[Tux4kids-discuss] GSOC 2013 Project Proposition

[Forest Johnson]

Personally, I would do it with the Unity engine (unity3d.com) because I'm
familiar with it, and it is geared toward mobile and cross platform
development. However, it is not really "open" software, so I think it might
be better to use something else for this project? I'm prepared to learn a
new environment, but, if I could, I would jump at the chance to use Unity.

Forest


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:46 AM, deneche abdelhakim <adeneche at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Forest,
>
> I am glad someone else is thinking the same thing as me :) What technology
> do you plan use when coding the game ?
>
> Hakim
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Forest Johnson <johnsonf at beloit.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hakim, Tux4Kids,
>>
>> I'm also interested in GSOC 2013, and I had a similar idea of a game.
>> Although I was thinking more along the lines of MIT's Scratch, i.e.
>> graph-based, I'm curious what you and the group think about the idea of
>> creating a game to target PC, online, and mobile devices, which teaches
>> fundamental programming concepts. I think touch screen devices have a lot
>> of potential for a kind of visual programming which is similar to building
>> with legos.
>>
>> I'm an undergrad student, but I've also worked in the games industry for
>> a while.. See my linkedin if you are curious.
>> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/forest-johnson/56/563/34a
>>
>> Forest
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 12:55 AM, deneche abdelhakim <adeneche at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> My name is Hakim, I am a Phd student in Computer Science and I always
>>> loved programming games. I want to share my passion for programming by
>>> making a game to teach the basis of programmation. The game will be similar
>>> to "lighbot":
>>>
>>> www.kongregate.com/games/coolio_niato/lighbot-2-0
>>>
>>> I also want to use Adobe Air, the game can be run on the browser on
>>> virtually every platform that has a browser. The game can also be easily
>>> packaged to a desktop application on Windows or Mac. And the game can be
>>> packaged easily to a native mobile game that can be run on iOS and Android.
>>>
>>> Here is a list of game that I already released. I am currently working
>>> on a mobile version of Fip using Adobe Air, the game should be released on
>>> mobile in a month.
>>>
>>> http://thegamerstop.com/44496-Aarrggbb.html
>>> http://www.kongregate.com/games/GrimPandaGames/kolorz
>>> http://www.kongregate.com/games/grimpandagames/fip
>>>
>>> My question is: how relevant my proposition is related to tux4kids ?
>>>
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>>
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