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

[Austin Bart]

When I first started the game, I decided that since there would be
animation involved, I should stick with Pygame instead of using PyGTK. I
regret that decision, both because of the non-standard UI and the nightmare
that was PGU. But yeah, the PyGTK version will definitely take advantage of
Sugar icons!

~Cory

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

> Looks like a really good idea for a activity.
> Should be good see a better UI integration with Sugar.
> By example, a lot of the buttons can be moved to a standard toolbar.
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Austin Bart <acbart at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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<https://github.com/rdeaton/spyral>for handling sprites and PGU
>> <http://code.google.com/p/pgu/>for user interfaces. It is somewhat
>> similar to the Story Builder <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/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<http://servo.cs.wlu.edu/pubs/bitstream/handle/id/277/acbart-honorsthesis.v3.pdf?sequence=1>),
>> 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 <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Integrated_Writing_Environment>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<http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4602>and tell me what you think. The source
>> code <https://github.com/acbart/broadway.activity> 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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