Author: jesse
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Promouvoir la diversité avec les jeux open source @ Capitole du Libre
Voici mon talk sur le projet IncLudo en fin 2017 au Capitole du Libre, à Toulouse.
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Lessons learned making a visual programming language to remix open source games – Talk at Scratch conference in Bordeaux
The Scratch Conference last week in Bordeaux was so inspiring! Beyond the success of Scratch itself, the community is developing an approach to education based on tinkering and exploration rather than passive listening. My talk was a bit out of place, because RedWire was not meant for kids, or even to learn programming, but it…
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Seven Years in Alpha: The Thumper Postmortem
A real “indie” spirit runs through this story of 7 years of game development, some part-time, some full-time. Marc shows the demos along the way that so that you see the major departures. It’s inspiring to see how they moved from an ugly grid based world to this beautiful haunting wonderland. Especially when he explains…
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Junkyard Sports with a virtual Bernie
Let’s discover fun by repurposing, reusing & upcycling old things and creating new games! During this play session, we (re) designed physical games, changed the goals & the rules of existing ones, and playfully explored new possibilities on adapting sports activities to almost any environment and for everyone. Bernie de Koven, one of the founders…
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New Games Outside #2 – Playing for Bernie
Let’s go play in the park again! Last September, we played a bunch of fun games invented in the 1960s and 70s as part of the New Games movement. Then we made up our own. We’ve just learned that one of the founders of this movement, Bernie de Koven, has stage 4 cancer. But this…
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Can Open Source Open Minds? at FOSDEM 2017
In the IncLudo project, we are making open source games to promote diversity in the workplace. After a year of building and testing game prototypes, we want to share what we’ve learned about bias, empathy, icebreakers, taboos, and board games while pursuing this important but challenging goal. The speaker is Jesse Himmelstein, coordinator of the…
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New Games Outside – quick intro
Recorded in Parc de la Villette in Paris, September 5, 2016. Thanks to Mourdjen Bari for filming, to Benjamin Misiak for carrying heavy boxes, and to everyone who came out for making this a great event despite the rain! For more info on what New Games has become, check out Bernie de Koven’s site http://www.deepfun.com/