[Sugar-devel] Minecraft-like Activity?

[Walter Bender]

Rubin has done some work in this space.

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I thought I'd forward this interesting note from a friend of a friend :)
>
> I wonder if any of
> https://opensource.com/life/15/9/open-source-alternatives-minecraft
> could be sugarized :)
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tom Higgins <tomhiggins at gmail.com>
> Date: 1 May 2016 at 21:37
> Subject: Re: [FoRK] OLPC?
>
> Back when OLPC first started bubbling up the bits I was very excited seeing
> as I had a couple of prime candidates for their use. As time went on other
> options came to be, OLPC slipped into the background. Sugar held my
> interest for longer than the hardware. I played with various versions in
> vms. I tried to get the kids using Sugar On A Stick  but by then they had
> already gotten used to an easy Linux gui and Android devices.  Rule of
> thumb, if it can not run some version of Minecraft its a no go. At a
> certain age range Minecraft is the social and educational must have
> program.  They each have a Pi to play around with and a Lubuntu box as
> their main rigs, we even went in for the Piper Box, which is much used.
>
> I noticed  while back there was Sugar had a port for Android but that ship
> has sailed.
>
> And so it goes, for my uses at least. I was a great promise and a fantastic
> idea, other things came up on the other lanes though and like many great
> ideas was left behind.
> I would love to hear that it took hold in those areas it seemed a great fit
> for.
>
> -tom
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>
> Date: 1 May 2016 at 23:39
> Subject: Re: [FoRK] OLPC?
> To: tomhiggins at gmail.com
>
>
> offlist
>
> Hi Tom
>
> Great stuff! May I forward this feedback to the sugar devel list? :)
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tom Higgins <tomhiggins at gmail.com>
> Date: 5 May 2016 at 20:39
> Subject: Re: [FoRK] OLPC?
> To: Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>
>
>
> Sure thing. I think being a geek dad and my kids being the ages they
> are we were are not sugar/olpc's best target. I love seeing it being
> used though. It is a good step towards a truly universal Young Persons
> Illustrated  Primer.
>
> -tom
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