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Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!
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Paul Sutton |
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Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament! |
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Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:33:43 +0000 |
On 30/12/2021 08:34, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
Hello!
I was just casually glancing through my email inbox and this caught my
attention!
Recently, I have become convinced that a viable way to start a new
collaborative society is through community efforts in having fun, developing
our own video games together and by extension, creating rich interactive
educational content! Not only the content itself, even the process of making
the game itself can be made into an educational content (like the show
PowerNation 😆)
I am discussing with a few people and hopefully we will start to do something
next year 😄.
In my opinion, Education is the key to everything, and in terms of computer
programming, it is the way to simplify software with better algorithm, rather
than mindlessly putting together unaccountable libraries (NPM??)
Cheers,
Yasu
Hi Yasu
This sounds like a good idea, however at times I feel we end up just
reinventing the wheel with things.
There are lots of platforms out there, that teach programming,
https://www.freecodecamp.org is one, https://www.codecademy.org is
another, with the former their tutorials go beyond the courses on offer
and cover a whole range of areas, including making games.
I have put info below at [1] on a recent free code camp course.
Perhaps we can make use of these existing assets, while people can
follow the courses, surely the language is the same, e.g c/c++ just the
tools used can vary, so here we would prefer to use the gnu tools for
example.
Many assets are shared via youtube, so we can do the same via peertube,
I am on Diode.zone but the other instance I am on qoto.org for
mastodon also hosts a peertube instance, so perhaps make use of what is
already there.
Make more use of Mastodon for communication too, this will hopefully
have the effect of showing Mastodon is not only active but has engaging
and education conversations too.
Given the huge number of choices and options out there, it is really
confusing for people as to where to get started with learning . I set
up a forum at
https://forum.tuxiversity.org/
to try and address some of this, so if you want to study say web design,
then where do you start, html is the same, different courses will teach
you pretty much the same content, lets help people take the first steps
and support them.
The biggest problem is person power, people having the time to dedicate
to creating the content and supporting people with that.
People need to earn money to buy food, pay bills and put a roof over
their heads, so if someone is going to take the time / effort to learn
something then at the end of that there HAS to be doors opening in to
paid work.
Perhaps as part of this, where there are jobs wuth say nextcloud, or
other free software projects we, can see what skills are needed and
perhaps help taylor education to help fit some of these requirements
Lets explore your ideas further
Hope this helps
Regards
Paul
References
Recent offering from free code camp
"
1. We did it. We built a video game. It took 8 months, but Learn To Code
RPG is now live, and you can play it for yourself. In this visual novel
video game, you learn to code, make friends, and apply for developer jobs.
It features original anime-inspired art and a jazz soundtrack written
and performed by me. There are more than 600 Computer Science concept
quiz questions, dozens of Easter eggs to discover, and multiple endings.
And it's all open source.
It runs on PC, Mac, and Linux, and we'll soon publish mobile versions of
the game, too. You can also watch the 1-hour "let's play" video with
Ania Kubow and the game's developer, Lynn Zheng. (fully playable 3 hour
game): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-rpg/
"
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