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made with Etoys, the other games I don't think so it would be so easy
to extend later.

Roberto

On Nov 21, 2007 7:20 PM, Jason Pratt <jason at jasonpratt.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from this...
>
> - that eToys is vastly superior to whatever was being used at Game Jam Brasil?
> - that the Game Jam Brasil participants weren't very competent?
> - that this particular developer is significantly more skilled than
> the Game Jam Brasil participants?
>
> It's not clear what he's advocating.
>
>
>
> On 11/16/07, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> > Want to share this comment of a fellow Brasilian developer:
> >
> > "At Game Jam Brasil last weekend, none of the teams used eToys. I was
> > able to reproduce their games (which they took 29 hours to program)
> > in just a few minutes in eToys. And using the machine itself rather
> > than a separate development PC.
> >
> > Though to be fair, I was programming games in Basic before any of the
> > participants were born"
> >
> > - Bert -
> >
> > On Nov 16, 2007, at 18:28 , Samuel Klein wrote:
> >
> > > I should have read all my mail before asking :-)  Also, here's a set
> > > of photos just uploaded to the wiki from the Brasil jam last weekend:
> > >
> > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_Jam_Brasil
> > >
> > > SJ!
> > >
> > > On Nov 4, 2007 10:35 PM, Andrew Clunis <andrew at orospakr.ca> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 14:33 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> > >>> Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> > >>>> I am definitely in.
> > >>>>
> > >>> Alright, as of now it's just Myles and I, with Soni maybe showing
> > >>> up if
> > >>> she's got time that weekend.  Anyone else interested?  We're still
> > >>> thinking of the weekend of the 16th of November.  (Same time as
> > >>> the CMU
> > >>> Game Jam IIUC).  With such a small number of people we might be
> > >>> able to
> > >>> hold it at Linux Caffe.  I'm going to be in Taiwan come
> > >>> Wednesday, so if
> > >>> we're going to have more people I'll need to know about it soon
> > >>> so I can
> > >>> find a bigger venue (and/or book a table or two at Linux Caffe).
> > >>
> > >> I might be interested in coming too!  I'm the guy who was working on
> > >> Develop activity earlier this year, but being in Ottawa has left me a
> > >> bit cut off from all the other OLPC people.
> > >>
> > >> I *might* need a place to spend the night, though!
> > >>
> > >>> No way we'd finish all of that in a weekend, though... still, it
> > >>> would
> > >>> be interesting to see how far we got.  I'm sure a smaller game
> > >>> would be
> > >>> far more practical.  Or we could just cut it down a lot and consider
> > >>> basic playability the goal, with the various extra rules as
> > >>> secondary.
> > >>
> > >> Yeah, I suggest the iterative approach is probably best.  If your
> > >> game
> > >> is always at least running to some degree, more people will be
> > >> encouraged to jump in and contribute. :)
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Andrew Clunis
> > >>
> >
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