[Announcement] New game - Ross and his Cool Trip to School

[alshapton]

Hi I've finally finished it !

This is an educational story-board style game for 5 to 7 year old children to help then learn about road safety. The game features Ross as he tries to get to school safely and the different types of danger that he faces on the way.

It's not a "game" in the true sense of the genre, but it is a useful tool for teaching, as it is based on a book about Ross (a real person!).

Narration is provided, as are sound effects, and a scoring system.

I have also used Ren'py as a loader - a spash screen on an auto-running CD prompts the user to either run, or install (depending on choice).

I cant put a copy for download, as my local council hold the copyright on the characters, so should I formally announce it and put some screen shots on the "games" page (if so - how do I do this?) or what ?

[PyTom]

Well, I think that if you upload some screenshots here, some kind soul would update the website. Also, if you have a webpage, or there's some kind of contact for people who want to license the game, people might be interested in that.

[alshapton]

That'll be great -
for a descripton, see my first post - for a contact (a web page should be up in a week or so) use alshapton@hotmail.com

The license is commercial (as the development is being paid for by the local authority) - licensing agreements can be negotiated (reasonably!!!!!)

PSA screenshots

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[monele]

Awww, I really wanted to "play" this one ^^;... It looks really interesting and well done

[DaFool]

alshapton, an official website would really really be helpful ^_^.

Yay, March 2007 has been a most kick-ass month for Ren'Py games!

[alshapton]

All:
Many thanks for your comments - I will try and sort out a website of sorts soon -

as to playing it - would a soundless version do ?
Its a commercial product and the sound bloats it to approximately 40+Mb of installation - anyone know of a hosting site that deals with 40+Mb downloads ?

Of course I could try and down-sample the sound to reduce the space required (.....maybe..... )

The product's licensing arrangements are not in place yet, apart from use within the local authority's area (i.e. schools) - so if anyone wants to licensse it to their own local authority, we can talk (in conjunction with my own local authority) to see what the t&c are.........

[DaFool]

Doublecheck with the copyright owner first (yeah that's the main thing with working on commission). You are not obligated to provide a sample / trial of the game in this community, although doing so will let PyTom and others know how exactly Ren'Py is being used. I will link to the site regardless, and who knows it might actually become a most visited site -- for a county!

Actually, I have been thinking about it some more, plus my own experience with county public schools. True, it was the beginning of the internet back then. But I never checked out their webpages...bake sales and blood drives aren't exactly the most interesting topics on the web you know It's different with universities since you have to get all coursework materials online, since the instructor can't be bothered with distributing everything in lecture.

It seems this may be the type of product to be packaged in an orientation CD for parents. If that's the case, everything needed will have to reside in-cd. If it will be a hassle to create a website for it when it's not really needed, then maybe don't have to.

Instead, can you provide a link to the .gov (or .edu?) trunk site of the local authority that commissioned this work?

Thanks!

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[alshapton]

I have put up a website -

http://www.geocities.com/rossandhiscooltriptoschool

It has some basic information about the game and a flash-based demo (created with "wink" - thanks PyTom!!)

Its basic but its a start!