Hyrule Astronomy Club - Kids coding class - base library for a game development
This library is used as a base to teach coding to kids from 6 to 12. It aims at giving an environment to kids that let them focus on the algorithm instead of the lousy display or precise management.
This is obviously extremely simple and does not aim at being anythting serious for game developpers.
If this library is useful for other teachers, I'll make tutorials.
Here is a quick view of what can currently be achieved with that library:
The base game makes use of:
- The main "game engine" (gamelib.Game.Game)
- Many different types of structures (from gamelib.Structures): Wall (well the walls...), Treasure (gems and money bag), GenericStructure (trees) and GenericActionnableStructure (hearts and portals)
- Game()'s menu capabilities.
- Player and NPC (from gamelib.Characters)
- Inventory (from gamelib.Inventory)
- Player and Inventory stats
- RandomActuator (NPCs in level 2) and PathActuator (NPCs in level 1) (from gamelib.Actuators.SimpleActuators)
The hac-game-lib only supports Python 3+. It will not run with Python 2.
Run PIP to install the requirements (only colorama):
pip3 install -r requirements.txtIt is not really a hard requirement but colored emojis are really bringing the games created to life.
We then recommend to have a color emojis font installed like Noto Color Emojis (on most Linux distributions you can install it from the package manager, search for "noto-color-emoji").
If your terminal application is not displaying color emojis, please have a look at this file and follow the instructions.
There is tons of limitations but for the most important ones:
- Only one player is supported.
- There is little protections against messing up with the internal. This is on purpose, I want the kids to learn to use the API not mess up with the internals of every single class.