[OLPC-Philippines] Greetings from IGDA Manila

[Ryan Sumo]

Thanks Cherry, Naz,

I'm kicking myself now for not getting in touch with you guys sooner. :P  Yes I do believe it was Paolo Jara who I met a year ago.  At the time he was saying something about giving out OLPCs to any developer that wanted to make a game for it.  Does this offer still stand, or do you have any other programs like this? Ultimately I think it would be great to have a little competition of some sort for local game devs to make educational games, but to be honest I'm still tired from organizing the manila game jam last January.  Perhaps there are ways we can integrate it into upcoming events with GDAP/IGDA.

I'm very interested in knowing more about Cherry's course on etoys, though I'm not sure what what you mean by APC (Asia Pacific College?).  I'm actually not a programmer myself but I would be happy to spread the word to our members about it.  
 
Cheers,Ryan Sumo
freelance artist/IGDA Manila chairperson
portfolio - http://ryansumo.carbonmade.com/
blog - http://geekofalltrades.wordpress.com/
IGDA Manila forum - http://tinyurl.com/igdamanila




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From: Cherry Withers <cwithers at ekindling.org>
To: OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots <olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org>
Sent: Friday, April 9, 2010 12:24:08 PM
Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] Greetings from IGDA Manila

Hi Ryan, 

There is always a big need for developers for Sugar. We always welcome and appreciate the help! There are several ways to develop in Sugar.
You can go the Etoys route. For already experienced game developers this would be a very low entry. To develop a Sugar activity, you can probably 
start with James Simmon's book:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/

Phython background will help. You can make an activity using Pygame: http://www.pygame.org/news.html
There's also the Karma project which relies on HTML5 and javascript. 

I know that there are plenty of Flash developers out there but currently it is very hard to integrate it to 
Sugar. 

I will be teaching a 2-day course on Etoys at APC from April 19th-20th. Please let me know if you're interested in attending. I would like to talk to you more about creating synergy between our groups. 

Regards,
Cherry 


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Ryan Sumo <endlessthirteen at yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi all, 
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>My name's Ryan and I'm the current chapter head of the IGDA (International Game Developer's Association) in Manila.  Sometime last year I'd talked with one of your members (first name Paolo, last name lost to my awful memory) about he possibility of getting game developers to make educational games for the XO.  I never had the time to follow up on this but I was wondering if there have ever been similar initiatives around the world, or if you guys would be interested in working with us? 
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>Thanks for you time, and I do hope to hear back from you soon.
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>Cheers,Ryan Sumo
>freelance artist/IGDA Manila chairperson
>portfolio - http://ryansumo.carbonmade.com/
>blog - http://geekofalltrades.wordpress.com/
>IGDA Manila forum - http://tinyurl.com/igdamanila
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From: Cherry Withers <cwithers at ekindling.org>
>To: OLPC SF <olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org>; OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots <OLPC-Philippines at lists.laptop.org>
>Sent: Friday, April 9, 2010 11:58:31 AM
>Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] XO donated today
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>Hi Everyone, 
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>Just want to thank Jay and Sharon for donating their XO. It will be put to good use. 
>>On behalf of eKindling and OLPC-PH, thank you so much!
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>Regards,
>Cherry 
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