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Re: [pygame] Introduction + call to join project for creating game frameworks

You might have your students look at the pyweek entries (http://pyweek.org) since they were written in a week they should have manageably small codebases, and they cover a wide variety of game genres. 

--Mike

Clare Richardson wrote:

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

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On Behalf Of Ethan Glasser-Camp
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Subject: Re: [pygame] Introduction + call to join project for creating
game frameworks

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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
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