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These are some thoughts about topics for the ILXO game jam. Focus is on Python Pygame based game development.

Hierarchy of how various modules fit together

Your Game

Application class libraries -- Physics Game

olpcgames

Abstracts Sugar interface

Pygame

Python 2D game oriented class library

OLPC wiki pages

That you should be familiar with

Development environments

Native, Cross, Emulation

Native

Pippy

Develop

IDLE

Cross

IDLE or other Python environment on another computer

Emulation

Sorry, I don't have a computer powerful enough to emulate the XO well, so I haven't explored this.

Getting your game to the community

Getting in the git