great work!!
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Media Note : )I was able to snap tons of pictures and record some videos for the day, capturing a lot of GCCIS and Innovation Center. Let me know where to get the media, and I shall.
ImagineRIT stories --> Fortune Hunter Team : )
Table Talk
Demoing our game, Mathematical Adventure: Fortune Hunter, for XO was extremely helpful for the development process, as well as a fantastic opportunity to network with lots of important people. Our table basically provided us mass user testing all day long and was a great way to gauge people's responses and interests to our mission within both our game and XO free open source software as a whole. Our team piqued the interest of hundreds today as we gave extended talks and demos of our game and other software currently running on the XO. We could have easily sold, on the spot, at least a hundred XOs alone at our table. Among the extended attendees at our booth were many educators and children, who were taken by the concept and hopefully now pursue obtaining XOs for education and/or personal use. We plugged OVC (open video chat) a lot, as well as the RITserver hosting textbooks and FileShare. They all have generated interest for the XO and, believe me, are in high demand. My team did a fantastic job spreading the word; FOSS!
FLOSSing Our Smile : }
Some amazing opportunities for FOSS and for us...
A few important people worth note who had interest in the mission (providing no cost, open source software to those in need) were able to interact with us and the XOs and have decided to help in big ways. A phone developer told us he would love to see our game go multiplatform and come to android and iPhone, and provided us some insight on the best ways to go about that. For now, we'll worry about finishing for XO, but its nice to know that people have a general interest in Fortune Hunter. Early in the afternoon, we began speaking with a woman who only mentioned prior to talking to us that she was 'in the biz'. Afterward, she revealed herself to be the president of a toy and games company, (probably not smart to blog names) having worked for video game companies such as Activision and having personal connections to SONY. She was so very pleased with our work that she offered her company's support to help the FOSS program. In addition to that, she offered us herself as a point of contact to the above-mentioned video game giants. Just goes to show that you never know who's watching and it's always great to take the time to meet people and present yourself.
The next amazing privilege we had was to explain FOSS to an unknown, foreign man who later revealed himself to be the Prime Minister of Kosovo! He was excited for our game and the XOs and is now very interested in bringing them to Kosovo to use in the classrooms. In one fell swoop, doing something as simple as hosting a table at ImagineRIT, we were able to turn the heads of some large figures in the world and we are honored to have such attention to our game and the FOSS program. Who'd have thought, just eight short months ago when we started development on Fortune Hunter, that we'd be afforded such opportunities. IMAGINE the possibilities! (corny, I know)
~ M (^^^) A (*0.o*) F (^^^) H ~
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~ jON mESCHINO
bS vIDEO gAME dESIGN & dEVELOPMENT (igm)
4TH yR @ RIT
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