The Brainy Gamer: Unplayable
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010The Brainy Gamer's got a great blog up right now about his experience asking younger gamers to play an old classic. Both funny and a little bit depressing, ultimately more enlightening than anything else.
It mostly came down to issues of user-interface, navigation, combat, and a general lack of clarity about what to do and how to do it. I had supplied them with the Book of Mystic Wisdom and the History of Britannia, both in PDF form, but not a single student bothered to read them. "I thought that was just stuff they put in the box with the game," said one student. "Yes," I replied, "They put it in there because they expected you to read it." "Wow," he responded.
