Re: Educational software and games

[Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>]

In message <351FACC6.60A2@csrlink.net>, dloss@csrlink.net writes:
>You know, since much of the commercial educational software (like Oregon
>Trail and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?) is essentially game
>software with different goals than standard games, should we try to
>enlist the help of the various Linux game programming groups here? 
>Would the PlayPenguin Project (I may have gotten the name wrong) be a
>good place to start?

Actually, speaking of the PenguinPlay project, they lost their host server
a week or two ago. I sent mail to the group leader saying that if they
hadn't found another host we at seul might be able to work something out.
I have gotten neither response nor news from elsewhere of the group. If you
know anything new, please let me know...
(Old website is http://www.ultranet.com/~bjhall/GSDK/index_old.shtml)

But in any case, yes, it's a very good idea to find other groups out
there that are Doing The Right Thing on apps, or can be convinced to.
The Apps dev group shouldn't write all the apps they want. That would be
insane.

I'm in the process of describing to the devgroup leaders what I want in
each section of the development website. One of those sections is a set
of links to useful resources or other projects working on the same goals
as that dev group. The theory here is that if we can get some actual
documentation (faq plus links per dev group) on the website, then we can
keep organized in attracting new workers. Hopefully you'll hear more
about this in the next few days...If somebody here wants to collect a
partial list of links and post it, preferably with summaries of each
organization, that would be Really Cool.

--Roger