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===About You===

===About You===

* What is your name?

* '''What is your name?''' Andrej Trajchevski

Andrej Trajchevski

* What is your email address?

* '''Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?'''

 

 

 

 

 

* Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?

A good part of my open-source contributions can be found on my Github page: https://github.com/whoeverest

A good part of my open-source contributions can be found on my Github page: https://github.com/whoeverest

===About your project===

===About your project===

* What is the name of your project?

* '''What is the name of your project?'''

TurtleBot (codename, change it? maybe it's not about turtles)

 

* '''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''

I would like to create a game that's inspired by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbot LightBot], a really popular game that teaches you basic programming concepts. Basically, you're a robot (or a turtle) on a grid, and the objective is to "activate" a number of cells on the grid. You do that by dragging and dropping commands in slots: forward, turn left, jump etc. As the game progresses, writing linear procedures is no longer enough, so you're expected to extract common commands to a function or call a function recursively in order to create a loop.

I would like to create a game that's inspired by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbot LightBot], a really popular game that teaches you basic programming concepts. Basically, you're a robot (or a turtle) on a grid, and the objective is to "activate" a number of cells on the grid. You do that by dragging and dropping commands in slots: forward, turn left, jump etc. As the game progresses, writing linear procedures is no longer enough, so you're expected to extract common commands to a function or call a function recursively in order to create a loop.

It will be written in JavaScript and rendered using HTML canvas. I'll probably use some lightweight library for isometric drawing.

It will be written in JavaScript and rendered using HTML canvas. I'll probably use some lightweight library for isometric drawing.

* What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is from May 19 - August 22; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (27 June); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.

* '''What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is from May 19 - August 22; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (27 June); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.'''

First part: develop the game itself

First part: develop the game itself

* If there's enough time at the end, I'd like to create and host a promo single-page website that explains the game. Or maybe after GSOC.

* If there's enough time at the end, I'd like to create and host a promo single-page website that explains the game. Or maybe after GSOC.

* Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.

* '''Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.'''

 

For the past year I've been developing games for [https://www.gambit.com/ gambit.com] as a part of a small team. I worked on several major features, including writing Dominoes and Rock-Paper-Scissors from scratch (both backend and frontend) and writing a physics engine for billiards (based on computational pool papers, not live yet).

For the past year I've been developing games for [https://www.gambit.com/ gambit.com] as a part of a small team. I worked on several major features, including writing Dominoes and Rock-Paper-Scissors from scratch (both backend and frontend) and writing a physics engine for billiards (based on computational pool papers, not live yet).

===You and the community===

===You and the community===

* If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.

 

* What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?

* '''If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.'''

* How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?

* '''What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?'''

* '''How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?'''

===Miscellaneous===

===Miscellaneous===

* We want to make sure that you can set up a [http://developer.sugarlabs.org development environment] before the summer starts. Please do ''one'' of the following:

 

** Send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "logout".

* '''We want to make sure that you can set up a [http://developer.sugarlabs.org development environment] before the summer starts. Please do ''one'' of the following:

** Send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "logout".'''

:: It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.

[[File:Sugar-dev-proof-andrejt.png|center|Setting up dev. env]]

[[File:Sugar-dev-proof-andrejt.png|center|Setting up dev. env]]