[Sugar-devel] Draft proposal GSoC 2023 - Improve and maintain 13 sugar activities

[Riya Jain]

Thanks for the response Ibiam and Walter.

> The project idea you're referring to is "Improve and maintain 12 sugar
activities" not "Improve and maintain 13 sugar activities"
I am selected a total of 13 activities, but the task in two activities is
similar, if you say so, I will rename it accordingly

- In response to the score, highscore and other competitive features, I'll
make them optional wherever implementing them and would also specify this
in my revised proposal

- Regarding block party activity, The bottom rows would have more value if
a line is broken on them, so to be specific : the board has 20 rows and for
the bottom 5 rows we get 50 points and for the next 5, 40 points and for
the next 5 30 and so on, this also leaves room for further board expansion
in future.

- I will update my proposal which includes the task said by you in
falabracman-activity.

- Mancala-activity does not have collaboration.

For the UI enhancement, I have attached a file which contains the images.
They just provide a rough idea on how I plan to implement the same, and I
might think of a better way in future.
Also I thought of including keyboard support in Math-hurdler, where the
options A,B,C,D can also be selected through the keyboard, I will include
this as well in my proposal.

Thanks.



On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 at 20:29, Chihurumnaya Ibiam <ibiam at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> Hi Riya,
>
> Thanks for sharing, the project idea you're referring to is "Improve and
> maintain 12 sugar activities" not "Improve and maintain 13 sugar
> activities".
>
> I think the time taken to complete, score, and high score features should
> be optional so as not to remove the fun from the game for some kids that
> timing the thing
> they do puts pressure on.
> You can have a button in the toolbar for these that's insensitive by
> default and these features only work when they're sensitive.
>
> Ball and brick activity: Powerups sound awesome!
>
> Block-party-activity: "Score fixing" what do you think is a great way for
> this to affect the score, say a number of lines equal what score to be
> added?
>
> Falabracman activity: I don't think the randomness should be fixed as it
> teaches an important lesson of things having an end and that's also how the
> game session ends.
> What can be done though is to increase the difficulty by adding more
> obstacles as the game goes on and pushing back on when the game ends.
>
> Math hurdler activity: What do you think would be an ideal point
> difference between the difficult levels?
> You point out what you think is wrong with the UI but nothing about if and
> how you intend to do anything about it.
>
> Sonic Jump: You mention redesigning the UI but no images of the old vs the
> new.
>
> Mancala activity: Is collaboration working fine, did you test it?
>
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --
>
> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
> ibiam at sugarlabs.org
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 11:46 AM Riya Jain <riya1jain567 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone, I wanted to share my draft proposal of GSoC 2023, for
>> project Improve and maintain 13 sugar activities.
>> Any review and feedback is accepted.
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