Publishing Your Game

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Topic Summary: In this topic you will learn about publishing your fully functional game on the Wiki and how to request that it be published as a featured game in the PLAY area of the MySLife Global Climate website.


Topic Assignments

Polish up your Game page

Make sure your game page includes ALL the key assets you created during the course:

  1. Your initial Game Idea
  2. Your Team Members (user names, photos and links to profile pages)
  3. Your Paper Prototype
  4. Your Updated Game Plan
  5. All versions of the game .SWF movie files
  6. All versions of the game .FLA source files
  7. Any other assets you created for your game (characters, sound files, research, etc.)

Check our this complete Game page for inspiration: Fix it with Food


Post your game in the Game Gallery

Include the following information:

  1. A screen shot of your game
  2. The name of your game
  3. A link to the final game .SWF movie
  4. A link to your Game page


Submit your game to be published on the PLAY channel of the MyGLife Website

Please send the following information to games AT myglife.org:

  • Your Name
  • School Name
  • Final .SWF and .FLA files for your game
  • A link to your Game page


Project ownership and the Open Source movement

An open source license is fundamentally and philosophically different from copyright, in that it gives everyone access and the right to use, edit, and republish a piece of software for public use. No one the right to own/make money from it, including you, the author.

We use open source licenses for MyGLife content because we want to share our content for educational purposes. As a participant in MyGLife, you agreed to develop your game in an open source community.

We suggest that you add an Open Source license to your game when you are ready to publish it. GNU is our recommended Open Source licensing option:

1. For software licensing: GNU

GNU is the gold standard of open licenses and is used by Linux. Here is how they describe their philosophy:

“Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:

  • The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
  • The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
  • The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
  • The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3).

Access to the source code is a precondition for this.”

GNU is recommended by OLPC to its developers: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_on_free/open_source_software

Here is how GNU is described in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License

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