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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Invisibility cloaks; stealth armour; invisible jets – a team of physicists at Scotland’s University of St Andrews have made a breakthrough that could make these items a reality.
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On the weekend of August 29-31, teams of game developers will join the OLPC Physics Game Jam in a race to create a unique physics-based game for the One Laptop Per Child XO Laptop.
An OLPC Jam is a sort of intense workathon where developers, artists, and other ‘creatives’ throw themselves at a problem over a short space of time. Previous Jams have created educational and medical resources for use with the OLPC in developing countries and the organisers are confident that the talented geeks putting themselves forward for the Physics Game Jam will come up with something special.
All the code will be open source, so it is not impossible that the games created in the Jam will see the light of day in web-based games or other platforms down the line.
If you have any coding, game design or artistic chops and fancy helping out, get in touch here. There are prizes — including XO laptops and other goodies — for the best creations, plus a lovely warm feeling from helping a good cause.
OLPC Physics Game Jam For an XO [Slashdot]
