Let's turn our tents into videogames! Making games for fairy lights
Workshop by Ben Kirman (he/they) 👪 🎟
Friday from 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM in Arcade Workshop
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In this workshop we'll power-up our tents and campervans by making them interactive. We'll be working with tiny Raspberry Pi RP2350-based devices, strings of LED fairy lights, and buttons to make playable games that can run from a power bank. You will need to buy a kit to participate, which contains all the bits to make your own game. The kit is £28 (cost price) which should be paid by phone/computer at the start of the session. You will also need to bring a computer with you to do some light programming. If your computer only has USB-C ports, it will also be useful to bring a USB-A dongle, or a USB-C - USB-C cable with you (but we'll have a few spare on hand). If you have the Tildagon badge, you can use the lanyard! You do not need any experience programming, we will help you get everything working and help you through making some simple games. If you have experience with Python you can enhance them further and make your own new ideas, and if you have experience with electronics, you can add different controls. We'll also talk through how to design games for 1 dimension, share some examples, and talk about some the weird stuff you can do when your computer is tiny and your television is just a really long wire. We'll turn the campsite into an arcade, one tent at a time!
| Attending this workshop will cost | £28 for the kit |
| Suitable age range | ~12+ |
| Attendees should bring | You will need to bring a laptop for doing some coding, and ideally a USB-C cable to connect your laptop to the devices we will use. You can optionally bring a USB battery pack, that you can use to power your game without it being attached to your computer. |
| Drop-in | Not a drop-in workshop |
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