That's awesome. I hope y'all are as excited as I am by what you've already accomplished.<br><br>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
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Poblano">wiki page</a>, and the code is in subversion at <a href="https://olpc.coderanger.net/svn/poblano/">this location</a>. 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.
<br><br>Regards,<br>-DJ Gallagher<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Julius B. Lucks</b> <<a href="mailto:julius@younglucks.com">julius@younglucks.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>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.
</div><div><br></div><div>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.
</div><div><br></div><div>The description of the game with screenshots can be found at</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kuku" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kuku</a></div><div><br></div><div>Instructions are there for getting the latest code version as well. </div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, you can get a tar file of the latest code at</div><div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://dev.laptop.org/%7Elucks/Kuku.tar.gz" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://dev.laptop.org/~lucks/Kuku.tar.gz</a></div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><div>python kuku.py</div><div><br></div><div>We would love any feedback you can give. Please reply to the list, or edit the Kuku talk page (
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Kuku" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Kuku</a>) 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.
</div><div><br></div><div>We appreciate it!</div><div><br></div><div>Team Kuku</div><div><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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