Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Introduction

[Tim W. <tw...@iw...>]

Previously, William Kendrick chose to write:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:29:54AM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I just ran into tux4kids.org while following links from a Newsforge
> > story (SDL Game contest results announced).
>
> Cool! :)  (I'm Bill - 3rd place for Vectoroids. :)  I need a sash or a
> medal or something now ;) )
>

Congrats. Virtual medal is in the virtual mail ;)

> > It looks very interesting
> > and I'd like to get involved, if the project is still active.
>
> I honestly haven't been in the mood to work on TuxMath for some
> reason... of course, the whole Sept. 11th attack made us all question
> the premise of the game, but it seems most people feel we should
> keep it, if not tweak it only slightly.
>

Well, I can see your point. But kids are resilient, if anything. As the game 
places them in the position of protector, it can be perceived as a good 
thing. Kids and violent images are a touchy subject, but protecting animated 
cities from cartoonish comets, I think, is far enough away from "reality" to 
not be of major concern.

That being said, something more innoucuous (sp) would certainly be OK, too.

> > I'm not much of a developer, but there's gotta be something I can do to
> > help.
> > I've been a linux user for a couple years now and my family is nearly
> > 100% Windows-free (I've got Windows 98 SE installed on one partition,
> > but it's rarely used).
>
> Congrats! :)  (This past holiday season, I'd tell people that my
> house had "Not one Microsoft product... not even a mouse"  ;) )
>
>
> <snip>
>
> > So, that being said, how can I help?
>
> Well, testing and suggestions are always useful! ;) ;)
> (I especially want them for TuxMath, so I can finish the options screen)
>

I'll download it this weekend and play with it a little. Might even have the 
9-year old test drive it.

> I'm also interested in working on some other, more suite-like games...
> every time I see little electronic education kids' toys at stores,
> I want to make stuff like it for PCs. :)
>

Puzzle games are good. Get the kids analyzing and thinking. 
But we (the linux community) gotta do something about the dirth of linux 
games for kids. They're giving away friggin' CD's with Windows games on them 
at Burger King now. Sheesh! I wanted to go back and ask them for the linux 
version...

> -bill!
> (and I don't even have any kids! (yet))
>

Tim

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