[kde-edu]: Educational games for kids

[simion ploscariu]

To clarify something about the work i am dong vs GCompris. I have a 4
and a half years old son. We use gcompris but just a few of the games
there he can play.
As an example the mazes game it is keyboard controled it is not a
mouse  version. The problem with the keyboard is that he can control
the penguin on the maze, the problem appears when he has to move  a
number of steps but must stop before reaching a wall. He can't do
it,he always stops at the wall. He can press the button to do say just
one step. I designed an algorithm where all the corners are in fron of
a wall bt the game sis not over.
Tuxpaint is great he loves it and he explores it,it is fun for him.
The color games he can play onlyu the one were the colors are spoken
because he can't read(now he knows the clors in english)
He can play also a few other games.
II will not create the games in gcompris, only new ones or improve the
ones in gcompris to be used by smaller kids I think i explained this
in an old email to the mailing list and i write something on the wiki
but i can't find the page now it was named Kids play (i think)

Now i want to implement a game to help my son learn english but i will
make it more general to be used in more ways. It will have a screen
with a grid of images and the kid will have to click the corect image.
The corect image will be pointed by one of the methods:
-speacjing the name of the object in the image (ex cat)
-playng the sound of the object in the image(a cat noise "miau")
-displayng the first leter of the object (letter C for cat
-speacking(showing) the color and he must select the correct object

I am thinking to use a database(maybe sqlite) to store a colection of
objects.Something  like path to image, path to noise then for each
language :the name of the object, the color of the object and some
other caracteristics like color, location ,use ...we'll se what can we
use it for and what we need to add. I will create a small database and
a demo and get more feedback. I am thinking on using QML( i will take
a look at plasma if it can be used)
Other idea would be to make the game structure so simple so we(or I)
could write a online version, I want to make the games accessible for
all kids on any platform,Os.
This are my ideas and i will execute them soon,any feedback is welcom
P.S. I respect GCompris project I use it for my son i want to make new
games and Qt is my preference(over gtk)  I made some c++ games and
applications using Qt but i am not a c++ master(so my code could be
bugy with memory leaks and strange stuff but i am still learning) I am
more experienced in managed languages.
For the other games i made i am still thinking at a framework to
integrate them,something like gcompris has
Feedback is welcomed