A Short Tour (ARIS Tutorial) and Quick Guide

[Chris Holden]

A Short Tour

Last week I ran a workshop remotely for a class at Portland State University hoping to learn a bit about ARIS with an eye to language learning. Before my workshop, this group took an ARIS based multi-lingual tour on their campus made by Steve Thorne and (some students – sorry, I’ve forgotten your names). Rather than have them build Thief, I thought it would be more appropriate to take them through the basics by making a simple tour.

If it’s useful for any of you, here is the script I wrote for that little tutorial.

ARIS Quick Guide

Something else that came up for that workshop is that while The Manual might have complete information about ARIS (maybe), it is a bit too intense to navigate for newcomers. I tried to make something like a day 0 manual, kind of like the min-manuals that come with digital cameras. 

It doesn't get quite specific enough to have screenshots, but you may find this ARIS Quick Guide useful.

[Heather Schneider]

Hi Chris,

Thank you for sharing your ARIS Quick Guide!  I work in the Learning Department at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago and we will soon be hosting a workshop for teens to buid a game using ARIS.  We were having some challenges on how to setup character conversations to generate back and forth between the character and player.  Your guide provided a great step by step fix to our issue.

I am going to include your guide as a resource for our teens when they get started.  Thank you again for pulling this together.

Thank you,

Heather

[Christopher Holden]

Wow, thanks so much! Please feel free to do whatever you want with that material. If there are other specific issues you or others have along these lines, this would be a great place to ask for them. On my blog, I try to tag posts like that as "tutorial" so others can find them more easily. We also try to find helpful guides and post them at http://arisgames.org/make/training. 

I'm curious, what is the background for your workshops? How does ARIS fit in?

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[Bobbie Thibodeau]

You rock - Thanks!