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Bucknell could have added another score at the beginning of the fourth quarter, but the aptly-named junior Ron Rockett was ruled out-of-bounds on a great catch at the Harvard one-yard line, forcing Bucknell to punt...
...your name is Rockett. It's your first day at a new junior high school, and you're pretty nervous, but outside the building you meet this girl named Jessie who gives you the lay of the land ("Watch out for Nicole." "Who's Nicole?" "Don't worry, you'll find out sooner than you'd want to"). Now, do you walk into homeroom by Jessie's side or go it alone? She's nice, but is it smart to commit to a best friend already? What...
...Purple Moon built two games that do. In Rockett's First Day (the first of a series), carrot-topped Rockett steers through the treacherous shoals of junior high using a storytelling strategy Laurel calls "emotional navigation." Players decide how to interact with other characters, guiding and shaping the story based on how they think Rockett is feeling about a given situation. As a bonus, Rockett can even sneak peeks into her classmates' lockers...
...house to talk Issues: one girl doesn't think she's pretty enough, another isn't getting along with her siblings, and so on. Purple Moon misses no chance to add layers of complexity or to cross-merchandise; most of the characters in Secret Paths are kids from the Rockett series revealing themselves more intimately. They'll also turn up this fall on the Purple Moon Website. "Every character," Deyo promises, "will write and publish her own Web page." One girl named Whitney, for instance, comes across in the Rockett games as kind of a...well, let's just...
...think [the administration] might feel alittle detached right now and need to find whatthe students feel," said Kirkland House committeechair Sean E. Rockett '89, who attended themeeting...