Re: [Newbies] Making a Lemmings/Pingus Clone on Squeak

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> Hi all,
>
> I'm teaching Squeak to my students as a part to Introduction to
> Informatics (not to computer sciences[1]) to my students. I want to make
> a collective project with them. The idea is to create a microcommunity
> of problem solvers using computer artefacts (specially Squeak), so I
> want that the project to be made involves in someway the idea of solving
> a project collectively. The idea is also that the problem to solve be a
> collective/collaborative game, so I'm thinking about creating a lemmings
> clone in Squeak.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics
> [2] http://pingus.seul.org/
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> I'm a newbie on Squeak, but I want to learn with my students, so my
> questions are:
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> * ¿What is necessary to make this game?
> * If I want to make a collective project solving, ¿what tools could be
> learned also (control version systems like monticello) and wich
> infrastructures can be used for that?
> * From the experience using the Drawing tool and from the one in the Car
> that doesn't get out of the way, I was thinking that may be the scenary
> for this game could be some kind of drawing and that pinguins will
> follow some kind of preexisting path on the scenary, but one of them can
> erase part of the drawing, if the proper task is gave to it (erasing the
> floor would be like digging).
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> Any other help on this problem wold be nice.