OLPC Project Hosting Game-centric Hack Fest

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project wants you to help show off what its budget-priced XO laptop can do. The non-profit will host a three-day "game jam" on June 8 in Needham, Massachusetts. According to an IDG story, it’s an evangelism project. The OLPC folks are hoping that some creative developers will be able […]

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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project wants you to help show off what its budget-priced XO laptop can do.

The non-profit will host a three-day "game jam" on June 8 in Needham, Massachusetts. According to an IDG story, it's an evangelism project. The OLPC folks are hoping that some creative developers will be able to harness the XO laptop's unique features in new ways:

XO users already have their choice of certain games in a "Pygames" library of open-source applications written in the Python programming language, and the XO's eToys application that allows children to create their own basic media and games... Developers could 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.

Any game templates created during the game jam will be made available online to XO users when the laptop is released later this year, and all of the games submitted during the coding fest will be released under the GPL.