- Play Passage in pairs (5 min)
- Mac: download Whisky. And then download the Windows version of Passage. Install it.
- Windows: download Passage
- Open up the folder that contains Passage, and then open up the graphics folder. You’ll see a number of graphic files. Take a few quick guesses in your group about what each file is. What sort of assumptions are embedded in the file names themselves?
- Make backup copies of the characterSprite.tga and spouseSprite.tga files. Then swap names. That is, rename characterSprite into spouseSprite and vice-versa.
- Play Passage again. What’s happened?
- Try other renaming variations.
- Download Gimp
- Open up characterSprite.tga and spouseSprite.tga in Gimp. What are you looking at? Now try editing the files in Gimp. When you save or export your changes, be sure to deselect the compression option.
- Now go crazy and try your own mods of Passage. Can you make a mod that subverts, challenges, or comments upon the original Passage? Can you make a mod that subverts, challenges, or comments upon the same themes as Passage?