Project Team Proposal

So It is time for us to group up for our first real open source project, or at least first for some of us. I'm pairing up with danShumway, though we hope to have a few people join us. Regardless, here is our proposal:

Project 1 Proposal

Team Members:

danShumway (Daniel Shumway)

Pharas (Brian Escriche)

Project Choice:

We have decided that we are going to try and make our own game, Python Math: Adder's Garden Adventure.

Description:

Python Math is going to be a small puzzle game for the XO designed to teach early math concepts like addition, subtraction, and order of operations. Players will be trying to get the length of Adder to a certain value to clear each stage which is accomplished by traversing through addition and subtraction gates to hit the right number.

Roles:

At current with the team we have -

danShumway - Documentation, Core Engine work

Pharas - Design, Engine Work

Source Repository:

We are hosting our repository on Github at this address

Upstream Mentors:

As neither myself nor Danny are the most proficient python hackers, we will be asking for help from deCause and Mansam.

Communication:

We hope to keep the majority of our communication going through both email and in person meetings that we should be holding fairly regularly in addition to whatever time is spent in class working together.

Easy Parts:

We are hoping that the engine itself will be fairly easy to create as the idea behind the game is tile based.

Foreseeable challenges:

Due to the main design goals for the project, we are looking to have people create their own puzzles for contribution. Danny also feels that keeping everything reasonably well documented will be a little challenging, but I don't really see it. Time will tell.

Overcoming obstacles:

Hopefully we can reach out to people in the foss-box to help with puzzles and ideas for us to work with. Otherwise, I feel like we have a nice project which should opefully be easy to keep within scope.