Congress Slashes Funding for Peaceful Conflict Resolution Game 84
In a departure from the usual video game setting a recent educational video game called "Cool School" was designed to teach kids peaceful conflict resolution. Unfortunately Congress has decided to slash the funding of this program that has been receiving rave reviews from the testers at schools in Illinois. "Cool School focuses on taking players through a school where just about everything (desks, books, and other objects) are alive and have their own personality. Over the course of ten levels and over 50 different situations designed by Professor Melanie Killen and then-doctoral student Nancy Margie (both of the University of Maryland). The primary goal of the game is to teach students how to solve social conflict through skills like negotiation and cooperation. During the title's development, Killen and Margie were able to work with some talented members of the video game industry, including independent developer F.J. Lennon and animator Dave Warhol." The game is now available as a free download and will play on both Mac OS X and Windows XP.
Funding slashed for a finished game (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks slashdot, for providing no link to the article where the funding is being slashed, just two links to a game and people's reviews of it.
Damn! (Score:5, Funny)
no funding? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Really.... (Score:4, Funny)
Wow.
Also in true /. style, I didn't read your whole comment, but I saw something in there about "governed" and "WINE" and you made no mention of "legalized". Frankly I think the US Government has no right to prohibit alcohol sales.
Re:Funding slashed for a finished game (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Funding slashed for a finished game (Score:1, Funny)
You didn't think all the advert stories have been posted for free, now did you? Slashvertisement was all they could afford now!
Re:Really.... (Score:4, Funny)
Obviously, someone running Linux or other F/OSS OS doesn't need a game to understand the advantages of cooperation or peaceful conflict resolution. Kernel, license or editor conflicts almost never devolve into physical violence.
How fun would an appropriate game be?
"Mark doesn't agree with your indentation style. What do you do?"
a) Create my own fork
b) Develop software that will display the code in the viewers indent style
c) I demonstrate my indentation preference by indenting Marks face with my fist
d) I write my own new software with a new license allowing only derivative works with the same indentation style
Re:Funding slashed for a finished game (Score:4, Funny)
Really? I heard that Peaceful Conflict Resolution accelerators simply weren't fast enough for Duke's "Resolutions."
Re:Funding slashed for a finished game (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Really.... (Score:2, Funny)
While I understand your sentiment, I respectfully disagree. I agree that over 95% of the US, and probably the world, use Windows directly. However, indirectly, everyone uses Unix or Linux.
Today the world revolves around the internet. Something like 65%-70% of internet servers run on Linux and 15%-20% run on some non-Linux version of Unix. (These numbers may have changed since I last checked.) In fact, the root of the internet, some 13 root name servers, all run on Unix/Linux.
Since the internet revolves around these Unix servers, and the world revolves around the internet...
The world does revolve around my chosen operating system! [Insert Maniacal Laughter here.][Overlay Thunder Claps within Maniacal Laughter.]
Re:Funding slashed for a finished game (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Really.... (Score:4, Funny)
Well, 'Hitman' was a game too, you know.