By Team Yogurt

Adventure

What’s the Goal of OLPC Adventure?

•Creative Writing

•Multiplayer Collaboration

•Fun!

What is OLPC Adventure?Players take turns writing the lines of a story

But they can only see the previously written line

A shared image gives the story focus.

Two modes of play

What is OLPC Adventure? (cont.)

•One laptop•Many children One story

•Many laptops•Many children Many stories

Player 1

Return to menuStory is done

How does a game flow?

Players Join

Players Write Lines

Options are chosen

What’s the Result?

The finished story is uploaded to a central server, where the stories can then be read by the teacher.

HTML Fileand Story Image

How Was it Made?

Model

View

Controller

Image Library

Player

Story

PyGTKuses

encapsulates

encapsulates

Challenges and Changes

Original version had a play mode using the Mesh.

The Mesh option was dropped after testing revealed poor network performance.

Challenges and Changes

Our instructions were originally a wall of text.

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Had to do our best to “whittle it down” to something that kids could understand.

Challenges and Changes

Images were chosen by guys, and were unintentionally geared towards boys.

Goes to show that guys never know what girls want.

How Could It Be Better?

•Use a host-specified image in the story

•Spruce up User Interfaces to make them more appealing.

•Have a “Display All Previous Lines” mode (versus only one line)

•More fancy HTML output.

Leftover Bugs Feature Ideas

•Potentially asynchronized Image Libraries across multiple instances

•Users with multiple names lead to GUI glitches.

•Instructions are questionable

•Multiple Children/Laptops/Stories mode is hard to set up.