In class yesterday, we talked some about the process of programming games like this, and Christian asked later about the possibility creating something along the lines of Photopia for a final project. There are indeed free resources out there for creating these things, and if you’re interested, I strongly recommend you look at Inform. (Go to the download page at the top right.)
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On Friday, there will be a quiz covering This is Not a Game and our conversation so far about ARGs. On that quiz, there will be an opportunity for extra credit, which you can receive if you correctly solve this puzzle. Not only will this get you some practice at puzzle-solving, this puzzle is appropriate since it appeared within a Dave Szulborski game.

The attached images are two sides of the same document, and it contains an encoded message. Everything you need to break the code is on this certificate.

To get you started, here’s a copy of the printed text on the front side:  read more »