Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Game Design Challenge: Hamlet

 My dear friend Jill Duffy -- a bona fide girl reporter -- is the editor at GameCareerGuide, which recently hosted a Game Design Challenge for its readers: design a game based on Hamlet. "The primary limitation was that if in-game characters spoke, then the words that came out of their mouths had to be directly from the original text."

CLICK HERE for the results.

4 comments:

Prof Fury said...

Forgive me if they mention this somewhere on that site and I missed it in my scan, but a few years ago I played and enjoyed this Infocom-style Hamlet Text Adventure.

I was about to wax nostalgic about Infocom, but I'll stop now.

pla said...

I assume you've also seen the dinosaur comics installments that deal with turning Shakespeare into a video game, but if not:

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001177.html
http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001178.html

Penny Golding said...

Another existing game is Hamlet: A Game In Five Acts, a hypertext game.

Hypertext critic and publisher, Mark Bernstein, has written a lot about the problems of genuinely adapting Hamlet into an interactive game.

David Golding said...

Whoops, that was me, not Penny. :-)