Tag Archives: ARIS
Scenes from a Game Launch: Things You Really Don’t Want to Hear
ARIS MC-for-the-Day: “In reviewing game (made for hs math) not sure it’s the best. Heading there soon. Can touch base then. ” *t-minus 2 hours to launch* O.O
Failure to launch, frog edition
Hey you know what would be awesome? If iOS7 screwed up basically every functionality in ARIS and then working for only one iOS7 device. That would be just super. Some days game design is just like this. But I confess, my patience is starting to wear thin with ARIS. There are so many other options …
Scenes from a Game Launch: Waterman Wander
Meanwhile over on Storify, we ran a nifty little ARIS game called “Waterman Wander” with a class of pre-service teachers at UVM.
You could *smell* the focus in the room.
ARIS on PBS Kids
cc @hennesss I just did a G+ Hangout with some teachers who had never heard of ARIS before but are interested in learning more about it. They’re interested in deploying a unit involving history, ecology and first-person narratives. We didn’t have time to play an ARIS game as a group, but I remembered this amazing …
DCF Book Run launch report, part 3
http://youtu.be/OOcaZdLuEqE About the joys of unexpectedly locating the ghost of Dorothy Canfield Fisher in the parking lot. Featuring our lead QA tester, and me. Sorry the audio in the beginning of the clip is so terrible, btw. I was trying to talk softly so the hotel didn’t kick us out.
DCF Book Run launch report, part 2
http://youtu.be/zNgHshuRlpI A scene from the great QR code theft, featuring our lead QA tester. Btw, Lucy Wu is the title character of The Great Wall of Lucy Wu, one of the DCF books this year and a clue in the game.
DCF Book Run launch report, part 1.
Well so far we’ve only lost 1.5 QR codes and a table. One disappeared mysteriously from on top of a vending machine and had to be replaced on the fly, and the other I managed to talk the dining room staff out of believing was simply brightly colored garbage. Folded into a free-standing table tent. …
Things that might’ve been said at this morning’s game launch:
1. “Dorothy just popped up again. Turn her down!” 2. “45 minutes before the first QR code was stolen. 45 minutes. Stay classy, librarians.” 3. “Is she still popping up?”