What python games do you want for XBMC?

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I already started such a script
but it is a huge work for me as we need internet database for questions and python script to handle player answers
I thought about a multiplayer based game, a server has to receive players that want to play and start a game as soon as all needed players are waiting (nintendo DS style)
I started my python interface for 3 players. A question is shown, then 4 possibly answers. Then a 10 seconds timer starts waiting for player action. As a player push its button, the player has 5 seconds to push the correct answer. If the answer is ok, the answer is shown and an explanation can be displayed. Then a new turn can start.
This is what my pre-alpha-test-for-myself version can do.
The question is just a test question setted in the core script, but a friend developped a set of php files with a sql database to store questions.
The interest of the database is that we need a million questions and it is quite impossible for only one coder to make the php script, the python script and fill the database.
My idea was to develop a server with many different user accreditations. Super admin : the server admin
admin : a special guest, can do evertyhting but no access to the php server
super contibutors : can fill the database and those ones are known to be good in their language and with good questions/answers. They can approve other users submitted questions
simple contributors : can just fill the database with questions. Then questions must be approve by super contributors

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Ok I'm sure you see what I mean. Many users has to participate, and I'm not sure it would be easy to find so many people interested in filling the database

Another idea would be to ask one of those many website that propose quizz games. They may want to share the project has it can be multiplateforme. and so we can work hand in the hand together.

the internet multiplayer function is another Idea in my mind but I don't have any clue on how to synchronise every players together...
Local quizz games just get a question with answers and explanation, then one player = on key ; 3 players for a great xbox quizz game

Some friends of mine developed sometime ago HackTrivial, a Trivial-like game with hacktivism, technology and similar content game. The people aded questions that they know and later it was used on the KasLab Days. You could ask them about give it to you since all are GNU entusiast. On the other hand, at first i didn't believe at on-line game but as you describe it should work if your local XBox has the time control. This would allow cheats changing the script code, but at least it could allow real-time multi-player game

P.D.: Please... let this topic only as a list of games and use others for the develop (i asking for no OffTopics... definitely i'm getting old )

List of (possible) games at this moment:

Break-Out (Arkanoid)
Light-Cycles (Tron)
Pong
Asteroids
Frogger
Pacman
Buzzer (Trivial)
(New) Gun-Man (using joystick to move visor)
(New) Galaga (aka "Space Invaders with Steroids" )
(New) XBill (of course...)
(New) Missile-Command (Yes! Yes! Yes!)

Any more?

"demineur" I don't know the english word for it...
the game you push squares, and a number display how many bombs are around your shot !
It should be VERY easy

hey ! I remember ! A french guy from Quebec (French Canada) made a bandimancho game (jackpot) I have to find it out and to post it !!!

solexalex Wrote:"demineur" I don't know the english word for it...
the game you push squares, and a number display how many bombs are around your shot !
It should be VERY easy

minesweeper. I think thats what its called anyway

Just keep in mind that I don't know of anyway in XBMC to draw lines or freely rotate images. You could make an effort to fake these but it would cause hardsihp...

Asteron Wrote:Just keep in mind that I don't know of anyway in XBMC to draw lines or freely rotate images. You could make an effort to fake these but it would cause hardsihp...

Ohh ! I just had a look in the xbmcgui lib documentation and I was so surprised that no 'angle' parameter was available for the controlImage ...
It could be so interesting to add it !
Another solution (never tried) : use a button with as only texture the image, then set the angle parameter to make it rotate... ?

solexalex Wrote:Ohh ! I just had a look in the xbmcgui lib documentation and I was so surprised that no 'angle' parameter was available for the controlImage ...
It could be so interesting to add it !
Another solution (never tried) : use a button with as only texture the image, then set the angle parameter to make it rotate... ?

Button? There's no label on XbmcGuiLib? (i ask because i don't know...)

Quote:List of (possible) games at this moment:

Break-Out (Arkanoid)
Light-Cycles (Tron)
Pong
Asteroids
Frogger
Pacman
Buzzer (Trivial)
Wild Gunman (using joystick to move visor)
Galaga (aka "Space Invaders with Steroids" )
XBill
Missile-Command
(New) GuitarHero (I think is easy enought to develope something similar on phyton without 3D...)
(New) PyDDR (Yes, we have StepMania, but why not?)

This topics is "What python games do you want", not "what python games i want" Please, help me!!!