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This page displays the pertinent information regarding the development of Blocku.

==Members==
If you would like to help out with the development of Blocku then contact any of the active members. We would be happy with any help you can give.

===Active===

:'''Members listed here are actively working on the project.'''

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<div style="border-bottom: 1px solid black">[[User:mdemayo| Mark DeMayo]] (3rd Year @ RIT)</div>
email: [mailto:mdemayo24@gmail.com mdemayo24@gmail.com ]

Contribution: ''Designer, Artist''

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<div style="border-bottom: 1px solid black">[[User:Iogburu| Ihudiya Ogburu]] (5th Year @ RIT)</div>
email: [mailto:ifogburu@gmail.com ifogburu@gmail.com ]

Contribution: ''Designer, Artist''

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<div style="border-bottom: 1px solid black">[[User:coolestdude1| Ariel Zamparini]] (3rd Year @ RIT)</div>
email: [mailto:arielzamparini@gmail.com arielzamparini@gmail.com]

Contribution: ''Programmer''

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<div style="border-bottom: 1px solid black">[[User:Fran Rogers| Fran Rogers]] (4th Year @ RIT)</div>
email: [mailto:fran@dumetella.net fran@dumetella.net]

Contribution: ''Programmer''

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==Development Meetings==

4pm-6pm Wednesday January 20, 2010

4pm Thursday January 28, 2010 (IRC)

4pm-6pm Thursday February 18, 2010

2pm-4pm Wednesday February 24, 2010

5pm-6pm Thursday February 25, 2010

==Updates==
01.14.2010 Updated the Wiki Page with New Links

01.16.2010 Updated the Wiki Page with new suggestions

01.21.2010 Updated the Wiki Page with new description, milestones, and logo

01.27.2010 Added in Fran, Added in summaries for student/teachers

02.02.2010 Developed Teacher Lesson Plan

02.09.2010 Reformatted Wiki

02.07.2010 Created the screenshot of the start menu and three game screens

02.07.2010 Added the screenshots to the wiki

02.09.2010 Added the Lesson Plan to the wiki

02.09.2010 Added the active members and their contacts to wiki

02.09.2010 Reformatted and Enhanced the Wiki

02.24.2010 Fixed Size on Bugs Box, Added in more bugs encountered

02.24.2010 Added in future work for possible co-ops for blocku at RIT

02.25.2010 Added an image of the tutorial screen.

==Milestones==
*<s>Decide which program to use as a foundation. (Tetravex, Super Cube, Jigsaw-Puzzle)</s>

*<s>Display a graphical interface.</s>

*<s>Make squares movable.</s>

*<s>Display squares with numbers.</s>

*<s>Make squares able to be rotated.</s>

*<s>Display game grid.</s>

*Blocks can snap to grid.

*Complete Software Requirements Specifications

*Complete Lesson Plan, and Instructional Documentation

==Future Work==
*Allow teachers to input any constraint not just Math ones.

*Change custom game screen to allow users to input matching pairs.

*Change custom game screen to allow users to input constraint.

*The ability to save games.

*The ability to load games.

*A leaderboard.

*Achievements/Trophies

*Save pair lists and constraints for future use.

==Bugs/Fixes==

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!width="20%"|Bugs
!width="40%"|Problem
!width="40%"|Fix
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|Rotation
|Blocks Warp when Rotating getting bigger the more you do it
|The Fix we derived for this will be that the blocks do not physically rotate only then numbers get passed around
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|Rotation Variables
|Rotation variable are using place holds should be more dynamic
|Concatenated the string didn't work but casting it to str worked
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|Sprite Lag
|Seems like there is redundant code in the works causing lag in the movement
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|Screen Size
|Screen is at the moment not dynamic should be changed to be full screen and dynamic for no problems in the future
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|Sprite Size
|They are too tiny at the moment make bigger ...
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|Grid
|needs to be dynamic and not a png image
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|Individual Rotation
|Only One Block can rotate make it so that any block can, maybe visual cue like a rotate symbol on a block
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==Public Git Repository==
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/blocku

==Public IRC Channel==

=====<u>Server</u>=====
irc.freenode.net

=====<u>Channel</u>=====
<nowiki>#blocku</nowiki>

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File:TutorialScreen.png

2010-02-25T22:51:12Z

Mdemayo: uploaded a new version of "File:TutorialScreen.png"

File:TutorialScreen.png

2010-02-25T22:50:01Z

Mdemayo: uploaded a new version of "File:TutorialScreen.png"

Activities/Blocku/Tutorials

2010-02-25T22:46:05Z

Mdemayo:

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Here are some tutorials to help you learn how to play.

[[Image:tutorialScreen.png|600px]].

==How To Play==

[[Image:tutorial1.gif]]

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Activities/Blocku/Sketches/Screenshots

2010-02-25T22:44:24Z

Mdemayo:

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This page has screenshots and and mock ups of how the different menus and game screens will look for the final release.

=<b>Screenshots</b>=

==Start Screen==
[[Image:startScreen.png|600px]].

==Menus==
===Main===
[[Image:mainMenu.png|600px]].

===Custom Game===
[[Image:customGameScreen.png|600px]].

===Quick Play===
[[Image:quickPlayScreen.png|600px]].

===Tutorials===
[[Image:tutorialScreen.png|600px]].

==Play Screens==

[[Image:PlayScreen1.png|500px]]. [[Image:PlayScreen2.png|500px]]. [[Image:PlayScreen3.png|500px]].

=<b>Original Sketches</b>=

==Play Screens==

[[Image:example3.jpg]]. [[Image:example1.jpg]]. [[Image:example2.jpg]].

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File:TutorialScreen.png

2010-02-25T22:43:41Z

Mdemayo:

Activities/Blocku/Suggestions/Comments

2010-02-24T20:55:05Z

Mdemayo:

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This page has comments and suggestions that we have received from the community. Thank you to all those that gave us feedback, it really helped.

[[Image:commentBox.png|550px]]

=Comments=

=Game Suggestions=

===Benjamin M. Schwartz (via email)===

I think it's great. Three points:
1) Users probably don't want to play many games of the same operation
(e.g. x+y=10), and the teacher probably doesn't want to create a new game
for every operation. You should allow users to select a range of
operations (e.g. numbers up to 12, + - and *) and have the game select a
random operation from the set for each game.
2) There are some interesting possibilities for using network collab
between users and teachers, but work on that last. To start, users should
just punch in the operation (or range of operations) when the activity
launches. Teachers can just tell the students what settings to use, and
then look at the screens to verify.
3) The visual structure of the game seems almost identical to Gnome's
Tetravex. In the spirit of Open Source, you should consider reusing the
Tetravex gameboard display code.
--Ben

===Wade Brainerd (via email)===

Looks great Mark! Feel free to get in touch with me if you need any
help with implementation.
I agree with Greg that this would be a good target for PyGame.
Regarding the game design, you should consider adding some sense of
progress, or else players will get tired quickly. Some ideas:
- Start with two cards, gradually ramp up to 9.
- There needs to be a good "snapping" mechanism when dropping, so
users don't get frustrated by trying to line the cards up.
- Adding the ability to rotate the cards in 90 degree increments would
add to the challenge.
- Your notion of customization seems limited to replacing the square
with a graphic, which might obscure the number. Is this really a good
way to customize it?
- I agree with Ben that when you start the game you should first
select which types of puzzles (* + - / etc) you want, how many
squares, whether rotation is allowed. No need for the teacher to be
involved.
- Why limit it to numbers? E.g. how about comparisons like "X is
heaver than Y" and on the sides of the cards are things like
"elephant", "bacteria", etc. Or "X is newer than Y", etc. This is
where customization would be cool. Let the teacher define a
relationship, and input a series of terms, and define which pairs meet
that relationship. This would be called a "set", and could be
exported to the Journal.
Good luck with your project!

===David Farning (via email)===

Very clever. I just cut made a cut out of the game out of paper. My
1st grade niece played with it for over half an hour. It will be a
hit on her XO.
david

===Greg DeKoenigsberg (via email)===

Mark, this looks like a brilliant little activity. Simple, fun gameplay, extensible. Really great.
Some thoughts:
1. I'd love to see this as primarily a PyGame activity, with just enough "Sugar" to run it on Sugar
easily, but also easily available as a Windows or Mac activity. If done well, this is precisely
the sort of activity that could cross over. (Which is, in fact, how I'd like to see most Sugar
games built.)
2. Always think a little bit (but not too much) about assessment. The student knows they're
getting better because they are "leveling up". The teacher knows the kid is getting better
because... how? Game data is pushed up to a server... somehow? Dunno if anyone is paying
attention to this question, but it would be great if there were a simple way to allow
teachers to
aggregate "high score" data, which really doubles as assessment data in cases like this.
A great start. I look forward to seeing what it becomes.
--g

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File:CommentBox.png

2010-02-24T20:53:46Z

Mdemayo:

File:Teach.jpg

2010-02-24T20:32:37Z

Mdemayo:

Activities/Blocku/Teacher

2010-02-24T20:31:25Z

Mdemayo:

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This page displays how the teacher can interact with Blocku and what features are available to the teacher.

[[Image:teacher.JPG|550px]]

=Description=
The teacher here would set all of these preferences and then share the activity, then they can look at statistics based on the class. The main basis here would be time but also an error rate should be tracked along with this data.

==Available Features==
*Can set difficulty
*Can set grid size
*Can set the set of numbers
*Can set the operators used
*Can use classroom mode

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2010-02-24T20:29:15Z

Mdemayo:

Activities/Blocku/Student

2010-02-24T20:29:05Z

Mdemayo:

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This page displays how the student can interact with Blocku and what features are available to the student.

[[Image:student.jpg|550px]]

=Description=
The student will be able to choose from past made puzzles as practice or from pre-existing puzzles for fun as a way to play Blocku. When the teacher is in control they will be able to join the class with the task at hand.

==Available Features==
*Can choose to use pre-made puzzles
*Can choose difficulty
*Can choose grid size
*Can choose the set of numbers
*Can choose operators used
*Is given the answer then the puzzle
*Can use classroom mode

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2010-02-18T23:44:23Z

2010-02-18T23:32:01Z

Mdemayo:

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Here are some tutorials to help you learn how to play.

[[Image:tutorial1.gif]]

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Activities/Blocku/Tutorials

2010-02-18T23:30:32Z

Mdemayo:

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Here are some tutorials to help you learn how to play.

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