[OLPC-Games] Kuku Activity

[DJ Gallagher]

That's awesome. I hope y'all are as excited as I am by what you've already
accomplished.

On a similar note, team VKL is also interested in achieving completion, if
not polish, and could use help in several categories. I'll be posting the
specifics to the project's wiki page <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Poblano>,
and the code is in subversion at this
location<https://olpc.coderanger.net/svn/poblano/>.
In brief, we need art, we need sound, we need our sugar bundle configs
idiot-checked and (most of all) we need some serious help with
cleanup/refactoring from someone who knows how to work pygame (that is, once
I've gone back through it and documented to reduce the code archeology
factor). I wish I could be banging on this stuff a lot harder myself, but 40
hours a week of bouncing between web languages is really taking it out of
me.

Regards,
-DJ Gallagher

On 6/18/07, Julius B. Lucks <julius at younglucks.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> The Kuku team recently did a bunch of work on Kuku Anakula during the OLPC
> Game Jam.  The kids (and us!) had a great time, and we would like to polish
> things up in time for the June 25 mini-content release.  To that end, we
> would like as much feedback as possible.  The code needs a lot of
> refactoring to be sure, but we would mainly like to know how to improve the
> game design.
>
> The game is a number munchers clone for the XO, and at this point uses
> simple multiplication questions, with plans to expand the question content
> in the future.  Right now we have a start screen, followed by game play
> which ends when the three lives are gone, or five questions are answered
> correctly.
>
> The description of the game with screenshots can be found at
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kuku
>
> Instructions are there for getting the latest code version as well.
>
> Alternatively, you can get a tar file of the latest code at
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~lucks/Kuku.tar.gz<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Elucks/Kuku.tar.gz>
>
> This is all ready to go for running on an XO (just untar in an activities
> directory), and should also run on any machine that has python (2.5) and
> pygame (1.7.1) installed by going inside the Kuku.activity directory and
> typing
>
> python kuku.py
>
> We would love any feedback you can give.  Please reply to the list, or
> edit the Kuku talk page (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Kuku) to add your
> thoughts and suggestions.  In particular, it would be very useful to have
> feedback on game play design in terms of progression of question difficulty,
> and any other ideas to keep the kids interested in the game.
>
> We appreciate it!
>
> Team Kuku
>
>
>
>
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