[Yr7-10it] Tweaking Gmaes

[Roland Gesthuizen]

So true, nothing like the challenge of trying fixing a broken game by
exploring and poking about at the code.

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.

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)

I'll certainly repeat this as an activity for Software Freedom Day. Bring on
those rainy days :-)

Regards Roland

On 27/07/07, Rupert Russell <rupert.subscriptions at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "I feel much of the time is unproductive and purely for amusement and
> > entertainment "
>
> >>A possible solution to this that I have used is the rule that if playing
> a
> >> game, they must have editable source for it. They may play for a while
> but
> >> then the challenge to hack the source takes over.
> I find that Gamemaker works well like this,  I find that my own kids enjoy
>
> tweaking the games that I make using Gamemaker.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Rupert.
>
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