[Edu-sig] RE: Pygame, gameMaker etc.

[Arthur]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirby Urner [mailto:urnerk at qwest.net]
> Arthur:
> > To me the "game" is in getting the computer to respond to one's
> > instructions, and that directing the end product to be in particular a
> > "game" in any normal sense of the word is unnecessarily limiting, and -
> > IMO - not as generally appealing to beginners as seems to be assumed.
> >
> 
> Perhaps the solution is to get "game" to mean anything/everything, when we
> need it to.

There are head games and mind games and semantic games.

And there are Purim games:

http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/yreshef/purim/clown.html

My father's game was boxing.  

Tough game.

He won a tournament at college and came home proudly with the medal he
earned.

His stern and studious father reacted  - in Yiddish.

""
This, a medal?

Mathematics is a medal!
""

Guess I'm stuck in the same groove as grandpa, a bit.

Art