You missed the point of what they need. It is not to have multiple PLAYERS -- it is to have multiple ACTIONS. Moving and firing at the same time are not multiple player -- it's two actions at once.
Shriram On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > On Jul 22, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > >>> >>> I have considered this issue. I decided that these kinds of kids >>> should be introduced to Universe programs as opposed to World >>> programs. That's way cooler than silly one-keyboard games. >> >> Doom is "silly"? Duke Nukem 3D is "silly"? >> >> Perhaps you do indeed know a great deal about games. But perhaps you >> have a more limited understanding of your audience. > > This issue came up at NEU at some point, and when we showed the kids Universe > in response, they though it was way cooler to run the multi-player game on > many computers than on a single keyboard. (I don't know whether they > implemented it.) > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
