Here is a post that might grow as we go... with plans for ZIM in 2025
Over the 2024 holidays we will redo the Learn JavaScript with Creative Coding.
This series was 40 videos and matched the ZIM Skool Curriculum. Unfortunately, the vids were in ES5 in ZIM TEN with Atom. So we will bring these up to ES6 in ZIM 017 with VS Code and update the ZIM Skool to ZIM017.
We expect ZIM 018 to come out in the summer.
There is nothing particularly planned for it so requests are welcome. Maybe improved Cam, maybe work better with Spline.
See if we can get some more people in the forums, etc. Thanks for the folks responding here... but could use more than a handful of emojis when launching major versions. Two handfuls would be good! Any suggestions, let us know.
One would think our target market would be on CodePen. Perhaps we should see if we can do another $500 sponsorship of the CodePen Challenge in the new year. Not sure if it brought in people - we have also left messages on about a hundred pens from people who follow ZIM - but that does not seem to have gotten us a single communication. It is hard to tell, unless we go back and look to see if they responded to our messages to come visit us in the forum. If you are here from CodePen... let us know.
We did $500 of ads on Google pointing them to ZIM and the new Forum and tracked it. Not one person joined from the ads.
We have run contests with $1000 worth of prizes and not one new person joined from various social media posts about the contest. We did have a few of us play @EducaSoft - did you do something... that was in ZIM TEN. @amihanya + @frank + @valeria were judges @Jamesbrrtt did you judge too? Or enter?
I think we need a famous app. What platform? Mobile Stores? Yuck. I heard that Telegram supports HTML apps. Maybe something like New Grounds? It is hard to compete with all the Phaser games and buzz.
Or we need to get an influencer to support ZIM. Working on influencer ideas... we have a few potentials. If anyone knows of any influencers, DM us. It would be nice if you actually have contacted them or can give an introduction. We can always just cold-call, but so far that has gotten us nowhere. @karelrosseel82 has pointed us to a half dozen contacts and we contact each one - no response.
Other Frameworks / Libraries... try and work with Rive... need to contact people there... tried hiring an animator to work our way into the culture... it was 50 messages back and forth and a good try... just perhaps the wrong vision on our side. Tried hard with three.js and got a few retweets... tried to get on the front of three.js with TextureActives and Mr Doob replied the way to get on the front of three.js is to not ask to get on the front of three.js. The front has not changed in years... not sure how adding TextureActive could hurt... sigh. Posted 20 or so posts on their forum and discord and got a couple likes... and that's it. Frustrating.
unless I'm the only one who try?
Thanks to believe and update to spline as rive is already supported.. I think for 3D and major VR updztes with hand tracking Oculus quest3 and Dpad and gamecontroller games more people will join ZIM.
Hi Dan,
My apologies for being disconnected. It was my Dad's funeral on Monday and it's been a busy 20 months prior. I totally missed the Edusoft competition! Will try to do better.
I did have a couple of thoughts for people to contact. In the UK there's a chap called Martin Bailey. He's a BETT judge every year, runs his own company and a very busy deliverer of computing training in schools. He posts a lot on social media coding-wise. The other person I thought of was Daniel Shiffman from The Coding Train YouTube channel? He sometimes takes on guests to show art through code.
There actually might be good news, since it looks like they want me to lead a Belgian project about using XR to facilitate teaching certain math subjects. I was only made aware of this yesterday (so the timing or your therapeutic ramble might be perfect). I do have a Quest3 and even have some experience coding for it using unity, but quit that after I discovered that you can as well make little experiences in WebXR. Then I tried some stuff in AFrame and BabylonJS. I must admid that at this moment Babylon looks the best tool for my needs, but.... I haven't realy studied the possibilities with ZIM and XR (but I saw some demo's). So maybe I should have a good look at these and try to pick up where I left
