Story Builder
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Description & Goals
Summary
Story Builder is a graphical story constructor tool. Drag & drop a variety of characters (stamps) into a background, and create an imaginative scene. Simple word-processing capability is included to encourage and facilitate free-form creative writing and the saving of original stories. When finalized, users will also be able to add their own images (created with Paint, Camera, etc.) and share their stories via the mesh.
This is a WorldWideWorkshop project - see the WorldWideWorkshop wiki page.
Beta 1.2 update
Story Builder v1.0b now runs in Sugar and also has sound, thanks to recent enhancements made to the olpcgames wrapper by Lincoln Quirk. However, the ability to type in your title and story is not working correctly under Sugar yet. While this bug is being addressed, you can test the writing and saving of text by running the application from the Developer's console on your XO. We recommend looking at it both ways.
To test the activity outside of Sugar:
- Alt+0 and select Terminal tab, then type the following:
- su
- mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
- cd /mnt
- cp StoryBuilder-8.xo.zip /home/olpc
- cd /home/olpc
- su olpc
- unzip StoryBuilder-8.xo.zip
- sugar-install-bundle StoryBuilder-8.xo
- cd Activities/StoryBuilder.activity/
- python ./StoryBuilder.py
- Alt 0 to see the activity
- Press Esc to quit Story Builder
Functionality:
- Written in Python and tailored to the OLPC Sugar environment
- Original activity logic and interface recreated
- Select a background / theme (from fixed set of provided themes and images)
- Place the animated characters freely on the background
- Select placed characters and move them around or remove them
- Selecting a character which overlaps with others brings it to the front
- Clear Picture
- Add the story title and text
- Save (Store the story in the Journal)
- Customized Lesson Plans included