Broadway

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Broadway is a remake of the classic computer game "Hollywood" by Theatrix, and can be considered a spiritual successor to the Story Builder software. Users create a story by choosing a backdrop, creating actors, and then writing a script. Using animation and the native Text-to-Speech software, the story comes alive.

Usage

Broadway being used to edit a script

Development

Packages used:

  • Pygame
  • Spyral
  • PGU
  • Simplejson

Broadway was created using Pygame. Spyral is used to simplify the handling of Sprites in the Theater. A modified version of PGU is used to handle the user interface. Finally, Scripts are currently stored using JSON, requiring the Simplejson library.

Planned Features

  • More translations
  • Spellcheck
  • Grammarcheck
  • Export to Youtube
  • More of the existing content: actors, backdrops, twists, emotions, voices, etc.
  • Download content button (from central repository)
  • More example stories
  • Better text editing features (copy/paste, etc.)
  • Props that actors can interact with
  • Animations
  • Sound Effects and Musical Stings

Requested Features

  • ...?

Author

Austin Cory Bart, for his undergraduate thesis work at the University of Delaware with Dr. Lori Pollock.