So true, nothing like the challenge of trying fixing a broken game by exploring and poking about at the code.<br><br>I had a good laugh at one lad last year who tried to change the demonstration Gamemaker streetcar racing game so that the cars would drive on the LHS of the road. He got distracted create sprites made up from photographs of his friends faces.
<br><br>Some girls stayed back at lunchtime last week playing with the open source software Inkscape to create their own clipart from mobile phone photographs (I put a handout on the VITTA website that explains how to do this)
<br><br>I'll certainly repeat this as an activity for Software Freedom Day. Bring on those rainy days :-)<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 27/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rupert Russell
</b> <<a href="mailto:rupert.subscriptions@gmail.com">rupert.subscriptions@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>> "I feel much of the time is unproductive and purely for amusement and<br>> entertainment "<br><br>>>A possible solution to this that I have used is the rule that if playing a<br>>> game, they must have editable source for it. They may play for a while but
<br>>> then the challenge to hack the source takes over.<br clear="all"></div>
<div>I find that Gamemaker works well like this, I find that my own kids enjoy </div>
<div>tweaking the games that I make using Gamemaker. </div>
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