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]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
