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OLPC Game Jam for an XO Laptop

Posted by Zonk on from the think-of-the-children dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The OLPC project has announced a three-day game development jam session is scheduled to begin June 8 on the campus of Olin College, an engineering school in Needham, Massachusetts. 'The game jam is an opportunity for developers to create new types of games that rely on features of the XO's design such as mesh networking between nearby users, an integrated still or video camera, and a tablet mode for mobile gaming. Beyond creating games that teach specific tasks like counting or reading, OLPC hopes the contest will produce templates that allow kids to build their own games, according to OLPC's development guidelines.' The grand prize is a free OLPC laptop. All games created at the weekend-long event will be licensed under the GNU General Public License, and posted on the SourceForge site."

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  1. Battle of.... by Aliencow · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Battle of the first posts?

  2. Airfare? by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How is it possible for the vast majority of people who wish to compete in these events to do so without having to spend hundreds of dollars on round-trip airfare?

  3. Considering where in the World these OLPCs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    are going. How about a shooting game where the object is to NOT hit American, British, or UN soldiers. But it is OK to gun down the local dictator or warlord.

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