Point and Click King Arthur
This project will be a children's "point and click" adventure based on the King Arthur legend. The story follows King Arthur as he tries to collect all of his Knights of the Roundtable from their various quests and adventures. The player will play the role as King Arthur's royal investigator and will help the king along the way. The game will be heavy in graphics which will add to the atmosphere and story. The game's primary coding language will be Python, using the pygame library to aid in graphics management. The game's target audience and device is the OLPC and children.
Goal
Getting users to read/reading comprehension - Medieval history is taught largely during 4th grade - New York State cirriculum provides some detail on teaching medieval history
Story
Player is Arthur's Royal Detective, retrieve all the knights who are in the middle of their most famous quests for a banquet at Camelot - Fit the stories to be age appropriate
Tech
Look for existing point and click engines for pygame or other languages and adapt to our needs - This (pretty bad and unfinished) point-and-click game was written in pygame, and may be able to provide some guidance: http://www.pygame.org/project-library-2216-.html
Sound
Find public domain/free use sound effects (by week 6) - Free sounds available at http://www.freesound.org/, where oddshocks has an account
Art
Do art ourselves or find an artist to help (ASAP, need artist!) - Free clip art at http://openclipart.org/ might be able to help us out
Resources
Link to New York State Curriculum for English for grades K-12 http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/ela/elacore.pdf
Link to New York State Curriculum for Social Studies for grades K-8 http://schools.nycenet.edu/offices/teachlearn/ss/SocStudScopeSeq.pdf
See /docs for info on 4th grade ELA cirriculum.
To Do
- Find sound effects (must be public domain or free use!)
- Find an artist to help us or figure out a way to create art assets and animations
- Find a point and click engine for PyGame, or, a similar engine for another language that can be adapted to Python
This software is license under the Open Software License, see License.txt for more info.