{"id":20,"date":"2014-09-16T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T19:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2014-09-16T19:47:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T19:47:20","slug":"white-house-game-jam-neifletter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"White House Game Jam: NEIFLetter #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WHGJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12\" src=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WHGJ-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"WHGJ\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, DAM was invited to take part in the first ever White House Game Jam, featuring games created by\u00a0teams from Disney, Sony, Ubisoft, Rovio along with several other gaming studios, educational games makers and academics like ourselves. \u00a0It was an incredible experience that we are grateful for having taken part in. \u00a0Also making the trip were the ETC&#8217;s Drew Davidson and the\u00a0Culyba duo, Dave and Sabrina, whose game design advice was especially helpful with limited time to produce our game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Culybas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14\" src=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Culybas-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Culybas\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was some debate about how much emphasis needs to be put into the educational side of educational games, but ultimately we decided to focus on making sure the game is fun as our top priority. \u00a0If it is fun then the kids will want to continue to play it, increasing the likelihood of the educational aspects actually sinking in. \u00a0We at DAM don&#8217;t think games being fun and educational are mutually exclusive at all and that theme was emphasized heavily throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Alex-and-David.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15\" src=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Alex-and-David-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Alex and David\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After bouncing around a few different game ideas we decided on pursuing a math angle with some help from one of the math educators on hand. \u00a0We arrived on the idea of Piecewise functions, which are functions that are defined by multiple subfunctions, each subfunction applying to a certain interval of the main function&#8217;s domain. \u00a0In less technical terms, Piecewise functions act differently on different pieces of the x axis, breaking up into different pieces, hence the term Piecewise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pwlinear_nonconvex.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16\" src=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pwlinear_nonconvex-300x217.png\" alt=\"pwlinear_nonconvex\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may seem complicated, but you can learn more just by\u00a0watching the video we made for the presentation in the White House Complex here or from actually playing the game:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DAM -  The Piecewise Fort Incident\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csgbCodlkxk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Playable Mac Build:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.noteverythingisflammable.com\/files\/TPFI.zip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noteverythingisflammable.com\/files\/TPFI.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.noteverythingisflammable.c&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playable PC Build:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.noteverythingisflammable.com\/files\/TPFI_PC.zip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noteverythingisflammable.com\/files\/TPFI_PC.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.noteverythingisflammable.c&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We slept very little over the course of the weekend, culminating in a sleepless night before final submissions were due. \u00a0This would not have been possible without Learning Objects for hosting us and the events sponsors for allowing us to fight off sleep with a\u00a0constant supply of coffee and Monster energy drinks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Monster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17\" src=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Monster-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Monster\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was an incredible experience and a huge honor to take part in. \u00a0We were blown away by the creativity from all of the teams and all of the great feedback and interest we received for The Piecewise Fort Incident.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and we met Obama too:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20\" src=\"http:\/\/noteverythingisflammable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1251-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1251\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, DAM was invited to take part in the first ever White House Game Jam, featuring games created by\u00a0teams from Disney, Sony, Ubisoft, Rovio along with several other gaming studios, educational games makers and academics like ourselves. \u00a0It was an incredible experience that we are grateful for having taken part in. \u00a0Also making the trip were the ETC&#8217;s Drew Davidson and the\u00a0Culyba duo, Dave and Sabrina, whose game.. <a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/?p=20\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}