Fans can submit their best video game ideas and join free
coding workshops with Microsoft
REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft
Corp. and Warner Bros. are tipping off an epic partnership,
celebrating the release of the new movie "Space Jam: A New Legacy,"
coming in 2021. The campaign launch teams up Xbox with basketball
champion and cultural icon LeBron
James, Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes Tune
Squad to amplify coding education and create an original Xbox
arcade-style video game inspired by the movie.
As announced on his Instagram, LeBron and
Bugs Bunny are on the hunt for the best fan-submitted video game
ideas. Starting Dec. 14 through Dec.
30, fans aged 14 and up can visit the official
contest website to review
official rules and submit their game ideas. To enter, fans select
the gaming genre of their choosing using a key image, and then
describe the game idea in less than 500 words.
Two winners will have their ideas brought to life in the
official "Space Jam: A New Legacy" arcade-style video game,
available as a Perk for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members in 2021.
Winners will also receive the following prizes: their names
featured in the game credits; an exclusive winner's bundle with
signed and authenticated LeBron
James memorabilia, "Space Jam: A New Legacy" merchandise and
Nike VIP packs, and a personalized Xbox Series S console; a private
friends and family screening of the
film; and a virtual Microsoft coding
workshop for their local community.
To help coders of all ages jump-start their creativity,
Microsoft Stores are hosting free, one-of-a-kind
"Space Jam: A New Legacy"-themed virtual
workshops on video game creation. Students will
build a playable prototype of a video game using block-based coding
on the MakeCode Arcade platform, while learning about the
professional skills and STEAM careers involved in game design.
Additional resources and other free workshops that teach new
skills and keep kids entertained this holiday season can be found
on the microsoft.com virtual student workshop
page.
There are also two film-themed Microsoft
Learn lessons, targeting more experienced coders, older teens,
high school and college-aged students, and adults, that focus on
how to use player stats to
make real-time decisions in the middle of a game.
The first lesson includes predicting efficiency ratings with
machine learning and Visual Studio Code, using data
from human and Tune Squad basketball players. The
second lesson includes building a web app that uses additional
machine learning models in real time to help a coach decide
who needs a water break and who should be put in the game
to yield the highest likelihood of winning.
The video game contest, coding workshops and lessons align with
Microsoft's greater skilling initiative, which
aims at helping 25 million people — including
those from underrepresented populations —acquire new digital
skills and apply them to their passions.
ABOUT SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY
Welcome to the
Jam! Basketball champion and cultural icon LeBron James goes on an epic adventure alongside
timeless Tune Bugs Bunny with the animated/live-action event "Space
Jam: A New Legacy," from director Malcolm
D. Lee and an innovative filmmaking team including
Ryan Coogler and Maverick
Carter. This transformational journey is a manic mashup of two
worlds that reveals just how far some parents will go to connect
with their kids. When LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a
digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by
leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of notoriously
undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over the A.I.'s digitized
champions on the court: a powered-up roster of basketball stars as
you've never seen them before. It's Tunes versus Goons in the
highest-stakes challenge of his life, that will redefine LeBron's
bond with his son and shine a light on the power of being yourself.
The ready-for-action Tunes destroy convention, supercharge their
unique talents and surprise even "King" James by playing the game
their own way.
ABOUT MICROSOFT
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft)
enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud
and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and
every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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