Game programming for kids: looking for open source 2D game developmentkit

[Max Kubierschky]

Hello,

I'm planning to give a game programming course for kids of mixed age.
For this, I am looking for an open source 2D game development kit.
I am also willing to participate in the development of the development kit.

Features I'd like to see
- Possibility to construct simple games via drag and drop without programming
- Integration into an IDE
- Based on Java or Python
Pluses:
- Good Tutorial
- German documentation

Any Ideas?

Max

 

[Laurent Pointal]

Max Kubierschky a écrit :

Hello,

I'm planning to give a game programming course for kids of mixed age.
For this, I am looking for an open source 2D game development kit.
I am also willing to participate in the development of the development kit.

Features I'd like to see
- Possibility to construct simple games via drag and drop without
programming
- Integration into an IDE
- Based on Java or Python
Pluses:
- Good Tutorial
- German documentation

With Python:
* pygame + build your drag'n drop features
* if you like 3D, vpython.


http://www.pygame.org/
http://www.vpython.org/

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hello,

I'm planning to give a game programming course for kids of mixed age.
For this, I am looking for an open source 2D game development kit.
I am also willing to participate in the development of the development kit.

Features I'd like to see
- Possibility to construct simple games via drag and drop without
programming
- Integration into an IDE
- Based on Java or Python
Pluses:
- Good Tutorial
- German documentation

Squeak. Smalltalk, but especially targeted at your requirements.

http://www.squeak.org/

Diez

 

[Max Kubierschky]

Squeak. Smalltalk, but especially targeted at your requirements.

http://www.squeak.org/

Diez

What part of Squeak is targeted at 2D game development?

 

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

What part of Squeak is targeted at 2D game development?

http://www.squeak.org/Features/FunandGames/

And also take a look at http://www.squeakland.org/ (Kids play → Etoys)
which is a framework for children, that let's you paint objects and attach
behaviour to them.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

 

[John Nagle]

The Blender GameKit will do all that.

You can do simple games without programming.
There's a graphical integrated environment.
Programs can be written in Python.
There's a published book ("Blender GameKit")
German documentation may be hard to come by, though.

John Nagle

 

[John Salerno]

With Python:
* pygame + build your drag'n drop features
* if you like 3D, vpython.


http://www.pygame.org/
http://www.vpython.org/

Wow, vpython looks pretty need. I'm messing around with it right now
and reading the docs. But I can't find something...do you know how to
clear the contents of the current scene? I checked the attributes of the
display, but there is nothing like "empty" that would do it.

 

[John Salerno]

Wow, vpython looks pretty need.

neat*

 

[Laurent Pointal]

Wow, vpython looks pretty need. I'm messing around with it right now
and reading the docs. But I can't find something...do you know how to
clear the contents of the current scene?

No, I know about vpython existence, I tried demos but haven't used it (no
need).

You may use the development lists for such questions.

http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=6013

A+

Laurent.

 

[Paul Rudin]

Wow, vpython looks pretty need. I'm messing around with it right now
and reading the docs. But I can't find something...do you know how to
clear the contents of the current scene? I checked the attributes of
the display, but there is nothing like "empty" that would do it.

for x in scene.objects:
x.visible = 0

?

 

[pabloreda]

I 'm doing the same

in forth...

www.reda4.org