<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Platinum Arts <<a href="mailto:platinumarts@gmail.com">platinumarts@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi my name is Michael Tomaino and I work on a project called Platinum Arts Sandbox which makes it easy for kids and adults to create their own 3D worlds, games, levels, quests, etc.  The software is free and open source and currently being used in many schools throughout the world.  I have used it personally to teach in various schools and I've seen work from kids as young as six.  I do have some of the kids work from a summer camp I taught if you'd be interested in seeing it.  Here is a review of the software: <a href="http://www.gameculture.com/node/597" target="_blank">http://www.gameculture.com/node/597</a> We will also be appearing in the Total PC Gaming magazine out in February. Here is our tutorial video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g44Ww2bg2_E" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g44Ww2bg2_E</a> Here is a video interview of me and it has some shots of the work kids did at the summer camp: <a href="http://www.moddb.com/games/platinum-arts-sandbox/features/noesis-presents-moddb-tv-sandbox-interview" target="_blank">http://www.moddb.com/games/platinum-arts-sandbox/features/noesis-presents-moddb-tv-sandbox-interview</a> Our homepage is: <a href="http://kids.platinumarts.net/" target="_blank">http://kids.platinumarts.net</a> As a note we have just been voted one of the top 100 game projects at moddb out of over 5k.  Please head to our webpage and see the instructions on how to VOTE FOR US to be in the top 10! I originally started this project for kids that were in my before and afterschool program at an elementary school.  That is one of the reasons it is free and open source, I want kids to be able to have total access to it.  If I could get this to kids all over the world it would be a dream come true!  I'm really interested in getting Sandbox into as many linux distros as possible.  As a note we are preparing a "debian free" and "non free" package to be included into Edubuntu.  Please let me know what you think and I'm very willing to work with you however I can to make this a reality.  Take care! -mike -- <a href="http://Kids.PlatinumArts.Net" target="_blank">http://Kids.PlatinumArts.Net</a> Free Open Source 3D Game Maker / Game Design Software Check out <a href="http://PlatinumArts.Net" target="_blank">http://PlatinumArts.Net</a> ! It features movie reviews, stories, free video games and more! _______________________________________________ Games mailing list <a href="mailto:Games@lists.freedesktop.org">Games@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/games" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/games</a> </blockquote></div> I see that you use a download counter for getting the game.  I maintain a repository of something called SlackBuilds, which are scripts that make Slackware packages out of source packages, etc.  Note that we don't actually offer binary packages, just a way for end users to build them.  With this in mind, is it okay with you to link directly to the source? -JK Wood Maintainer of Slamdbuilds repo <a href="http://github.com/JoshW/slamdbuilds/">http://github.com/JoshW/slamdbuilds/</a>