Dream journal

A final exam in a course on video-game design. The exam was in the form of an amusement-park ride: as we rode through a darkened tunnel, things flashed on both sides, with no opportunity to pause or go back. The first section of the exam showed the icons of five well-known video games -- I don't remember exactly, but let's say Chess, Donkey Kong, Super Mario, etc. -- with numbers associated with each. Later sections of the exam named particular techniques studied in class, and asked which of the numbered games were most likely to use that technique and why.