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8:17am on Friday, 9th May, 2025:
Anecdote
It's examination season at Essex University. Although I've been retired a whole week, I offered to mark the exams I set so that other people didn't have to mark my papers by basically rolling dice.
There aren't as many out-takes from exams as there are from assignments, but here are a handful from last year. The first three came from a question in which I asked candidates to discuss five aspects of a game set in the present day that would need to be localised for players time-travelled to the today from a year of the candidate's choosing between 1800 and 1980.
If the game is set in 1955, any cars will have to be reskinned to horses and carriages to adjust to the pre-car Britain.
In 1900 people used shillings and pennies but today we use pounds.
The words people used in the 1980s don't exist anymore.
Birds define physics by flying with their wings.
Eve was given an apple by a sneak.
Some sound they can pronouns but some can't.
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