Hi Mark, I'm interested to hear feedback from people here, but you may be able to get feedback from teachers and kids with a little more work.
The most communicative user base is in South America. You can get the most feedback by sending your request to http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur You should send the e-mail in Spanish. Let me know if you want help writing or translating that e-mail. You should also make sure your activity is available in Spanish but you can ask for help translating it on the sur list too. If you need info on how to make it easy to translate your activity you can try the localization list: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization The main English language deployment is Birmingham, AL but they aren't up and running in schools there quite yet. Another smaller one is in St. John in the Virgin Islands: http://waveplace.com/locations/usvi/ (they may need a personal visit come winter :-) If you want to hear from the US Give One Get One user base you can try posting something on our forum: http://en.forum.laptop.org/ and you can send something to OLPC News: http://www.olpcnews.com/ Its great to see developers reaching out to users in the alpha or beta stage of development! My only other suggestion is to contact your target user before you start coding. That way you have a vetted beta community and have the best chance to build something you know they want. Great looking activities! I'll see if my kids have a chance to look at them too. HTHs. Thanks, Greg S ****************** Hello, My student Nolan Baker and I have been developing three educational games (COBBLE, Space Tag and Cell Management) in Sugar this summer, and we would love to have your feedback on their alpha and beta versions. We've posted links to the .xo files on the main Activities page and have a wiki page for each game. COBBLE COBBLE stands for COllaBorative Board game Learning Environment. COBBLE can be seen as a game system, where we provide the pieces, and you provide the rules. Our goal is to make COBBLE as flexible as possible, so that users can play any game just by interacting with the objects and chatting about the rules in the chatbox. Currently working are the Die, which can be created and rolled. Cobble is in the alpha stage, more will be updated soon. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/COBBLE Space Tag Space Tag is a fast paced, action packed, playground thriller that's out of this world. Immerse yourself and a few of your buddies (after all, sharing is important) in an overhead pseudo 3D world filled with fuzzy physics. This was educational for us to learn about incorporating mesh into a game, and hopefully educational for students to read the code and learn about forces in physics. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Space_Tag Cell Management Our first game, to learn about development with Sugar. Aliens have abducted 6 species from Earth, and your goal is to coordinate their efforts to escape. This game is based on regulatory networks found in RNA and DNA transcription and translation. The full rules for Cell Management can be found at http://www.piecepack.org/rules/CellManagement.pdf http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cell_Management Thanks for your comments, hope you find them fun and useful. Mark Goadrich _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
