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I have a little son. I love it.
I have got a little Raspberry Pi. I love it too (in a different way, of course).
Thinking about both, I decided to make some simple games for him, using cheap and safe components: a (far enought) TV, a wireless mouse and keyboard and -of course- one of my Raspberry Pis.
To make many games quickly I choose my favourite language, Python, and started coding a little framework to avoid repeating boring tasks (loading images and sounds, printing things on the screen, waiting for keypresses...)
So Games Pit is an assortment of little games (including a launcher) and an easy to learn framework to create new games.
You will need:
- A computer: a Raspberry PI http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs with a TV could become a great and cheap videoconsole, but you can use a netbook, desktop or whatever. Keyboard and/or mouse are useful to enjoy all the features :-)
- Python (tested in 3.5)
- Pygame and ConfigObj libraries
- Install pygame and Configobj if they are not already in your system
pip3 install pygame configobj
- Download Games Pit https://github.com/alfem/gamespit/archive/master.zip
- Uncompress the zip file in your home directory. Now you have got a "gamespit" directory.
unzip master.zip
- Edit gamespit.conf (in gamespit directory) to set the games full screen and deactivate debug mode (I use to upload it with these settings on)
- Get into Games Pit directory and run it:
./gamespit
- Quit Games Pit main menu pressing '''Left Shift''' + '''ESC''' (child-proof)
If you like coding, you can make your own minigames (Making New Games) using Games Pit framework. It is really easy.
If you are a teacher, you can use Games Pit to teach programming: Games Pit for Teachers.