Comic Maker

Comicmaker .xo Bundle – Comic Maker.xo Avallain, Teshkeel

see also Cartoon Builder

The Comic Maker activity is being developed by Avallain Basic Skills, with input from publisher Teshkeel.

summary

with comic maker you can build comic strips. stages can be created with a background. on the stages characters and speech balloons can be aranged.

there exists a javascript version which is not yet properly implemented as an activity. a python/pygame version is in development

pygame version

the pygame version is unfinished but you can already experiment with the most features.

todo

• optimize memory usage
• do proper layout of the interface

future improvements

• flip actors
• performance improvements
• add support for rotated view
• full screen view
• in balloon text editing
• font color/size support for balloons
• svg actors

features

• add/ reorder/ delete stages
• set background of stage fields
• add/ order/ scale/ delete actors
• add/ edit/ order/ delete balloons
• journal support
• change size and angle of balloon arrows

javascript version

You can see the source here and run it on your XO.

• Status: needs to be bundled more cleanly as an activity; currently a content bundle running in Javascript.
• Source: zip and xol

  Preview: comicmaker online