Gone Coding
X48 is well and truly underway. The teams have been thinking, designing, and coding now for nearly five hours and there are some brilliant concepts floating about. As you may or may not know about X48, the games are to be made to follow a theme. This theme was kept pretty secret until today when it was unveiled by Mr. Charles Darwin seen here:
The theme, if it weren’t already obvious, is EVOLUTION. It’s Darwin’s bicentennial you see, and Channel 4 Education along with Microsoft wanted to tie this all in and encourage original ideas that educate and inspire as well as entertain.
For we are still alive, and we are doing science!
We’ve been filming things ALL DAY with the Flip Ultras and Minos kindly provided by Flip Video. They’re great little gadgets and we’ll be giving some away as prizes. Speaking of prizes, we’ve not announced them on here yet…so here’s what they’re working for:
First prize – 4 passes to Develop including travel and accomodation, as well as a Flip Mino camcorder each.
Second prize – A Flip Mino and £50 Amazon voucher each.
Third prize – A Flip Ultra each.
Check out the X48 Vimeo group where student teams, mentors and organisers will be uploading content like nobody’s business. You can also keep up on the action on Twitter, and use the #x48 hashtag if you want to join in.
Team Aberystwyth from Richard Birkin on Vimeo.
