[math4] FourthGradeMath Digest, Vol 16, Issue 4
Jonathan Meschino (RIT Student)
jam2707 at rit.edu
Fri Oct 15 14:40:58 EDT 2010
Hey Math4! (attn Karlie)
The following is a list of vital items team Fortune Hunter is in need
of. We are awaiting theses things in order to progress the project as a
whole and would love any and all assistance.
I'm working to compile a very specific tasks list (and will update
them as tickets on wikis as well) and will send that when I hammer out all
of the details. What would actually be extremely helpful would be some
programmers. Currently, the team is lacking any experts in that realm and to
be honest, they would probably save us a whole lot of time and help us
progress much further to push and get more done. I would absolutely love to
get Fortune Hunter and Fortune Maker out of the sandbox and start getting
them localized. Here are the things we are waiting on before we do another
release:
Maybe would be helpful to just mention Fortune Hunter is an
educational rpg/adventure dungeon styled game (aka you travel through
dungeons, defeat enemies, level up, equip items, etc all while learning
math!) and Fortune Maker is a sister application that allows custom content
creation for Fortune Hunter to use. wiki for both:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fortune_Hunter
Fortune Hunter 3.0 and Fortune Maker 1.0 are both available as
experimental on activities.sugarlabs.org
~ Fortune Hunter release 4.0 ~
- finish porting over old code to new code (for those reading who don't
know, we completed a prototype version of the game in python prior to
rebuilding it with improved code. Both projects are located in the same
repository on git.sugarlabs.org)
-need lose condition
-we currently do not have a lose condition (you get
defeated by enemies when your HP reaches 0) in our revised code. The
structure exists in the original project and needs to be copied or rewritten
to utilize the new engine.
-need merchant system
-the merchant system is a shop used to buy and sell
in-game goods via a bargaining system. Again, it exists in the old project
and needs to be integrated with the new code.
-need door slider puzzles
-we are lacking puzzles in the new code as well. We
had build slider puzzles on some locked doors that must be solved to gain
access. Code exists and needs to be integrated over.
-match content
-once the above-mentioned are complete, we just need
to compare the two versions and get them to match as far as content goes.
This would essentially complete the release qualifications we
were aiming for by the holidays. We would also love to have the following
done by then as well, but they are not essential.
-Fortune Maker update (tasks still need to be broken down, but if
anyone is interested in the meantime, i will work with them)
-update GUI (art)
-improve functionality
-successfully output Fortune Hunter maps/dungeons
-Fortune Hunter integretion
-successfully read and generate content created by Fortune
Maker
One other thing we are lacking is professional artists. If anyone is
interested in this, head on over to our wiki @
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fortune_Hunter and go to the Game Elements tab,
where you can see what the art style is and a list of what needs art yet.
Likewise, download and play the game.
Thanks any and all for the help in advance! Much appreciated and I
look forward to working with some more peoples ; )
~Jon (KnightMearh)
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> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:28:14 -0400
> From: "Jonathan Meschino (RIT Student)" <jam2707 at rit.edu>
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> Hi Karlie,
>
> Well our immediate goals are to finish porting over the first
> iteration of the game into the new code, catch the new version up entirely,
> and then make a release. We could surely use help from coders. The major
> items left are to a) rebuild the merchant system (in-game shop), b)
> recreate
> a game-over state, c) rebuild the puzzle system (slider puzzles are what we
> had, but more puzzle types would be awesome in the future). After we
> finish
> rounding off the new code, we'd like to contact some translators at Sugar
> to
> get the game into spanish and any other languages that they are able.
> Spanish is the primary solely because we could begin receiving large
> feedback due to the number of end users. In addition, we'd like to start
> continuing work on Fortune Maker, a sister application to FH. It is a
> content creation tool where you may build your own levels, enemies, and
> story. From there, we have a lot of ground to cover in the realms of code,
> art, design, testing, debugging, pretty much everything. So if anyone is
> interested, please contact me and I'm glad to bring you up to speed! Our
> wiki is located at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fortune_Hunter - there you
> will find the repo and anything you'd want to know about Fortune Hunter and
> Fortune Maker.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
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> > Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:35:37 -0400
> > From: "MARK THILL (RIT Student)" <mrt8449 at rit.edu>
> > To: David Nalley <david at gnsa.us>
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> > Hi David,
> >
> > Here is a link to our wiki and code repo:
> >
> > wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/transbot/
> >
> > repo: git://git.fedorahosted.org/transbot.git
> >
> > Transbot was forked from a project named lingo bot that was abandoned and
> > we
> > could not get in contact with the upstream. As far as I can tell from the
> > source code, lingo bot was not orginonally based on any other bot. It
> uses
> > the python API irclib to interact with IRC and the Google translate API
> to
> > handle the translating.Right now we are looking at continuing to clean it
> > up, give it increased functionality and find a way to make it faster.
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:06 PM, David Nalley <david at gnsa.us> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:04 PM, MARK THILL (RIT Student)
> > > <mrt8449 at rit.edu> wrote:
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > > My name is Mark Thill I am a 3rd year Computer Science major at
> > Rochester
> > > > Institute of Technology. I am currently working on trasbot, a
> > translator
> > > bot
> > > > for IRC. Transbot is planned to be ported to the XO later in
> > development.
> > > > Let me know if you are interested in helping out. Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > ~Mark Thill
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> > > Hi Mark:
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> > > Can you point us to a repo of your code.
> > >
> > > Are you basing your bot on something like supybot, or starting from
> > > scratch?
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> > Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:56:42 -0400
> > From: Karlie Robinson <karlie_robinson at webpath.net>
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> > On 10/11/2010 10:19 PM, Jonathan Meschino (RIT Student) wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > My name is Jon Meschino Mathematical Adventure: Fortune Hunter
> > > (wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fortune_Hunter
> > > <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fortune_Hunter>), an adventure RPG based
> > > math game for XO.
> >
> > > hoping to get the project polished and translated before the holidays.
> > > We are always looking for opinions and help, and in any way possible
> > > so feel free to step forward if you become interested. Thanks!
> >
> > Jon,
> >
> > Do you have any specific help you need? Bug testers? Code? It might
> > help us figure out what resources to send if you could nail down a
> > couple things.
> >
> > ~Karlie
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> bS vIDEO gAME dESIGN & dEVELOPMENT (igm)
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> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:42:02 -0400
> From: Karlie Robinson <karlie_robinson at webpath.net>
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> On 10/14/2010 02:28 PM, Jonathan Meschino (RIT Student) wrote:
> > From there, we have a lot of ground to cover in the realms of code,
> > art, design, testing, debugging, pretty much everything.
>
> Ok, that initial list gives us something to work with.
>
> Do you have anything more specific than
> https://fedorahosted.org/fortune_hunter/roadmap to guide your release
> cycle?
>
> Can we narrow it down and start working out exactly what's blocking you
> from releasing by the end of 2010?
>
> I'm aiming for the Pythonista's meeting tonight at RIT. If you'll be
> there maybe we can break out and begin roughing out a more comprehensive
> schedule and figure out what talent is needed to hit your benchmarks.
>
> ~Karlie
>
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~ jON mESCHINO
bS vIDEO gAME dESIGN & dEVELOPMENT (igm)
5TH yR @ RIT
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