Library of Congress Classification System Game - Will Fox News Find Fault?

Library of Congress Classification System Game - Will Fox News Find Fault?

January 29, 2008
Within Range?

Sounds like a great title for a first-person shooter.

Not quite. The edu-game, created by students at Carnegie-Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, is designed to teach players how the Library of Congress classification system works. And even Fox News can't whine about that.

Probably...

Check it out.

Via: Joystiq 
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Submitted by SithLibrarian - January 29, 2008 at 4:19 pm -0500
This game's great. Gonna have to pass it around to my coworkers at my library. Thanks Dennis!
Submitted by BigCityGas - January 29, 2008 at 7:57 am -0500
Awwwwwwwww... Let's the leave the gal alone, she did take back what she said about Mass Effect. xD

But beware, a Florida attorney is not gonna like this game I think. :P
Submitted by Tom - January 29, 2008 at 7:58 am -0500
Come on now, she apologized and retracted her statements. It's not like she's Jack Thompson or Kevin McCullough.
Submitted by Dog Welder - January 29, 2008 at 8:05 am -0500
Worst...game...ever.

(This one got greenlighted on Fark.com a week or so ago.)
Submitted by nightwng2000 - January 29, 2008 at 8:08 am -0500
Not bad for a younger audience just learning about the system.

Not to mention that, in a sense, it teaches about two dimensional arrays as well.

Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
Submitted by E. Zachary Knight - January 29, 2008 at 8:15 am -0500
I like the idea. It is much better than a pamphlet that may or may not help you understand.

We need a dewey decimal game now.
Submitted by Ghede - January 29, 2008 at 8:17 am -0500
I interned at a library. Basically, my entire internship consisted of checking to see if books were in the right place, as well as putting them back into place.

... Towards the end of it, I just stopped caring. I'd put them back into the right place, but when it came time to scan the shelves my eyes would glaze over and I would go through the motions, without even SEEING the labels. Once I got between two shelves, I'd find an interesting book and read. The Biography section was the worst, no shelves opposite each other, I couldn't read.
Submitted by E. Zachary Knight - January 29, 2008 at 9:32 am -0500
Nice change in the article, GP

I almost didn't notice. ;)
Submitted by gamepolitics - January 29, 2008 at 10:18 am -0500
yes, I too am beginning to feel sorry for Ms. Lawrence, so I've revised the headline to reflect where the blame should truly reside.

And you thought I had no heart...

;-)
Submitted by MacBoy - January 29, 2008 at 10:49 am -0500
I LOVE FOX NEWS!
Submitted by Orange Soda - January 29, 2008 at 11:17 am -0500
I wonder if they could teach me how my University library sorts out its collection of books. For one paper I was researching, I found one book that was a hardcover version of another book I had found, and each was catalogued in completely separate isles.
Submitted by JustChris - January 29, 2008 at 12:19 pm -0500
For a moment I thought this would be about an LoC type of system to classify video games.
Submitted by Chalts - January 29, 2008 at 1:14 pm -0500
GP, I get it, you don't like Fox News, but what do they have to do with this game, if you can call it that? I understand the need to vent, but this is getting ridiculous.
Submitted by shady8x - January 29, 2008 at 4:23 pm -0500
This is a porn finder trainer...

It trains our poor innocent children how to find books of adult nature in a library!!!!

This is the worst most explicit game I have ever seen!!!

We must Ban it!!!
/sarcasm end

At this point I think a rant like this by 'experts' is not out of the question...
Submitted by SithLibrarian - January 29, 2008 at 4:27 pm -0500
For fun:
http://media.www.thecurrentonline.com/media/storage/paper304/news/2005/1...
Submitted by Ebonheart - January 29, 2008 at 4:34 pm -0500
OMG! Porn is in the coding that can only be unlocked by adding coding that was deleted by the creators!
/end sarcasm

Lets beat them to the punch of blatant lies.
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