[OLPC-Games] Game framework development

[Roberto Fagá]

Hello Clare!

I think there were three Summer of Code projects in game development:
mine (Adventure/Storyteller creator and some game libs/engine),
Lincoln's (most of his work was OLPC-Games wrapper with PyGame) and
Patrick's (Platform maker) projects. Not sure about the others, but
mine project isn't done (usable), and is intentioned to be usable by
children, but add-ons and tests will be great too. And I made some
libs too which can help in 'multimedia' games, or games which can be
made by flash.

You can find my project there:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ISIS

Anyway, I can help you with PyGame (sadly just by internet), and help
more after November. Also, there are some 'frameworks' (better saying,
libs) which help on development too, take a look at some of them:
http://www.pygame.org/projects/9 . But I think, as your class wants
many different game genres, they'll need help from coders if they
don't want to code.

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On 10/1/07, Clare Richardson <clare at girlstart.org> wrote:
> What is the status of creating game frameworks or engines in Pygame for
> easier game development? I believe there was some work done for a Summer
> of Code project, but I can't find anything on the wiki about it.
>
> We've got a real need for this at Girlstart, since we have 50 - 60 girls
> designing and developing their own games starting in Jan '08 (see my
> previous email re: Project IT Girl for details). We want to make sure
> this isn't a project management nightmare! We need usable frameworks for
> different types of games to make it easy for them to succeed in writing
> their game.
>
> Who would be interested in working on this in the next 3 months?  We
> need to work out some details, but we have funding we can put towards it
> and we have the girls' preliminary game ideas. We just need YOUR Pygame
> expertise and time!!
>
> Clare Richardson
> Technology and Program Coordinator
> Girlstart
> clare at girlstart.org
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