean to be rude by clarifying continent), and work at a bilingual (English/Spanish) Highschool. Our kids in 9th grade have to develop an IT project, in which they have to use their IT skills to create a "product" that tries to solve a "problem". In this particular case, they were asked to use their IT skills to come up with a product that would somehow help show foreigners what Colombia is like, and how it is not at all as how the International news channels show it.

Students had the option of choosing what they wanted to do. Some of them decided to work on a video, some on web pages, and I convinced some to work on creating a video game using AGS!

They worked hard on this, and although their games are not quite there yet, I did wanted to place a post telling our story!

I am currently looking for a free place to host the "zip" files, in order to add them to the database, and (hopefully) get some of you to play them (even if just for curiosity).

Do you have any opinions towards this? We'd like to hear them! Are there any other teachers out there? Have you done something like this? Do you think something like AGS could be included in an IT curriculum as a more fun way to introduce programming concepts?

Oh, a screenshot for you to see (this was one of the best ones):
You gotta love his South Park version of "Juan Valdez" (in his game, you are Juan Valdez, the character that represents Colombian Coffee, and you have to deliver some coffee, reason why you go around Colombia)

[auriond]

Haha, this looks great! I'm a teacher too and I've thought of using AGS in my teaching as well.

Since the scripting in AGS is not that difficult, and it's quite similar to existing programming languages out there, I think AGS is a great intro to programming. Who knows, you might even get the younger generation interested in adventure games again

I've PMed you about the webspace. Looking forward to seeing your students' work here!

[paolo]

This is a brilliant idea!

I'm sure we'd all love to see your pupils' work. When they upload their games, make sure you include links to them in the AGS database so we can all play them!

EDIT: auriond, I can see you are a teacher. You used the plural possessive correctly

[rozojc]

Thanks for the feedback! I actually didn't get the PM with the info on hosting... hopefully we can upload them this week, and include them in the AGS database...

[auriond]

I resent the PM Or, if you're in a hurry and your files aren't too big, this thread has some free file-hosts you can try: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=7920.40

EDIT: auriond, I can see you are a teacher. You used the plural possessive correctly

oh noez! it's teh obvious? teh job iz taking over every aspect of my life!!!

[Akatosh]

If all else fails, there's still esnips (which used to be great before they introduced automatically redirecting ads), sendspace and (if you want people to hate you), rapidshare.