[OLPC_Boston] Boston Game Jam - Physics for the XO!

[Brian Jordan]

Hi Boston OLPC friends!

The OLPC Physics Game Jam competition is being held August 29th-31st,
2008 at 1CC in Cambridge MA. Participants, in teams of 2-4, will have
48 hours to construct physics-based games for the XO laptop.

If you're in the area during the weekend, you should come by! Whether
you're a devel or not, game jams are tons of fun. We are looking for
people to make fun levels using x2o's level designer during the jam,
and it's fun to get involved with testing, art drawing and song
creating.

More information here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Physics_Jam

For those competing, prizes will include an OLPC XO, various tech
goodies and OLPC/Jam swag. On Sunday, we are hoping to hold a
kid-testing of the games created. Contact jams at laptop.org if you know
of interested game testers!

Categories of participants:

  1. Professional developers (suggested: teams of 2-4)
  2. Independent developers (suggested: teams of 2-4)
  3. Level designers
  4. Youth developers (suggested: teams of 2-4)
  5. Remote developers (suggested: 1-4 team members) - Takes place online.
  6. Staff and support (graphic artists, musicians, sound designers,
video producers, event supporters)
       * Please contact us jams at laptop.org if you would like to be a
volunteer for the event.

Instructional events will include:

   * Eric Jordan of the Box2D project will be giving a talk on
developing physics games with pyBox2D for the OLPC XO.
   * Nirav Patel, Google Summer of Code student working on vision
processing for the XO will describe combining physics and vision
processing for interactive games.
   * Alex Levenson, OLPC summer intern and creator of the x2o physics
game will talk about level design for his game.