/flagsy

A board game to help kids to learn world countries' flags

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flagsy

A board game to help kids to learn world countries' flags.

How to play

Very simple: shuffle all cards, deal 4 to each participant, "big flag picture" up. In turn, each participant proposes one of own card and tries to "guess" to which country it belongs.

If nailed it, the card is discarded, the participant has a card less, if zero he/she wins.

If wrong, the card is discarded, the partipant gets another one from the deck.

Variations can be made as the cards have other country info (e.g., to get rid of the card the participant must guess the country name and its capital).

Very nice project but I only want to play

Wonderful! Just download the fulldeck.tar.xz file, it has all the cards already produced. For each country you have the front and the back image.

For example for Argentina:

  • Front:

Front image for Argentina's card

  • Back:

Back image for Argentina's card

You just have to send them to print in the size that you want (each card PDF default size is 60mm x 90mm, very standard for these games).

Note that cards have a small code in one corner (2B for the examples above); that is not used in the game itself, it's just to validate that the back and the front of each printed card match ok.

What this project is about

Tools and whatever necessary to build PDFs/images/files to build the game.

Components/parts/information:

  • Raw information; for each country:

    • its name
    • its flag
    • other textual info (capital city, languages, continent, etc.)
    • an image representing the position of the country in the world map

  • Look and feel of each card

    • side A: a generic background (ToDo) with country's big flag
    • side B: same generic background, with all the rest of the info; need a design here (ToDo)

  • Tools/steps for putting everything together

Steps

  1. Go to raw subdir:

    1.1. Run get_countries_data.py, will leave a json with some data for all countries

    1.2. Run get_coi_data.py, will leave a json with some data for COI codes

    1.3. Run `fill_country_info.py', which will improve each item in the countries json data

    1.4. Run download_images.py, which will leave a images directory

  2. Move metadata and images from raw to art directory:

    mv raw/countries_data.json art/
mv raw/images/ art/

  3. Got art subdir:

    3.1. Run convert_images.py to get all images as PNGs

    3.2. Run generate_cards.py to generate all PDFs with the cards

    3.3. Smash all of them together for easier inspection:

    pdftk result/card-back*pdf cat output ../final-back.pdf
pdftk result/card-front*pdf cat output ../final-front.pdf

  4. Print them, and play