Nordic Game Jam/Resources

This is a resource collection for the Nordic Game Jam; enjoy hacking the XO laptops!

Example Activities

• PyGame Hello World
• PyGame Snake in 100 lines
• More example Activities

Readings

• Pygame
• Game development HOWTO
• Programming_the_camera
• Reducing PyGame CPU Load

Tools

• Python 2.5 (.msi)
• Pygame (.exe)
• Py2exe
• Putty, WinScp
• Eclipse (+ pydev, subclipse)

Version Control

• assembla.com
• subversion
• TortoiseSVN

Emulation

• QEMU (OLPC Bundle)
• VMWare

Even more readings

• Game_Development_Newbies
• Game_development
• Creating_an_Activity
• Activity Handbook
• Wikipedia:OLPC

Videos

• The vision behind the OLPC Project