Comments on: GSimon is coming!

By: brunobol

brunobol — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:09:33 +0000

@Carlos:

Hello, Carlão!
I’ll have more ideas for GNOME-Edu soon. Who knows we can have some projects for your students. I’ve created the wiki page http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEdu as a brainstorm to the future. Feel free to tell your students to fill the page with “edu-ideas”. I can support people who wants join GNOME-Edu.

Cheers!

By: CarlosPereira

CarlosPereira — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:52:45 +0000

Hello, Bruno!
I have found your blog today!
I like the ideia of “gnome-edu”. As being a teacher, I think that this is a great idea! Count on me to help and support.
This game is the toy “Genius”, made by Estrela (a brazillian toy factory) late 80s. I had one of these…
The name Genious start even with “G”… Although I dont know what happens with legal and trademark issues.
Best regards!
Carlão

By: brunobol

brunobol — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:45:48 +0000

@Murray:

Yes, Murray, but gcompris is not an oficial module of GNOME. Also, it uses the deprecated GnomeCanvas widget. We want to write some education software to be part of GNOME in future releases.

By: Murray Cumming

Murray Cumming — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:28:52 +0000

gcompris is a collection of educational games for kids.

By: SW

SW — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:57:44 +0000

If nothing else, I’m pretty sure MB (or whoever) will still own the legal rights to Simon, and “GSimon” probably infringes those.

As others have said: looks cool, but pretty unplayable unless you can use the keyboard.

By: michael

michael — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:08:22 +0000

nicely done and something I’m definetly going to try.
maybe you can write a gtk-engine. that’s the way I got into cairo

By: brunobol

brunobol — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:44:55 +0000

@ Vincent:
Yes, Vincent. We need a new creative name. Any idea?

@Anonymous@lolmoth:
The intent is to have options to customize everything. Colors, sounds, keyboard and mouse. Maybe not in the initial releases, but it will.

@ALL:
GSimon (name can be changed) uses vectorial graphics (cairo) and can be played in any window size.

Thanks for comments!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:17:18 +0000

Great project, Bruno! I’m in the process of rolling a custom distro (thinking of going with Gnome environment) for kids that would be filled with fun edutainment.

A few questions:
* Will there be sound?
* Are you designing the interface to include keyboard and mouse options? I ask this because a lot of the appeal of the old Simon Says game seemed to be in the mechanical memory of hitting the buttons (keyboard needed).

By: K. Ralho

K. Ralho — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:31:33 +0000

I would rather use GSimon instead of Blinken.
‘Simon’ must be round. Not only because of usability, but because… it’s ROUND.
All the bells and whistles that Blinken offers could be costumized in GSimon if the user wants it.

By: menko

menko — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:00:34 +0000

Yes, Edu-Stuff would be really great

Especially some with nice graphics. GNOME really lacks something here.