{"id":85,"date":"2008-03-19T00:17:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T06:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/19\/fun-with-the-olpc\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T00:17:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T06:17:56","slug":"fun-with-the-olpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/19\/fun-with-the-olpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with the OLPC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday and today I worked with Mike Fletcher and had a great time porting a couple of my games to the OLPC \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imitationpickles.org\/melons\/\"><strong>Watermelons<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/olpc-melons.jpg\" title=\"olpc-melons.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/olpc-melons.jpg\" alt=\"olpc-melons.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imitationpickles.org\/elephant\/\"><strong>Elephants<\/strong><\/a> (pic taken with an XO!)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/blah.jpg\" title=\"blah.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/blah.jpg\" alt=\"blah.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a great time working on this &#8211; though a couple of odd bugs in the dev. environment proved to be a bit bothersome, we were able to get through them.  The main product of this effort was the creation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/Porting_pygame_games_to_the_XO\">&#8220;port your pygame game to the OLPC&#8221; tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, I also gave an impromptu talk on networking games to help an OLPC group get some good ideas on how to write an easy to use networking API for their games.  A fair portion of it explained how I implemented networking in Galcon.  The other portion explained how &#8220;I did it wrong &#8211; and you should do it some other way such as _____.&#8221;  Richard Jones and Mike Fletcher also attended and chipped to help explain the bits that I glazed over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday and today I worked with Mike Fletcher and had a great time porting a couple of my games to the OLPC \ud83d\ude42 Watermelons Elephants (pic taken with an XO!) I had a great time working on this &#8211; though a couple of odd bugs in the dev. environment proved to be a bit bothersome, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,2],"tags":[36,34],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamedev","category-pygame","category-python","tag-olpc","tag-pycon2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}