Broadway

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

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.