{"id":422,"date":"2014-03-28T03:58:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T08:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/student-project-inspired-by-codemancer\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:30:52","slug":"student-project-inspired-by-codemancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/student-project-inspired-by-codemancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Inspired by ‘Codemancer’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago I received the following email:<\/p>\n

Hi Rob,<\/p>\n

My name is Aleks and I’ve been following your progress since very early November last year. I am currently an undergraduate student at Newcastle University in UK and am working on my own educational game as a part of my final year project. And I must say that Codemancer was one of the educational game concepts that inspired me to pick the direction I took with my final year project. So you and Codemancer are definitely mentioned in the research part of my project \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that there are more people out there who feel that educational games need to be engaging, attractive and interesting, not just… well… educational.<\/p>\n

If you feel curious enough to check out what my project looks like, here’s a link to one of the relatively recent updates (without music or sound effects, but with a full walkthrough of the first level), the game is called “The Amazing Adventures of Chloe Pikselle”: http:\/\/youtu.be\/1vzHTqRw07o<\/a><\/p>\n

And, well, in case you’re even more curious, here you can find the whole list of updates I’ve done so far (I’m trying to do them weekly), with a few downloadable demos: http:\/\/ohpollux.co.uk\/projects\/chloepikselle\/<\/a><\/p>\n

But anyway, this is not a shameless attempt at advertising myself (at least it’s not meant to be), it’s more of a thank you for the inspiration and a demonstration that this inspiration was not wasted \ud83d\ude42 I wish you all the best with Codemancer and good luck with Kickstarter!<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Kind regards,<\/p>\n

Aleks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I recommend you check out the demo. \u00a0I’ll be trying to support this project as much as I can, and I hope you’ll join me. Welcome to the club of folks developing games that teach programming, Aleks. \u00a0I’m sure we’ll learn a lot from each other.<\/p>\n

-Rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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