Collaborate on a Game Jam with RIT Game Development Club (RGDC)

[jwflory]

Summary

Collaborate on integrating open source into a RIT Game Development Club (RGDC) game jam in Spring 2020 semester

Background

At our end-of-semester debriefing, we shared feedback from folks on wanting to see more collaboration with gaming orgs at RIT. @whenbellstoll is involved with RGDC, and we decided this would be one of his efforts alongside LibreCorps next semester.

Before jumping in headfirst to hosting a game jam, we want to do a couple of promotional events and talks at a few clubs at RIT to help build awareness for a FOSS game jam. This semester is an experiment – we haven't tried this before and we don't know how it will go. If it's successful, we can turn this into a recurring event. If it isn't, that's okay – at least we tried.

Details

We discussed a few steps of what this will look like across Spring 2020:

• @whenbellstoll: "FOSS and Gaming" presentation for RGDC
• @Devinaut: "Linux + games" presentation for @RITlug if he is willing (cc: @Tjzabel @jrtechs)
• Define open source judgment criteria / guidelines for a FOSS game jam
• Brainstorm open source honorifics for game jam prizes

Potentially we could tap the shoulders of some alum friends to see if they can throw us a bone on some free company swag or giveaways.

Outcome

Increasing the reach of FOSS@MAGIC's mission by collaborating with more student organizations at RIT

[jwflory]

@WillNilges This might also be something you are interested in, RE: giving an open source/Linux + games talk at RITlug! ^^

[Nolski]

I would like to share @brendan-w's breakout clone that you can play in any terminal emulator and also deletes files every time you break a block as inspiration for future FOSS game jams.

https://github.com/brendan-w/rm-out

[ghost]

Oh, files previously specified by the user, not files picked by the program. chaotic-lawful rather than chaotic-evil I was a little worried there at first, but now I am excited to try this out ... sometime.

[jwflory]

@Devinaut is giving the Linux + games talk tomorrow! 👍 https://ritlug.com/announcements/2020/02/21/w06-linux-gaming/