[OLPC-Games] Introduction

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On Sep 17, 2007, at 10:08 PM, Team XO wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We (four of us) would like to introduce ourselves to the list.   
> (That is if this list is still active?)  We are four students at  
> Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center who have begun a  
> semester long journey into making games on the XO.  We have run  
> into some road blocks along the way and are asking the general  
> development community for some help.  So here goes...
>
> 1. Has anyone successfully run a game using PyGame on the XO?  We  
> have launched 2 of ours successfully on the emulator, but the XO we  
> have trouble with.

Yep, quite a few in fact.

>
>
> 2. Specifically, the activity.py file in the olpcgames folder  
> distributed with PyGame activities raises an exception and says  
> "attribute error 'module' has no attribute 'GRID_CELL_SIZE'" this  
> only happens on our B2-7 development machine but not in the emulator.

It is possible that a recent version of sugar has broken the pygame  
API. I will try and look into it when I find a free moment.

--Noah