Squeak, Education and RPG (Role Playing Game)

José L. Redrejo Rodríguez jredrejo at edu.juntaextremadura.net
Wed Dec 15 13:19:44 UTC 2004


El mar, 14-12-2004 a las 21:49 +0100, Samir Saidani
<saidani at info.unicaen.fr> escribió:

It would be really great if we could work together. Jeffrey T. Read, who
was the origin of the thread has also asked me for more information.  I
can open a swiki in 5 minutes if you want and we can continue writing
there our projects, our ideas, and see if we can join efforts.  If you
can read spanish I can send you, or upload to the swiki, the description
of the project I sent to my educational authorities for their approval.

About your question, I hadn't found any tool similar to this made in
smalltalk. So I had got some ideas from other sources, like
http://www.dollysoft.com/ and I had the purpose to do all the work
beginning from scratch.

The project can be more or less complicated depending on how many things
the animated characters can do. I prepared a raw presentation to show
the possibilities of a simple project generated with this tool. The
project can be watch using a browser with squeakland plugin installed at
http://repository.small-land.org/ProjectDetails/Summer%27s%20night%
20dream
So, initially I am not very ambitious because I have seen it could be a
never-ending project if there is only one person programming code , but
if more people join to the idea, maybe we could improve it a lot.

Regards
 
> Hi,
> 
> Very interesting project Jos, we thought about a similar idea in the
> educative squeak workgroup in France, and are interested to
> participate in this project. In fact, the project we have is to design
> an educative framework to build a role playing game in Squeak. More
> precisely, there would be several levels in this framework, and the
> first one meets the idea of a "story teller" : using a bookmorph,
> EToys and character-specific widget. A second level would use
> MorphingWrappers to interact easily with the scene, like taking or
> dropping objects. A third level would propose a classes framework
> giving an easy way for youngs to build an entire RPG, by including
> music, sounds, images and online playing (between several Squeak
> images). This is a rather ambitious project, but we have successfully
> tested this kind of projets in classrooms (in Squeak - 18-19 years
> old) and holiday camps (QBasic and LOGO - 9-10 years old). So maybe
> could we join our forces to build such a framework ? And we are
> looking for some codes to start this framework, I took a look on Sims
> from Brian Rice and CastleMicroSloth from Adam Shackleford (in VW),
> does somebody know others RPG in smalltalk ?
> 
> Regards,
> Samir
> 
> >Jos "L. Redrejo" Rodrguez <jredrejo at edu.juntaextremadura.net>
> 
> > Maybe we could work together. I have begun a project in Spain, with
> > three teachers else, trying to make a "story teller" inside of Squeak.
> > The target is foreign language teaching. The idea is based on how much
> > teenagers like to tell story and use their imagination. Working together
> > with some english teacher we thought of making a tool with these parts:
> > - First part: The teacher choose a famous english tale or book (in our
> > case, english is the foreign language) . For example, Robinson Crusoe,
> > and extract some gramatical structures and vocabulary. He shows the
> > vocabulary to the children using intelligence bits , and give the
> > structures to the students.  
> > - Second part: the students make an animated tale with those structures
> > and vocabulary, but telling the story in their own way.    
> >
> > My idea is: prepare a "special" squeak image with the intelligence bits
> > tool, a character generator and an "easy to use" story generator
> > (similar to http://www.dollysoft.com/, but only using an etoy interface,
> > not writing the script).   This last part is obviously very similar to
> > the one you want to do. But I have imposed myself one limitation:
> > generated stories must be a squeak project totally squeakland
> > compatible. So, I want to prepare those "agents" and an etoys interface
> > to use them, but, once the project is ended, it will be published in our
> > swiki server and should be able to run into a web browser with the
> > squeakland plugin.  
> > The project has to be ended before November 2005. I have got some
> > economical funds from the educational authorities, and that is my
> > deadline to give our work.  I would like to know your opinion about the
> > idea, and if you think we could collaborate some way. This explanation
> > has been quite rude, the whole project is detailed in 4 o 5 pages. If
> > you want more details, please ask me.
> > Regards.
> >
> 
> 

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