Exactly! I'm very familiar with Pygame already, and the girls are all working together on a simple project right now to get them comfortable with Pygame as well.
Maybe a better word than framework is a template: A sample game they can look at when they are coding their game. We've got five game types that most of the girls are designing their games around, so we're looking for 5 templates: 1) Maze game: similar to PacMan, but possibly with a question to answer every time the character picks up an item in the maze 2) Adventure game: the character moves through a world or a story, and must solve problems or answer questions when they meet another character 3) Strategy game: user makes several decisions that affect the game's outcome; user learns the consequences of each decision 4) Practice drills: most of these are centered around math problems or vocabulary 5) Arcade game: some sort of action must be done by the user using the keyboard or mouse; emphasis is on speed and accuracy -- Clare -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ethan Glasser-Camp Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 5:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pygame] Introduction + call to join project for creating game frameworks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ian Mallett wrote: > Pygame is a wrapper for it that grants easy access to graphics, > and thus enables fast development of games. In short, it is the > "library" you're looking for. There are sample games on pygame.org > that teach basic concepts of pygame, and of course, there is this > list. Can you tell us more about exactly what sort of projects you > want to be working on? For example, a blank window: I think the original poster is looking for something more like pygsear: http://www.nongnu.org/pygsear/ In other words, the idea is to get the highest-level tools for game design that can be used with the least pygame- or Python-specific knowledge possible. Besides pygsear, which I personally haven't used, I'm not sure what else there is. There's the LiveWires stuff, but it's aimed at teaching Python rather than any particular project. That's at http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/ Hope this helps! Ethan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHAsDIhRlgoLPrRPwRAkaTAKCcgzEdfvruGqv0v21hlokR76CIPwCg2R+W VCrj6EGKAVo/ixCI2/4dNZ8= =ICbH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
