<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi,<div><br></div><div>Wow! I like it!</div><div><br></div><div>I need see more, and test it, but it works good!</div><div><br></div><div>Only a comment:</div><div><br></div><div>In the <span style="font-size: 12pt; ">activity.info: remove all comments (more clean view) and change the</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> deprecated "service_name" for "bundle_id"</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards!</div><div><br></div><div>Alan<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 02:01:20 -0400<br>From: acbart@vt.edu<br>To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>Subject: [Sugar-devel] Broadway - A play-writing game<br><br><div>Hi Sugar-Devel,</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4602" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4602</a></div><div><br></div><div>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: "<i>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."</i></div> <div><br></div><div>Broadway is written using Pygame, and additionally uses <a href="https://github.com/rdeaton/spyral" target="_blank">Spyral</a> for handling sprites and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pgu/" target="_blank">PGU </a>for user interfaces. It is somewhat similar to the <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Story_Builder" target="_blank">Story Builder</a> 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.</div> <div><br></div><div>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 <a href="http://servo.cs.wlu.edu/pubs/bitstream/handle/id/277/acbart-honorsthesis.v3.pdf?sequence=1" target="_blank">thesis</a>), 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 <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Integrated_Writing_Environment" target="_blank">PyGTK application</a> 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.</div> <div><br></div><div>If you would like to try out Broadway, please <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4602" target="_blank">check it out</a> and tell me what you think. The <a href="https://github.com/acbart/broadway.activity" target="_blank">source code</a> 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.</div> <div> <div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>~Cory</div></div> <br>_______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</div></div> </div></body> </html>