[gcompris-devel] Searching for educational games and web-games

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le mer 18/12/2002 à 17:31, Stephen Liu a écrit :
> Hi all folks,
> 
> I just join this list.  I am searching for educational games/web games, 
> preferable from OpenSource, for Kindergarten kids.  My search can be 
> briefly focused as follows:
> 
> 1) Simple mathematics
> 2) Simple colour filling
> 3) Simple spelling
> 4) Simple games, etc.
> 5) 2D can be OK but 3D is more attractive
> 6) The instruction has to be simple easily understood by teachers of non
> technical mind
> 7) Music is not important
> etc.
> 
Great, that's all gcompris is about ;)

As for the 3D, I prefer not to use it because it requires special
kwnoledge to develop and higher level of hardware that most school
dont't have.

> Actually I can find many of them with google search.  But the real 
> difficulty is I must have them downloaded, installed and playing them 
> before I know what kind of games they are.  No demo on their websites 
> except screen shots.  Teachers are reluctant to accept them.  Unlike those 
> games available on markets they have demo showing how to play and their 
> content as well.

You won't find such demo in the open source area. We don't need to demo
a product because you can get the full package free as well.
Then there is a technology step because I assume most of your target is
Windows based, many open source software do require Linux.

As for gcompris, the best way to demo it is to use the freeduc cd.
http://www.ofset.org/projects/edusoft/edusoft.html

This will let your teacher run gcompris and many other free education
oriented application directly from a CDROM without installing anything.

Bruno.