On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Carlos Nazareno <object...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys. > > Currently in Auckland, NZ now. > > Went to the game developer meetup last night and tossed the idea of an > OLPC game jam for students and pro/hobbyist game developers to Stephen > Knightly (chairperson of the NZ Game Developers Association -> > http://twitter.com/sknightly ) > > Problem is that there aren't enough Python coders and not everyone has > the luxury of learning python. > > Perhaps other platforms that can run on the XO? > > For you guys who've been doing this, like in Nepal, Is there any good > documentation out there for Sugarizing Javascript/CSS/Canvas/HTML5 > apps or any "web bundles" (Java applet/Flash applet packages) in > general? Something that people with *zero* Python experience and who > work on Windows & Mac can use.
Tomeu built a SWF interface to Sugar in order to build EatBloom http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~tomeu/EatBoom-1.xo I did a very simple Javascript activity: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4085 The work we have been putting into Gnome 3.0 will make it much easier to support multiple languages... stay tuned. -walter > > Another reason I'm big on cross-platform stuff for the XO is that so > OLPC kids do not become "digital 2nd hand digital citizens" - they > should be able to enjoy the same apps "the cool rich kids" use. > > We're looking at a possible pitch for the idea to at the auckland game > dev meetup on January as a talk. Game jams are big right now, esp with > http://ludumdare.com and for people who're into the demo scene > http://scene.org instead of building some stuff just to show off mad > skillz for free anyway, how about tapping them and building stuff for > kids? Even interactive digital art stuff? > > Hope everyone is well, > > -Naz > > -- > carlos nazareno > http://twitter.com/object404 > http://www.object404.com > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
