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'font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>All the suff you need to get started is=
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Mark Overmar&#8217;s site<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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href=3D"http://www.gamemaker.nl/index.html">http://www.gamemaker.nl/index.ht=
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group and the kids loved it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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teaching IT that I was behind a number of the kids.<o:p></o:p></span></font>=
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s more
stuff available.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span style=3D=
'font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I started with the Chase the Clown task
which is fully explained and then worked thro&#8217; the Maze games and Shoo=
ter
games.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span style=3D=
'font-size:
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y
explained and you need to download the various stages to see how to complete
the tasks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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'font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tony Forster (?) is the expert. Go to t=
he
VITTA site for a copy of a session he ran at the conf last year.<o:p></o:p><=
/span></font></p>

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<st1:PersonName w:st=3D"on">ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au</st1:PersonName> [ma=
ilto:<st1:PersonName
w:st=3D"on">ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au</st1:PersonName>] <b><span
style=3D'font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Kerrie A Hammond<br>
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 19 July 2006=
 9:17
AM<br>
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> ipm@edulists.com.au<br>
<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Year 12 IPM] gamema=
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10=
.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Can anyone help me with some introductory lesson
plans/activities related to gamemaker? I have never used this program and am
keen to explore it with the possibility of introducing it to some of our uni=
ts.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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font-family:Arial'>Thanks in anticipation</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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