Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

[Paul Sutton]

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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