XO ImageQuiz

XO ImageQuiz is an open-source game for kids aged 6-14 with a simple concept: one question, one image, one click; becoming one of the greatest learning experiences of the future :-)

• Learning Tool (Demo)
  • Kids can explore, create, share and translate questions
  • Mess around with the database: create, delete, download and share bundles
  • Play single-player games with flashcard-system or just a plain quick quiz-game
  • Multi-player games over the mesh - either vs or in coop mode
  • Extend the game by plugins they create (and share) or download via web / mesh / schoolserver
  • Get introductive reading and further links for each question

• Teaching Tool
  • Teachers can easily build individual question-packages accompanying their lessions (and share / download them)
  • Resarching a topic and creating questions for subtopics, as well as engaging in those of other groups, can be part of classes and homeworks

• Current status: In development (~ 30% done)
• Screenshots, Plugin How-To, Source

git clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/xo-quiz

Summary

• Usability: Easy to use tool for learning and teaching
• Interactivity: Messing around with all parts of the activity is encouraged and simplified
• Collaboration: Create, download and share questions, and have multi-player games
• Localization: Supporting all languages (unicode) and providing ways to translate questions (in-game & gettext)
• Extensiblity: Categories and their images can be shared over internet, schoolserver and mesh
• Balance: Easy, medium and hard questions, each for different ages
• Modular Layout: Written as a plugin framework; even the game-modes are plugins
• Constructive: Building up knowledge with fun and system
• XO Featured: Integrating the xo-cam, mesh and the users friends
• Categorized: like arts, astronomy, food, geography, health, technics, wildlife, ...

Development

Overview

The activity for the xo will be written in Python using:

• Pygame / the olpc pygames wrapper for display and xo interaction (cam, net, mesh)
• Pysqlite as data-storage system
• Unicode

Source

The current source-code is available via git from dev.laptop.org:

git clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/xo-quiz

Roadmap

* November 07: - Finishing the web-application
               - Start of Python Activity

* December 07: - Building basic high-quality database
               - Start of Single Player

* January 08:  - Single Player Mode

* February 08: - Tests and Multiplayer

* March 08:    - Final Design and Testing

* April 08:    - Release of version 1.0

Involved

• Chris Hager (Austria) (chris(at)linuxuser.at)
• Georg Witwer (Austria)
• OLPC Austria

Help

We are looking for people with:

• Python knowledge
• Design / Layout experience
• Time to create a few questions
• Ideas for the concept

If you have any of those, and are willing to contribute a few hours, please drop me a line: chris (at) linuxuser.at

Related Links

• General
  • Game_development
  • Game_development_HOWTO
  • Development_issues
  • Flashcard Learning System

• Python
  • Python Quick Reference
  • Unicode in Python

• Pygame
  • PyGame Reference
  • PythonGameProgramming (Excellent, quick diy-introduction on images, sound, display, event handling, ...)
  • PyGame Tutorials Overview

• PySqlite
  • Usage Guide
  • Unicode and PySqlite