[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Free From Malaria Game

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:53 AM, World Class Project- Dev Team <
develop at worldclassproject.org.uk> wrote:

>  Hi
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> Thanks for the feedback. Please see responses below:
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> >The activity is on a limited CC licence that may not allow local
> modifications?
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> The images are not meant to be modified since it contains material and
> information about health and we want to maintain the integrity of the story
> to the information displayed. All text is rendered as fonts and strings and
> a future release with Pootle annotation will be provided in order to allow
> translation and localisation.
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There are more disease associated to mosquitoes. In my country Dengue have
the same preventions and the game will be very useful. Probably there are
more situations where a modification of the game will be useful for a
particular deployment.

Gonzalo



>the activity you see a list of game controls that are not clickable, and
> after wondering what to do, eventually someone found the "lets play" in grey
> at the bottom of the screen
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> We will change the front end so that the menu is more obvious and with
> working buttons.
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> >Felt a bit weird being a mosquito and one tester just couldn't do it,
> biting children
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> When you say "one tester couldn't do it" do you mean, was not able to work
> out how to play the game or found the concept too difficult/distressing to
> deal with? The idea of the game is to impress that mosquitoes can find their
> hosts in the dark and that exposed limbs are most vulnerable.
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> >Would be good if you could click on the map of your country and see if it
> said yes or no
> malaria
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> In the next release we aim to have disease maps of all endemic countries.
> We won't have a yes/no format but more a graphical representation of where
> P.falciparum is more likely per continent/endemic country. The answer is not
> straight forward yes/no so a coloured map would be more useful.
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> >I hope there can be more in a series of health interactive stories
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> We plan to make more content on hygiene and communicable diseases. This was
> our first attempt at Python/Sugar but we hope to make more interactive
> content.
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> Thank you for your comments and feedback.
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> World Class Project
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>  On 22 June 2010 at 23:25 Tabitha Roder <tabitha at tabitha.net.nz> wrote:
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> > Hi World Class Project
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> > Not sure if you have seen this yet. Here is what I wrote in our testing
> > feedback on the weekend:
> > Tested FreeFromMalaria on os802b6. The activity is on a limited CC
> licence
> > that may not allow local modifications? What does that mean for
> > localisation? Can it be translated? Can you add local Malaria variations?
> On
> > starting the activity you see a list of game controls that are not
> > clickable, and after wondering what to do, eventually someone found the
> > "lets play" in grey at the bottom of the screen. Felt a bit weird being a
> > mosquito and one tester just couldn't do it, biting children. Would be
> good
> > if you could click on the map of your country and see if it said yes or
> no
> > malaria. Good adaption of a book. Its not so much a game, but an
> interactive
> > story. I hope there can be more in a series of health interactive
> stories.
> >
> > We post testing feedback on testing at lists.laptop.org so you may want to
> > follow this - http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Tabitha, olpc NZ volunteer
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Gonzalo Odiard
Responsable de Desarrollo
Sistemas Australes
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