Douglas A. Shepardson

Click the link below to play the game: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/9f5596c6-f1e6-40aa-8ae3-4974231af8ee The above didn't work, second attempt here: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/963c3693-b12a-4ef2-b849-bd0a44afc36d

[Note: this is not a blog post; it's for a class to easily access materials on one webpage!] Decision-based RPG game: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/7e4f6339-7633-46a6-83d2-e52331f55cdf Prompt used to create that game: "Make a text-based RPG game about a hero with a gender neutral name saving a princess from a castle with a dragon. Allow the player to make decisions about how to navigate the castle (e.g., go up to the first floor, go to the basement, etc). Have a few random encounters,...

My favorite genre of fiction (a term that for me includes comic books, film, television, and videogames) explores brutal post-apocalyptic worlds, highlighting the characters who manage to survive them. My love of this genre has something to do with “grit,” a term with (at least) two senses, or meanings.   The first, academic, sense of “grit” can be defined with psychologist Angela Duckworth’s gloss: grit is “perseverance in the pursuit of passion.” But the colloquial sense of “grit” is more...