We're so dedicated, we work on saturday nights!

Despite the copious amount of sex, drugs and rock & roll that define a Saturday night at RPI, I've come up with the a jpeg of our bird for the game, V320.




I myself am not convinced this is the best job we can do, so I'm asking for sugguestions/comments on his design.

-Ryan

Friday Post

So, we've been making adequate progress over the past two days, but the more we talk about the design of the project, and whether or not we're meeting the ultimate goal of creating an educational piece of software, we seem to create more questions of whether or not we are reaching that goal. A big challenge is making this application both educational and fun. I have a feeling that this is going to be a continuing issue through the duration of the progress.

Anyways, Ben and Amit, as far as I know, have been working with testing out certain parts of GTK, trying to make code to do certain tasks, their learning will definitely come in handy later on in the project. Ryan has been playing with gstreamer to play background. He has successfully designed code to loop a certain music file. Personally, I've been working on the general layout. I made a few small changes, but the biggest one is that I've created functionality to allow the user to pick a continent, and then a country within that continent. As always, the project is up on the google code site and available for a read-only checkout through svn.

I'll also post a picture of our idea board. Hopefully we can get a slightly higher quality photo.

Afternoon Summary

I am benCho. We have made progress on our endeavors. Josh has created an excellent draft of what our application's window will look like. It has been uploaded to the SVN Repository. Further tinkering has resulted in a more refined look as well as a colored world map.

Here is a rough outline of our plans:

Topic - Geography
Design - Travel to all parts of the world.
- Get gas/plane ticket to move from country to country by answering relevant questions
- Question types [identify picture, fill in the blanks, multiple choices]

Starting Point - Select starting point from a drop down list.

Our goal will be to search for XO's pet bird [V32O] who has flown away.

Midday Summary

This is Josh. The past few days have been primarily devoted to planning out our activity. What we think we will do is create an application geared towards teaching kids geography.

The premise behind the game is that the user will be OLPC's "mascot" XO. The goal will be to find his lost bird. So, what will happen is that the user must have XO travel across the world, stopping at different countries to pick up clues about where his pet bird has gone, while learning something about the country before being allowed to leave it, and travel to a new country.

Right now, today has been spent trying to figure out what we want our main window to look like, and then implementing that. This afternoon will most likely be spent doing the same.

This is Team Awesome

I am benCho. We are four talented individuals who will be working on developing educational OLPC software. We have successfully completed our mini-project; a simple program, written with Python 2.5, that takes a mathematical function and outputs a graph. Now we are moving on to our main project for the summer, which is still in the design phase. We'll keep you posted.