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pySioGame - Educational Activity Pack for Kids

Please note - this game is playable but still unfinished - or rather is being continuously improved (not so much recently - not enough hours in a day).

Please let me know if you find any errors or bugs in the game or in translations, formulas or other game content.

pySioGame is built with Linux users in mind - written in python and tested on Ubuntu, however it does work on Windows just not tested as thoroughly as on Linux.

The game is intended to be compatible with python 2.7.3+ including python 3.x.

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Linux installation:

In order to run this game you need the python-pygame package installed.
To check if you have it run the following lines in terminal (Ctrl+Atl+T):
$ python
>>> import pygame
>>> exit()
If you have no errors importing it you are set, else you need to install it, in Debian based distros run: 
$ sudo apt-get install python-pygame

And if you want to enable the voice in game you also need eSpeak which - if you are using Linux, is most likely already installed, if you are using any other OS - well no luck - I'm afraid it won't work - but can't test it really.

In some cases you may also need to install fonts-freefont-ttf (Debian) or ttf-freefont (Ubuntu) or gnu-free-sans-fonts (Fedora) or equivalent in your distro - maintainers please add it to dependencies.

To start the game from terminal:
python /home/user/path/to/the/game/pysiogame.py

#or using python3:
python3 /home/user/path/to/the/game/pysiogame.py

Should start with double click if marked as executable (Right-click -> Properties -> Permissions -> Allow executing file as program) or if you like you can create a custom launcher using one of the above lines for the command line field (obviously after changing the path to the program first). The pysiogame_icon_48.png file from res/pysiogame_icon folder can be used as the icon for the launcher.

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Windows installation (instructions by Ori Hoch):

Download and install python 2.7 32bit - http://www.python.org/getit/
Download and install pygame for python 2.7 + 32bit  - http://www.pygame.org/install.html
Download and install espeak 32bit - http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html

Add espeak to your path (sorry, but this requires some technical windows knowledge)
you should have something like this in your PATH variable:
C:\Program Files (x86)\eSpeak\command_line;(... other paths ...)

Download pysiogame and extract it somewhere, for example c:\pysiogame

To run pysiogame you can add a shortcut on the desktop to:
c:\python27\python.exe c:\pysiogame\pysiogame.py