OLPC Physics Game Jam - for an XO!

Friday, August 29, 2008 at 5:00 PM - Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 5:30 PM (ET)

Cambridge, MA

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Ticket Information

Ticket Type	Sales End		Quantity
Boston - pro developers more info Professional game developers and teams attending the jam. Suggested donation: $30 or something awesome. [1]	Ended	Free	N/A
Boston - indie developers more info For independent game developers and teams. Suggested donation: $20 or something powerful. [1]	Ended	Free	N/A
Boston - level design more info Jam attendees (of ALL AGES) who want to make levels for x2o and other Physics games made at the jam. Suggested donation: $20 or snacks. [1]	Ended	Free	N/A
Boston - youth designers more info For participants and teams under 18. Parent-child teams are encouraged. Suggested donation: $10 or something with strange physical properties. [1]	Ended	Free	N/A
Boston - support/volunteers more info For organizers, roving musicians, graphic designers, sound effect producers, mentors, food-getters.	Ended	Free	N/A
Boston - Sunday - learning content meeting only more info Remote participation will be possible via http://www.justin.tv/physicsjam	Ended	Free	N/A
Remote participant more info For remote participants planning to make a game during the period of August 29th-31st.	Ended	Free	N/A

Event Details

[1] If you sign up to attend in person, please bring a contribution with you! Bring $20, $50, something to add to the prize pool, or some exciting gear or code to share. Financial contributions will help cover t-shirts, snacks, and lunches.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Tell your friends (and physicist enemies) --

The Physics Game Jam is an OLPC Jam devoted towards learning to produce and producing physics-based games for the XO laptop. It will be held August 29th-31st, 2008 in Cambridge MA.

Prizes will include an OLPC XO, various tech goodies, OLPC swag and a SURPRISE PRIZE.

If you want to attend, but don't want your name to appear on the attendees list, contact Brian at bcjordan gmail.

Types of teams:

Professional developers (suggested: teams of 2-4)
Independent developers / mixed (suggested: teams of 2-4)
Youth developers (suggested: teams of 2-4)
Level designers
Remote developers (suggested: 1-4 team members) - Takes place online.
Staff and support (graphic artists, musicians, sound designers, video producers, event supporters)

Instructional events:

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.
Brief introductions to git and source control, wikis, and the XO hardware
How to package an activity for Sugar

Visit our wiki page for more information: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Physics_Jam

Prizes include:

An XO developers program laptop
Various swag from XO accessory retailers XOExplosion and ilovemyxo
Other prizes that will be announced at the beginning of the jam (contact bcjordan gmail to donate a prize for the event)

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When

Friday, August 29, 2008 at 5:00 PM
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Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 5:30 PM (ET)

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1 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142

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