SOFTWARE & TOOLS: Whoa, Alice!
A bit bored with Kitty, though I’m determined to work my way through the program (Scratch) and try everything out and come out with a complete project, I went back to the Alice site and that looks like a lot more fun and the figures are indeed a lot more professional than what is offered by Scratch.
Alice appears to incorporate some of the things I’ve seen in Storytron: if X happens, then Z will do Y. Though it’s not on such an elaborate level as Storytron, whose main purpose is to create multiple possibilities in narrative style, the Alice demo did show how it works to keep a skater from falling into a hole in the ice (the environment, or background).
Though I’m not sure that I have any real interest in creating animation or getting a job in the field (hah!), it is a fascinating process to get my hands dirty while learning something just for the fun of it.
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