[Kde-games-devel] Educational Game Application Idea for learning new languages.

[Jakob Gruber]

Hi Avinash,

sorry to rain on your parade, but to me this project sounds fairly
unrealistic.

Implementing a kart racer is probably a much more ambitious task than you'd
think at first,
especially with only little OpenGL/3D graphics experience. Also consider
that a large part of
the time spent on such projects (at least in my experience) is required for
tweaking seemingly
minor details such as the user interface. Technical challenges aside,
simply getting enough content
might also be an issue: models, textures, sprites, icons, and levels don't
create themselves.

Have you thought about customizing SuperTuxKart instead? Experimenting with
their codebase
could also help narrow down the scope and complexity of your idea.

Jakob


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Avinash Zebisky <avinashzebisky at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am interested in making a educational game application similar to
> superTuxKart. This game will help anyone who want to learn a new language.
> I would be participating in KDE gsoc and I would like this game as my
> project.
>
> So a brief explanation about the game :-
>
> - Player is competing against few opponents in a race.
>
> - Race is about completing one's word and reaching the finish line first.
>
> - Initially, all the player are given a word of same length.
>
> - Every player has to complete his/her words by picking up the alphabets
> popping in the race track.
>
> - Multiple alphabets will pop-up on track and player has to pick the
> correct one.
>
> - If the player doesn't fails to pick the correct alphabet he'll receive
> multiple chances( maybe 6) to pick it up again, or else the race is aborted.
>
> - If the player picks up the correct the his bar length will increase and
> he'll get closer to completion.
>
> - Similar to alphabets pop-ups there are these power pop-ups too, which
> will help the player to increase his speed, launch a missile etc.
>
> - The player who reaches the finishing line with the completed word wins.
>
> *This might be good for kids learning English but how will it help to
> learn other languages?*
>
> Suppose you have to learn Thai language, in the game initially you will be
> shown something for example, an apple and then you have to complete the
> word apple in thai language i.e. By picking up thai alphabets.
>
> *Sounds good, but don't you think the mature ones will find the tedious to
> learn the language by racing through words?*
>
> This was pointed out by Inge Wallin, and yeah it completely correct. For
> this part we can add a quick learn language dialog, in which a thai
> alphabet will be shown and you the type their correct english spelling, or
> vice versa. The faster you type the better you get.
>
> *Won't this be a too much for a GSOC project, i.e. Building a
> LearnLanguageTuxKart?*
>
> Coding a SuperTuxKart in summer, might be. But the implementation of this
> educational app is quite subjective. If 3D would be difficult we can to a
> 2D. If there are many features then we can reduce a few or vice versa.
>
> Some background,
>
> I have good experience in c++ 'cause of my competitive programming
> background. I have some experience in QT and very little in OpenGL. I have
> solved 3 bugs in KDE, mostly junior jobs though.
>
> I am very excited to work on this project and yes, I want to join KDE for
> a long term :).
>
> Kindly, review this idea and let me know if I need to make some changes to
> make it compatible with GSOC timeline.
>
> Cheers :)
>
> _______________________________________________
> kde-games-devel mailing list
> kde-games-devel at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-games-devel
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-games-devel/attachments/20140304/5a3b625b/attachment.html>