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From: thoni@ida.liu.se (Thomas Nilsson)
Subject: Re: Game "Application"
Message-ID: <1993Jan20.181738.15840@ida.liu.se>
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Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 18:17:38 GMT
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cg011@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark M Woodward) writes:


>I work for a chain of restaurants, and I would like to write a "game" that
>would help train the hostesses, waiters and waitresses. It seems to me that
>I could force some customer situations that would require the waiter to
>give the correct response, or be told that it was not correct?? I am not
>thinking that this will replace regular training, but just a fun project for
>me to get my feet wet, and it may help someone....any suggestions? Is it a 
>lame idea, should I move to a remote region of the globe and feign ignorance?

Personally I think this type of IF-application is very interesting. We
usually think (and talk) about the 'game' type of interactive fiction.
This more serious type of stories has not been mentioned very often on
this group, why is that?

Interactive fiction as a training (or simulation) tool has been used
in practice at least once. And there ought to be many types of
training that could benefit from this type of tool, everything from
project managers, economicists, politicians etc. etc. Actually a
friend of mine had an idea for a story in which you where put in
charge of a programming project which you had to design and implement
the solution for. Aspects such as creativity, planning, documentation,
thinking, recreation etc. could influence the result, which might
satisfy the customer to varying degree.

The training genre of IF should be interesting, if not on other
merits, so at least for the bucks involved (price of a game $29, price
of a manager training software package $2999, ;-).

Thomas

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Little languages go a long way...
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Thomas Nilsson				Phone Int.: (+46) 13 12 11 67
Stenbrotsgatan 57			Phone Nat.: 013 - 12 11 67
S-582 47  LINKOPING			Email:	thoni@softlab.se
SWEDEN						Thomas_Nilsson@augs.se
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