[Tux4kids-discuss] GSoC Game Idea (to promote open source softwares)

[Pere Pujal i Carabantes]

yash upadhyay <yash256 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>While working on open source projects, and thinking how not many people
>contribute to them or don't know about them, I stumbled on the idea to
>make
>a game that teaches players about open source projects.
>
>*Game Idea:*
>I want like to propose a game in which Tux the player glides on snow
>and is
>encountered with icebergs that have Linux commands, names of open
>source
>organizations etc or Windows commands written on them. If it hits an
>iceberg that is related to open source softwares, it gains points else
>it
>loses points.

Up to here I'd say that this has more chances to get picked by the GNU project




>The game can also have a reference section of facts about Linux, its
>commands etc so that users can use  it to improve their knowledge too.


What about  Tux swimming on the sea,  jumping on icebergs, each iceberg is a world(a theme maths history, open source...)
Each world has different subworlds(maths->geometry arithmetic...   history->prehistory,antique...)
This could be a fun reference browser, you could even build a game on it.
The only problem I see is filling the worlds with data...

HTH
Pere