Py Cave Explorer Game

I started to work on a new game for the OLPCs called Py Cave Explorer. My team mate, Jen Dzuiba, and I are quickly working out the game play of this new game. Our goal is to teach younger, third world country kids the fundamentals of circuits, batteries and electricity.

The basic idea of the game is that there is an explorer in a dark cave that is divided into grid spaces. The explorer has to use different powered batteries and different lengths of cable to navigate from the entrance to the exit space on the grid. We haven't quite figured out how we want to incorporate this into the game play, but we are hashing that out.

Next week, we will start on stubbing out code and setting up class definitions.

Playing With An OLPC

I was playing around with an OLPC laptop today and I find it quite interesting so far. It's cool to see how the activities on the Sugar OS are integrated into the whole system. I'm starting to delve into the code a bit as well. I will post another blog once I've looked at it more closely.