Comic Maker
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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