A particular video game within one of the company's arcades
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Once each event ended, the arcade closed, and we couldn't share the games anymore.Įach October, we hold an internal event called We Are Red Hat Week, and this company-wide celebration of our culture seemed like an excellent opportunity to give the arcade a new and permanent location. The arcade was perhaps even more popular as a virtual event feature- attendees were spending an average of 40 minutes playing the games during the events.īut the arcade lived fleetingly in each of those events and their individual platforms. We then took the virtual Red Hat Arcade to many of the other events we would have taken the physical arcade to in 2020-IBM Think, Open Source Summit, KubeCon, and others. We couldn't take the arcade cabinets to attendees, but the events we participate in still wanted the games, as they've been a highly popular engagement activity for attendees.įortunately, as all of the games in the arcade were built with web technologies, it was easy to embed them in the assorted virtual event platforms being used, starting with Red Hat Summit in April 2020.
A PARTICULAR VIDEO GAME WITHIN ONE OF THE COMPANY'S ARCADES SOFTWARE
Later, this led to several games that were playable on the Command Line Heroes Arcade cabinets that you may have seen at Red Hat Summit, Open Source Summit, KubeCon, or other software events in the last two years. We had built games that were being used in the Red Hat booth at conferences, starting with a game called Customer Portal Engage, built around the Leap Motion Controller. Among them were myself and Principal Software Engineer Michael Clayton.
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The Gaming CoP formed out of the intersection of interests of Red Hatters around the company who had been working on projects of interest to the game industry. Not only are we passionate about games, but the industry is also adjacent to other areas that are important to Red Hat and to the world, from the automotive industry to scientific simulations. One of our newer Red Hat Communities of Practice (CoP) is dedicated to gaming and the video game industry. Red Hat would like to see that change, and this year we launched Red Hat Arcade, where you can play open source games built by Red Hatters using open source tools, assets, and engines. Video games are not commonly known for being open source-either themselves or in their development.