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Love to play - can't login

Submitted by DNice on Mon, 2011-12-26 19:25

I downloaded a copy of Code Hero but I can't login.

Here is more Unity training to explore!

Submitted by lxpk on Wed, 2011-12-07 07:08

Check out Unity3DStudent.com they have amazing videos. Here is one to get you started! http://www.unity3dstudent.com/2010/07/challenge-c03-beginner/

When is the beta coming out?

Submitted by diegomojar on Thu, 2011-11-24 16:22

hey guys let me know when the beta is coming ou tI really want to play this game isnce im starting with Java righ tnow.:) this woul dseem a great way to learn!

 

thnx

The Raybecca Code Dare

Submitted by lxpk on Wed, 2011-11-23 08:45

I just posted the Raymond Code Dare to inspire my friend Rebecca to keep learning Unity and she challenged me right back so I'm going to be posting daily tips to encourage anyone who is taking the Dare and working to learn Unity. Here's the conversation:

LX: Do you accept?

R: The Raymond Challenge you mean? I will on the condition that you post a short tip on learning Unity each day to your blog, as public 'mentorship' to all of us Raymonds! 

LX: Tip 1 is the 101. Do you remember the making a cube, dropping in a character, etc. stuff?

R: It's harder than it was when you showed me... If you make a blog post about it that might help.

LX: http://primerlabs.com/unity101 That's a start. I will make it fancier later and keep posting daily tips here. Now it is the Raymond & Rebecca Challenge! ( so as not to be male-centric ).

So for all you Raymonds & Rebeccas interested in taking the Dare, post about what you're doing every day to play with Unity and I'll write another post each day to give you more things to learn and do.

The Raymond Code Dare

Submitted by lxpk on Wed, 2011-11-23 08:03

If you had 30 days to become a game developer or lose everything, what would you do? I met a guy at the SF VNV Nation concert who was sad. He wanted a VNV Nation hoodie but he couldn't pay his rent if he bought it. I decided to call him Raymond.

I asked, "What do you do that you can't pay your rent?"

"I work at the Academy of Art," he said, sighing.

"Isn't that a place that teaches game development?"

"I wish I was a game developer! I serve food in the cafeteria."

I bought the hoodie from the nice man at the merch table.

I found Raymond, thrust the hoodie into his hands and grabbed him by the shoulders:

"RAYMOND! WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE, A GAME DEVELOPER? IF YOU'RE NOT ON YOUR WAY TO PLAYING CODE HERO,  LEARNING UNITY GAME DEVELOPMENT AND MENTORING KIDS AT GAMEBRIDGE UNITYVERSITY IN 30 DAYS, YOU WILL BE SAD - AND YOU'LL HAVE TO RETURN THIS VNV NATION HOODIE!"

We're going to see what he is capable of and I'll post updates for the next 30 days about our bet. I am going to mentor him but I am also winning if he gives up because I really want the VNV hoodie!

Do you think Raymond will show up for Unityversity and earn his future and his hoodie?

Do you have any words of advice for Raymond?

I encourage you to take the Raymond Code Dare too:

Push yourself to learn Unity for the next 30 days starting when you read this. Comment when you start the challenge and comment when you need encouragement or are on your way to shipping something after 30 days!

DO YOU ACCEPT?

First Post: Help me help immortalize Alan Kay and Doug Engelbart in the Humantheon Code Hero Hall

Submitted by lxpk on Thu, 2011-11-17 05:29

In my first "blog post" as a Code Hero team member I'm asking for your help to capture the essence of two of the greatest code heroes who have ever lived, Alan Kay and Doug Engelbart. Please consider how you can help immortalize our legendary hackers in Code Hero Hall in the days ahead because we've just lost Steve and Ritchie and McCarthy and now our dear friend Ilya at age 22 and we are losing too many heroes and we could lose any of us at any second before we have time to put our legacies into words and worlds and pathways for future hackers to follow in our footsteps. It brings me to tears to think how young we lost Ilya while the greatest programmers who've ever lived are still alive with us today and that we still have time to enlist their help inspiring the greatest hackers who will ever make their mark on tomorrow.


Ilya Zhitomirskiy touched many people's hearts at Noisebridge, and embodied the hacker spirit.
As a member of our family he will forever remain in our hearts.

Today is November 17, 2011 and I've lost track of how many days of crunch this makes it since we began pushing towards preordered private beta release to our supporters.

Today I met Alan Kay the founder of object oriented programming and graphical personal computing who handed the technological torch the XEROX PARC team created in the first Alto to Steve Jobs and Apple to ignite the affordable Macintosh. All I know is, we're about to talk to Alan Kay and Doug Engelbart the father of mice and bootstrapping and so many things in one mother of all demos that you just have to watch it yourself. I'm talking to Alan and Doug about immortalizing them in the Humantheon Code Hero Hall.

I want you to submit interview question ideas and mission scenarios for Code Hero that you could imagine playing through to capture some of the genius of these greats to relive their foundational achievements, to help them with their Bootstrapping Collective IQ Initiative and Viewpoint Institute educational research today, and to take their innovations to a whole new level with something big and bold that helps invent the future so we can solve our greatest problems faster enough to reach escape velocity.

Please comment with your questions, scenarios and immortalization ideas here or email me at questions@primerlabs.com.

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