pyCave Explorer

A cave-delving puzzle game for the OLPC

Liscensing

Academic Free Liscence (AFL) v3.0

Authors

• Jennifer Dziuba
• TJ Miller
• Ralph Bean (threebean)
• David Gay (oddshocks)

Development instructions for Linux

threebean found that on Fedora 17, he had to do the following stuff to get pygame to stand up correctly in a virtualenv:

$ sudo yum -y install pygame pygame-devel
$ mkvirtualenv --system-site-packages pyCaveExplorer
(pyCaveExplorer) $ python setup.py develop

Then I could run the game by typing:

(pyCaveExplorer) $ explore-the-cave

TO DO :

• learn pygame

• make grid

  • decide resolution
  • tag for current square
  • tag for goal square
  • tags for lit squares
  • tags for unlit squares
  • tags for blocked squares
  • lightbulb object
  • battery object
  • treasure object
  • way to track which squares are electrically connected
  • mirrors ?

• grid generator

  • create genrator that randomly populates grid

  • create solver to check if grid is valid

    • re-create grid if invalid

• create stat tracking interface

  • incorporate with Journal

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Teach fourth grade electricity and magnetism http://schools.nyc.gov/Documents/STEM/Science/K8ScienceSS.pdf

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Some concepts:

• battery is placeable, but then anchored in place
• player gets certain number of lights per level
• infinite lengths of wire
• lights are placeable, but then anchored in place
• there are mirrors in the grid that will direct light in certain directions

Lighting Strategies:

• the player can quickly light an area in series, using one wire.

  • provides average lighting
  • requires less "commands"
  • can short out the battery

• the player can take more time to light the area in parallel.

  • provides better lighting
  • requires more "commands"
  • will not short out the battery