Comic Maker

Comic Maker .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

• make red selectionborder bold
• show balloon tab only if balloon selected (.set_sensitive())
• repaint screen while editing text of balloon
• make rectangular "balloons"
• if resuming from journal when activity is running, activity is not loading correct document
• add new colorized characters
• selection lists with border on right side
• selection lists with captions... (does it really make sense? should be self explantory enough)
• help button above selection lists with popup window containing help text (help ok? window ok?)
• do proper layout of the interface
• add suport for selecting actors behind another actor
• rewrite balloon render code
• maybe toolbar for selection modes

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

screenshot

screenshot of interface

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