[Sugar-devel] Broadway - A play-writing game

[Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn]

Hi,
Wow! I like it!
I need see more, and test it, but it works good!
Only a comment:
In the  activity.info: remove all comments (more clean view) and change the deprecated "service_name" for "bundle_id"

Regards!
Alan

Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 02:01:20 -0400
From: acbart at vt.edu
To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: [Sugar-devel] Broadway - A play-writing game

Hi Sugar-Devel,
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4602
I hope this is the right place to post this. I just finished the first public release of my XO game "Broadway" and I'd like to let the greater XO community know about it. My quick pitch for it: "Broadway is a play writing game where you create a script, choose a backdrop, add some actors, and then watch your creation come alive through animation and text-to-speech."


Broadway is written using Pygame, and additionally uses Spyral for handling sprites and PGU for user interfaces. It is somewhat similar to the Story Builder software, which also uses PGU; however Broadway is more advanced and stable (thanks to many bug corrections I have introduced into PGU). I admit that the source code is really bad in some places (filePanel.py is a nightmare in particular), but I've done my best.

I've been working on this game a little over a year now. I tested an earlier version in a classroom (which was for my thesis), and made revisions based on that. I'm now releasing an experimental version of the game to collect feedback and hopefully have it used in actual educational environments. My long-term plan is to rewrite Broadway as a PyGTK application with more powerful writing tools and resources (e.g. spell checking). For now, since I have other commitments that take priority in my life, I'm going to keep patching this pygame Broadway based on any input I receive.


If you would like to try out Broadway, please check it out and tell me what you think. The source code is also available. If you have suggestions for places I should post to instead of this listing, please let me know! I've been working with XOs for a while now, but I still don't know much at all about the community.



Thanks,~Cory

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