FindTheCountry

Deprecated, kinda. Replaced by Geoquiz.

Heh, and I was just about to begin implementing this, too. :(

Stuart Morrow 01:37, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

The excellent 'World Countries' game made by 'orinoco' is implemented in SVG and javascript in a single file:

 http://files.myopera.com/orinoco/svg/WorldCountries.svg

It is a lovely game, it is under the GDL and already works on the OLPC. It would make an absolutely great activity for the OLPC and only needs a little bit of tuning to make it work perfectly on the platform.

ToDos:

• (EASY) perhaps change the color scheme to increase the contrast
• (MEDIUM) increase the spacing between countries to improve visibility on the OLPC's high-res screen
• (MEDIUM) make it all fit without scrolling left and right
• (EASY) adjust the size and placement of the text to improve rendering and avoid clipping
• (???) package as an OLPC Activity

New Features:

• choose a continent to practice on
• click on the country name to go to a wikipedia search
• internationalize the text
• package the wikipedia country pages as part of the activity