Ronald Regan Teaches Typing

yeah, this was more of a super quick side project. Maybe I’ll make a “proper” follow up someday.... (but maybe not)

Possibly, but I'm actually not sure how much I like this game and its concept?

This game was inspired by this tweet, which, in hindsight, was probably meant mostly as a joke. I took on the challenge anyway, because it was an idea that I liked, seemed doable given my previous experience with a typing game, and the idea was from someone I respected.

I started this project before realizing just how political this game's concept was (even though it seems obvious now). I'm not someone who really likes most political stuff, so having to make a political game seemed daunting. I was able to run an early outline of the game's script past Nelson, who kindly pointed out a potentially offensive part of the story. Besides that (and a few other kind testers), I was on my own in terms of the story and writing. Keep in mind, I'm not really in many major minority groups, so the task of representing minority groups (even in the general sense) felt like an extreme burden/responsibility (I'm still not sure if I handled things correctly). And three weeks was not a whole lot of time to research things, especially when I had the rest of the game to make, and college stuff, and other life stuff, and I had to put a big project of mine (which I'm currently working on) on hold.

Even disregarding that, I'm not really happy with how the writing turned out. It feels awkward and stilted at times, especially near the end. 

Most of the gameplay is sandwiched in the middle of the game, and doesn't serve much of a purpose. In Tauriel Teaches Typing (I reused the engine/gameplay from TTT for this game to save on time), the typing gameplay served a point, and was an integral part of the experience, but here it feels a bit vestigial and slightly pointless.

I like the test designs I came up with, and this game gave me an excuse to draw cute goat(s), and it made some people happy. But I'm not sure that I (or others) would like a longer version of RRTT more than the current one; I think the extended length might make it worse in some regards.

You (or anyone else) could make RRTT 2 if you wanted to, though.