[Hamara-devel] A missing game which I haven't found in the FOSS world.

[shirish]

Hi all,

I have been looking for a game for my nephews and nieces for quite 
sometime but haven't found a FOSS equivalent. Dunno about the newbies, 
but the generation my age would remember the analogue game where you had 
shapes of different continents and you were supposed to fit the 
continent to the place where it would fit so kids (like me) learnt about 
shapes and sizes. Think it would be better to show what I mean online 
then just speaking :-

See http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm and 
http://www.seterra.net/

With OSM's data and using today's toolkits like gtk+ (gimp toolkit) or 
and QT .

http://www.gtk.org/ and https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK%2B/

qt.io

  So there is quite a bit of potential to make something there.

And while I'm on the gtk train, let me also share a kickstarter which 
was successful which hamara could/should look at as well -

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381437927/endless-computers/description

As can be seen they learnt the same lessons that we learnt or are 
learning as well.

If needed, could ask around and see if we are able to source a unit or 
two to see what they have done. Somehow I forgot that kickstarter and 
the kick being that it was all done in 4 days only, the amount they 
wanted they got in 4 days flat and almost 75% and from what I recollect 
they didn't do any advertising at all unlike many who do.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org