[Sugar-devel] Enhancement suggestion - Maze

[Wade Brainerd]

I love the faces!  Joshua, what do you think about Gary's change?

-Wade

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
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> On 29 Nov 2009, at 09:15, Tim McNamara wrote:
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>> Something I would like feedback on. After several sessions playing Maze with 6 year olds, I've noticed that it's sometimes very hard to distinguish the difference between opponents if they have the same core colour. E.g. blue w/ light blue stroke is hard to distinguish from blue w/ dark blue stroke. I think a solution would be to increase the stroke width. This would make the distinguishing factor easier to see.
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>> Any thoughts?
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> You could give it a quick try and see if it helps:
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> 1) look in the directory ~/Activities/Maze.activity
> 2) edit the text file called player.py
> 3) at line 45 note the line that says "border = size / 10."
> 5) change it to read something like "border = size / 5." to double the thickness (see attached screen shot):
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> Testing such changes on real children would be gold class feedback! :-)
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> I'd like to suggest a different change to try. How about a simple face inside the circle to use more of the stroke colour? Here's my quick hack on the code, with screenshot, if you want to give it a try (if folks like this face idea, shout and I'll submit a proper patch):
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