Game Jam Session for OLPC - Olin College - 8 June 2007

[LunaVorax]

@WaffleEgo sound is indeed horrible. I only hear a continuous white noise.

[adultschwim]

hey my computer has a wcam on it ne1 want to help me chat 3

[lazukov]

hey man. im naked!! p

[fawazrob]

From Bangladesh:

The total cost of this apparently benevolent project (including hardware development, marketing, hiring Yves Behar etc) have probably exceeded millions of dollars. Wouldn't it be better served building libraries in developing nations? You know, a book (Those series of pages with black squigly lines) is a proven technology for thousands of years.

With 100 dollars we can buy 100 books for a kid. Why should my govt spend millions for your American idea of tech education?

[moorsalin3]

i agree since I live in america and have ready access to a library, which has had far more of an effect on my education than a computer.

[VCat2006]

Do those books do email, business, and recent world events too?

[cheesechoker]

UNIXBEARDS DETECTED

[fennecfanatic]

This is interesting! I'm not doing XO development, but I was looking for a nice fast how-to for pygame, and this taught me most all I need to know in like three minutes. Win! =D

[burndata]

ya i, getting one:)

[gh77]

that's a great idea, make educational and fun games for children..

[NeloAngelops3]

WASAP!!!nice video,I realy want to lear more.

[Flystand]

I'm learning python too atm.. but i don't know how to "Compile" python in a executable binary.. seriously i'm having trouble.. can someone help me please? send me a message?

[dotstripe]

its a scripting language first, you dont have to compile. You can compile into an exe on windows but you dont have to, read some tutorials

[Jzarecta]

py2exe is usually the compiler on windows, this doesn't apply to XO since is a Linux OS. However there is the bytecode compilation that genrates a a pyc.

[nucleartwon]

OMG! If you know php you know python.

[fennecfanatic]

Python and PHP have wildly different syntax for even the most basic things and are implemented in entirely different manners.

PHP: $a->$f("foo" . "bar"); // comment

Py: a.f('foo' + 'bar') # comment

[fennecfanatic]

py2exe works for Windows. For Linux, or any OS for that matter, you'll want to look into "freezing" Frozen binaries are essentially created by tacking the bytecode of your app onto a specially-compiled version of the PVM.

[straylor]

Here's a link to additional OLPC Game Jame video that was taken by organizers of the event. Enjoy!

tinyurl (dot) c o m/33r7zw

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w w w (dot) archive (dot) o r g/details/TheNeedhamChannel_OL­PCGameJamBroadcast2007

[Geoffr524]

Thanks for the link, and a cool video here.

[arjunsarwal]

Nice Video!

are more videos of the game jam available anywhere ? thanks.