Filed under: Games, Linux, Open Source
Design an education game for the OLPC
by Brad Linder May 26th 2007
How do you get national governments to commit to ordering hundreds of thousands of your new low-cost computer for "educational" purposes? Put more games on it, of course.The One Laptop Per Child Project is hosting a "game jam" in Needham, Massachusetts from June 8th through the 10th. The goal is to get small teams of game designers together to create open source games that:
- Take advantage of the XO laptop's mesh networking capability
- Use the built in camera
- Use the XO's tablet mode (it's not a touch-screen, but there are joystick-like buttons on the side
- Oh yeah, and educational games, and applications that let kids create their own games
[via PC World]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
