A turn-based English flashcard review game.
Up to 6 players.
Don't forget to install dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt and to start up your virtual environment.
Tested on python 3.9 and macOS (Big Sur).
Here is a YouTube video demo. There is no audio in this video, but the actual game has music and sound effects.
- Create and run virtual environment:
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate- Run
./startGame - Run tests with
./test
- Decide the order of the teams and let them choose their players.
- Run the game with
./start - Wait for the players and items to come to a stop.
- Press 1 to give a player an item.
- Press "o" for a right answer and "x" for a wrong answer.
- Answer within the time limit.
- Player with the most points wins.
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | give player an item |
| a | rotate items to left |
| s | randomly mix items |
| d | rotate items to right |
| x | current player minus one point |
| o | current player plus one point |
| u | use item (for player in first position only) |
| left arrow | rotate players left |
| right arrow | rotate players right |
| up arrow | randomly mix players |
| esc | quit the game |
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
| left right | move left and right |
| up down | move up and down |
| space | enable or disable (items only) |
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| yoshi coin | |
| red mushroom | |
| green mushroom | |
| pow button | |
| spiney beetle | |
| pirahna plant | |
| bombomb |
not yet
star
feather
question block
- Still need to add effects for the items.
- Character and item z-indices are a little wierd and you can notice it when they move across other sprites.
- Want to add player selection screen.
- Add difficutly changes. The labels are there but nothing changes yet in the game.
- Flow chart created here: https://whimsical.com/mario-quiz-game-UmbMmMaY6MUGTp341ngNJW
- Adding different text files for the different items. If there is a question/problem you want to associate with an item, then you can add your own text. (ex, gamedata/redmushroomQuestions.txt)
To review material in the Total English book series as well as custom questions/problems the teacher would contribute.
- How to focus my attention on the task at hand given a one month deadline.
- How to learn a piece of software (pyglet) with a deadline in mind.
- I learned about the similarities between Pyglet and Pygame.
- How to make a simple a 2D game
- Basic use of GIMP to create (extract) my own sprites.
- The benefits and drawbacks of using a single module to control the constants for a program.
- How to think more about what the customer needs and less about "just making the program work".
- I made a successful program, but the target audience (my students) were just not that "in to it" as I had hoped.
- It is important to make something with the target audience in mind. Make what they want, not what you think they want if you want to increase the chances of having a successful product.
- I should have gathered more data about my market before making a product.
- The program worked but it "missed the mark."
- The importance of having a flowchart to keep track of the logic as the code grows.