Flock 2013, OLCP Games, Gamification through Badges on Linux

There were some game development related events at Flock Fedora Contributor Conference, August 2013 in lovely Charleston, SC, US.

Trigger Rally Map Workshop 

So far my contributions to Fedora were merely a few wiki edits but my conference proposals were well-received.

Free Art Game Making presentation slide

I ended up speaking about making games using free art and leading a Trigger Rally level building workshop (video).

Fedora badges

At the conference, I learned about Fedora's badge program and that it is connected to Mozilla Open Badges.

Lemonade Stand (OLPC) Sugar "activity"

Another discovery: Lemonade Stand, which is an educational game developed by people from FOSS@RIT, who work on bringing Mozilla Open Badges to the OLPC.

Game development appears to be getting more and more of a foot in the door at free software conferences, so I encourage people working on open games to apply as speakers at conferences, talking about technical and social aspects of free, open source game development project leadership and contribution. (Not just at FOSS events, why not at general game dev events as well?)

If you have any relevant talks from recent events to point out, please do so in the comments!

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AltDevConf 2012 Videos Under Creative Commons Attribution

AltDevConf 2012 videos have been released under CC-BY license. None of them seem to be directly related to open source but most should still be relevant and apply to flosgame development.

Programming Track

• The Integrated Influence Architecture – Combining Reactive and Deliberative AI for NPC Control by Luke Dicken
• Cross Platform Game Development in C# by Matthieu Laban, Philippe Rollin, and Miguel de Icaza
• Control, Configure, Monitor and View Your Game Engine From the Web by John McCutchan
• Understanding the Second Generation of Behavior Trees and Preparing for Challenges Beyond by Alex Champandard
• Real Time Area Lighting – Now and Next by Sam Martin
• PowerVR Hardware Architecture and Application Performance Guidelines by Gordon MacLauchlan
• Dynamic Global Illumination by Wolfgang Engel, Tim Martin, and Igor Lobanchikov

Education Track

• Centred for Excellence – The Challenges Inside Abertay’s Games Programmes by Ken Fee
• Building Better Rubrics Using Game Design by Ian Schreiber
• Educating the Next Gen. by Alex Darby
• More than Software and Theory by Heather Decker-Davis

Design & Production Track

• Intro to Producing for Mobile: how to “go indie”, actually ship an app, and not die by Evangeline Marzec
• “Scrum Bowling” : Agile Production Methodology for Indie Teams and Student Projects by Margaret Moser
• How to create a positive online game developer community by Ryan Arndt
• Effective PR, Marketing, and Community Management in the Indie Games Space by Erik Johnson
• Operant Conditioning in MMORPG’s by Mike Grimes
• Game Over! Exit Strategies for Persistent Games by Ian Schreiber
• Junk Master Series, Design Approaches, Issues, and Best practices by Wasin Thonkaew

Beyond this post, these videos will continue to be available under the official AltDevConf YouTube Channel!

For example the following video is definitely relevant to donation-based development, which can be seen in some free, open source game projects.

video: Effective PR, Marketing, and Community Management in the Indie Games Space

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Complete List of Fosdem Game Dev Resources

A link to some Fosdem Resouces has been already posted here before, but now we have a complete list of available slides and audio and video recordings from the event:

Event	Slides	Audio	Video	Speaker
Xonotic: The road to 1.0	Yes	No	No	Merlijn Hofstra
FreedroidRPG: Anatomy of a RPG	Yes	Yes	Yes	Arthur Huillet
Unknown Horizons: Data-Driven and Component-Based Game-Entities	Yes	Yes	No	Thomas Kinnen
WorldForge: The Dynamic Data Driven Worlds	Yes	Yes	No	Alistair Riddoch
Pandora: Mobile Linux Computer with Gaming Gontrols	No	No	No	Michael Mrozek
Wesnoth: Balancing a Game the Open Source Way	Yes	Yes	No	Jeremy Rosen
Ogre3d: Getting Started with Game Development	Yes	Yes	No	Erik Ogenvik
Gluon: Game Creation and Distribution	Yes	Yes	No	Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
The Future of Open Web Gaming	Yes	No	No	Rob Hawkes

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