Since I went to Chicago this weekend I decided to try out the simulation component of ARIS since I would actually be in another city other than Madison. I went to the ARIS website and at first it was kind of hard to find the simulation cheat codes but eventually I found them. The website does not offer cheat codes for all the games they offer if you are actually playing the game in Madison. They also only offer you three cheat codes per game so your are not able to actually complete a quest if you wanted to using the simulation. The way the simulation operates is you have to take a picture of the barcode and then it moves you to the next part of the game.
Since each game only has three cheat codes I was unable to complete my UW Campus tour using the simulation because the cheat codes they offered for the quest I had already completed those parts of the quest. So instead I chose to do the Dow Day Quest. This game was a little different from the UW campus tour quest in the respect it was about a certain day in history and in a way reliving it versus a tour and little tid bits about the UW campus. The introduction to the game was that I was a reporter and trying to get information about the October 1967 Dow Chemical protests on the UW Campus So initially when I took the picture of the first barcode/cheat code a message appeared that I needed to take a better picture for it to work. It took a couple of trys to get it right but eventually I did. Then appeared my "editor" telling me I needed to get all these different sources for my article on these protests. Then when you continued it went to you and you asked a question that they had already input into the game. So they wanted it to seem as if you were having a conversation with someone when really you were essentially just reading a dialogue. The "interviews" continued as I scanned each barcode and gave me different perspectives on the Dow Chemical issue from someone who worked for the Dow to student protestors. So it seemed as if you were a reporter getting the full story. One feature that appeared that had no appeared in my other quest was "inventory". After I had spoke to the protestor a flyer for the protest appeared in my inventory folder which was kind of interesting. Right now I am unsure if the simulation of the quests or walking around completing the actual quest is more fun and beneficial.
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