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OLPC Physics Game Jam For an XO

Posted by kdawson on from the come-to-learn-come-to-win dept.

Brian Jordan writes "For 48 hours during the weekend of August 29-31 at the OLPC Physics Game Jam Boston, game developers will compete in teams of 2-4 to design and implement a physics-based game for the One Laptop per Child XO laptop. There are prize categories for indie, professional, and remote developers (Ludum Dare style). In addition to OLPC/Jam-related swag for all participants, one team will win an XO laptop. Participants should have some game development experience, but we'll be going over the development process during the event — read below for details. If you'll be in the Boston area this weekend, or want to participate remotely, sign up before August 22. If you're a graphic artist, sound designer, musician in the Boston area, or want to be a volunteer, get in touch." Click the magic link for details of the crash course in game programming being offered.

Eric Jordan of the Box2D project will be giving a talk on developing physics games with pyBox2D for the OLPC XO. Nirav Patel, the Google Summer of Code student working on vision processing for the XO, will describe combining physics and vision processing for interactive games. And Alex Levenson, OLPC summer intern and creator of the x2o physics game, will give a remote introduction to level design for his game.

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  1. not what they really need by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How about a spreadsheet?

    How about a file manager?

    1. Re:not what they really need by gmuslera · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The XO was meant for educating childs (developing countries or not). A game that makes them understand physics, thru a game, goes to the core of the mission of those machines.

      Spreadsheets (childs 1st need to learn how to do and understand math) or file managers (the interface somewhat hides that is a filesystem below) dont look as compatible with those goals.

  2. Re:one team will win an XO laptop by LostCluster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A net prize worth $200 is hardly worth a trip into Boston...

  3. Re:one team will win an XO laptop by felipekk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are not the kind of person they are looking for.

    OLPC is a non-profit organization. They seek people that have similar things in mind.