new Game

[Marco Calignano]

On 08/22/2011 10:54 PM, Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Marco Calignano 
> <marco.calignano at web.de <mailto:marco.calignano at web.de>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 08/22/2011 03:15 PM, simion ploscariu wrote:
>
>         Hii,in my implementation i made the menu (that changed the
>         difficulty)
>         hidden and bring in front by a key combination(so kids can't
>         change
>         stuff or quit the application) but now i think that older kids can
>         navigate a picture based menu. For animations we have a lot in
>         Qt to
>         use(to make cards dissapear or some other effect when a bad
>         answer was
>         given), also sound feedback is good to have.
>         The code is easy to write, some nice themes would be nice, I
>         downloaded and used images ,and i tried to make some animal
>         themes.
>         I had also the idea to create a database with images and
>         sounds that
>         can be reused in all kids games and software,maybe when i will
>         have
>         more time I will manage this(i will ask my wife to make some
>         animal
>         themes) but for sounds no idea how to generate or record those(you
>         need some expensive equipment).
>         Marco maybe you are interested in creating a larger framework for
>         games for kids,have ideas .
>
>     The Framework are probably the stuff  I am better at. I am
>     colorblind so do not ask me about color :) . I have musical skills
>     so I could go into that with a bit of work, but my favorite is
>     programming Frame work.
>     I like to project them but here I need help from you. Untill now I
>     worked always at low lavel and since a couple of months I use QT
>     to develop games for my child. (I even bought a book for QT to
>     learn properly)
>
>     What Albert is saying answering Anne-Marie i find fascinating :
>
>         >  More generally (this question is more for other KDE people)
>         how do we
>         >  develop an "active" app and a normal one all in one?
>          Not trivial, you have to almost develop separate UIs (or at
>         least separate
>          paths in the same classes) so the recommendation is to keep a
>         clear separation
>          between the logic and the UI so you can "plug" a new UI on top.
>
>
>
>     Something like that is something that I am ready to do.
>     I am impressed that my email stirred up all these answer and these
>     Ideas.
>     I may repeat myself but I think i can work good for you with a bit
>     of direction from you.
>
>     To go back at the program I could see a video of Kmemory in an rss
>     feed from last year and it is exactly what I mean.
>     I still did manage to compile the code and have it running on my
>     machine but i will (still problems with cmake).
>     I have suggestion for improving the kmemory game but I think like
>     anne-marie saays we should decide how we should proceed.
>     I already feel that we could do something cool.
>
>     Thanks
>     Marco
>
>
>
>
>         On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf
>         <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr <mailto:annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr>>
>          wrote:
>
>             On Sun August 21 2011 23:23:53 Marco Calignano wrote:
>
>                 Hi everyone,
>                 I am Marco and I have an idea for a new game. A memory
>                 game.
>                 This would be a game for the preschool section.
>                 I know my sun likes this game a lot and with a touch
>                 screen would be great.
>
>                 There are couple of identical figures, let's  say 10
>                 different couples
>                 in total 20 cards.
>                 All the card are on the table covered in a grid 5x4.
>                 The Kid has to turn
>                 two of them and find the pairs.
>                 Of course if he wrong the card go back covered.
>                 He has to remember (that's way memory) where the card
>                 were and make new
>                 couple.
>
>                 I programmed already a little QT application to teach
>                 the connection
>                 between keyboard and computer also for my kid when he
>                 was younger.
>                 I would like to program or at least to help to program
>                 to the memory
>                 game if it will be developed.
>
>                 What are your opinions on that?
>
>                 Bye
>
>                 Marco
>
>             Hi,
>
>             Long ago when I was learning some programming I started
>             such a Memory game,
>             named Kard.
>             However the code is quite old and does not include all the
>             new Qt 4.7 goodies!
>
>             I think that at first we should work on the design to get
>             a UI fit for touch
>             devices.  Do you have any proposal for it (drawing maybe)?
>             Mainly how to
>             change level (increased level is more cards) and how to
>             change cards theme.
>             Also what is difficult is what happen when 2 cards are
>             discovered and do not
>             match: kids usually keep clicking/touching cards. It's now
>             easy to have
>             animations so the cards can be turned back but is there a
>             need to give some
>             feedback?
>             Also how to give feedback at the end of the game.
>
>             Coding the app itself will not be so hard as KMemory could
>             be the base or
>             Simon's Memory one, especially if we are several people
>             :-) But in my opinion
>             it will only succeed if the design is already roughly
>             sorted out.
>
>
>             More generally (this question is more for other KDE
>             people) how do we develop
>             an "active" app and a normal one all in one? was it
>             discussed in the Desktop
>             Summit? was anyone from KDE Edu at the Intel workshop? If
>             so is there someone
>             with a tablet who can test Simon's game and KMemory?
>
>             Such an app is needed and is great fun for kids as well
>             for aging people to
>             help them maintain or recover their memory.
>
>             Best regards,
>
>             Anne-Marie
>
>
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> If you're interested in KMemory, maybe we can meet some day in IRC and 
> discuss what can be done, I'm usually connected in #kde-edu, my 
> nickname is apol.
Sure no problem, but now I am also interested in what other is to do here

Cheers
Marco
>
> Cheers!
> Aleix
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