Competence

Ohai,

so during the last week, i had to choice a multimedia project for this semester.

I decided to stick with doing part of the programming work for a new upcoming educating game. Now I clearly didnt expect anything with the word "education" to be fun to play, especially since its a point and click adventure and it's a state funded project.

Neither did I expect it to be succesful or something.

However, what I heard and saw from people beign responsible for it is outragous and sorta sad. A trio was responsible for the project. Each of them is representing some sorta of data security or police department, but neither of em is a real programm, designer, writer or anything remotely fiting for a game designer. In addition each of them had the great idea, that apparently they have to teach kids of the age category "10-16" (I dont get how 10-16 can be one category by the way), the dangers of internet, privacy theft, the importance of firewalls, routers and how bad cloud computing, facebook and torrents are.

So they came up with some abstract concept of a "point and click adventure" (2 of 3 didnt even udnerstand what that term means), that would get going on a spaceship "protect privacy". Seriously, why dont we just call the nemesis "Book Face" and the protagonist "Cpt. Propaganda"?

 Some collegues and my minority suggested some alternative approaches that seemingly have blown their minds. But seriousy - I still dont get hopw such people just start asuming that they can make some random, not fun game, filled with boring material and asume it will be a hit o.o