[tpm] Hackathon or presentation format for Game Development with SDL perl

[Kartik Thakore]

Since this topic is split across some threads I decided to make a new one.

So is the hackathon for sure what we are going to do on the February
meeting? Or does someone else want to do just graphics/GUI Perl presentation
with me?

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Mike Stok <mike at stok.ca> wrote:

>
> On Feb 1, 2010, at 9:21 PM, Abram Hindle wrote:
>
> > Mike Stok wrote:
> >>    * How many people would be interested in hackathons?  Last year
> >>      Kartik mentioned he might be able to do a game hackathon In
> >>      February.
> >
> > I don't understand what hackathon means in this context. To me a
> > hackathon is a bit more than 2 hrs and it has people getting together
> > and hacking on one or more related projects.
> >
> > Maybe I misunderstood.
> >
> > If that is the case I propose bootstrapping such a hackathon with a bit
> > of a tutorial as a meeting. An interactive perl mongers where people
> > should bring and share laptops and hack at a tutorial game.
>

This is the plan. I have a brief walkthrough then we will make a simple 1
script game. And Mike is suggesting we do a real hackathon on a weekend
after people had some time to play.


> >
> > There is a possibility of a quasi-hackathon-type of meeting. The
> > presenter provides source code & maybe content. For instance Kartik's
> > game hackathon could also be spun as a meeting. If one made a tiny game
> > framework, like a boardgame/logic game or a pong like game or a breakout
> > style game or just a jumping scrolling platformer. Then allow room for
> > modifications. The meeting could be a walk-through of the some
> > possibilities. How small changes to rules can change the game, etc.
> >
> > This kind of meeting could bootstrap a hackathon ;)
>

Agreed!


>
> That's the kind of thing I had in mind.  There was a Ruby hackathon a while
> ago where we got some space off Tucows for a Saturday or Sunday and had
> agreed on a project before hand.  I think it lasted about 6 to 8 hours.  The
> thing I observed was that quite a lot of time is spent getting up to speed
> if people aren't familiar with the project, so some up front planning and
> preparation could have made it more effective.
>
> If people have been to successful hackathons and have an idea about what to
> do and what not to do then we could avoid some obvious pitfalls.
>
> Maybe a meeting which gives an overview of the material and what might be
> achieved would be step 1, and the hackathon could happen soon (inside a
> couple of weeks?) after that.
>
Does anyone have a

>
> I think that 2 hours is a little short for a "real" hackathon, especially
> if there are setup wrinkles (e.g. no working network !)
>

Yeah the no network may suck.  Does any one any ideas of the venue for a
weekend hackathon?

Kartik Thakore
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