By the move activity, child learn to move mouse on screen area
The principle is that child must uncover a picture hidden by a cache. For this, the movements of the mouse erase the cache and step by step, the picture appears
Presentation of the screen areas:
Chronometer activation (only for difficult level): child have 60 seconds for uncover all the picture... and enter in the 8 best times !
selection of the game mode:
"normal": you have to uncover the picture
"ghost": you have to uncover the picture... but each second, a cache that have disappeared, appears again !
button for select the level of the activity (and adjusts it with the children age):
button for select the previous and next pictures in the theme (you can use the left and right arrows of the keyboard)
button for select the theme : you click on the button and the theme changes immediatly.
button for quit the activity and return to the main menu
mouse uncovering the picture
When the picture is completly uncovered, a pause of 3 seconds is done in order that child can see the picture and then an other picture in the same theme is randomized selected.
Pysycache is provided with some GPL themes:
ABCBook: this theme collects pictures associated at the alphabet letter. When the cache (a cube with a letter) is shown, the sound associated with the letter is played in order to give an indication at the child.
Animals: this theme contents animals photographies : insects, wild animals...
Food: this theme contents fruits and vegetable
Plants: this theme contents plants, tree photographies
Number: this theme collects pictures of numbers from 1 to 10. On the cache, you show a number of a object. The child must move the mouse in order to show the associated number (and the letters of it's word). And the sound of the number is played.
Sky: this theme contents photographies of every thing that we could see in the sky
Sport:
and other non compliant GPL themes are available:
ABCBook: XXX additional photographies for the ABCBook theme
Animals: XXXX additional photographies for the Animals theme
Earth: XXX additional photographies of natural sites of all continents : vulcanos, mountains, seas...
Food: XXX additional photographies for the Food theme
Plants: XXX additional photographies for the Plants theme
Sky: XXX additional photographies for the Sky theme
Sports: XXX additional photographies for the Sport theme
Vehicle: XXX additional photographies of transportation
World: XXX additional photographies of interesting monuments from few countries, without differences of continents : Sphynx, San Francisco, Japan, London, Paris, Netherlands, Pompei, Mont Saint Michel. (See the copyright.txt file for know the exact site)
Here you will find questions about the theme creation
For made a personnal theme, follow the steps:
go in the themes-move directory
create a sub-directory (for example my-theme)
copy (or create) in your theme directory a file named logo.png. You can use the file masque-button-theme.png located in the directory doc of PySyCache. This picture will identify your theme at children. The size of the picture must be of 64 pixels width and 64 for height.
copy in your theme directory:
the pictures to uncover: they must have a size of 720 pixels width and 540 of height. You can use the file masque-image-clair.png located in the directory doc of PySyCache. The extension of theses files may be '.jpeg', '.png' or '.bmp'
sounds that will be played when the picture will be totally uncovered
create a sub-directory cache, and copy in this cache directory:
the caches of the pictures that children must find. They must have a size of 720 pixels of width and 540 of height. You can use the file masque-image-fonce.png located in the directory doc of Pysycache.
sounds that will be played when the cache appears at the screen
go back in the directory of your theme and create the file of the association between the caches and the pictures. This file must have the same name of your picture and the extension .dfg
(for example, for a picture named mypicture000.jpeg, the definition file will be mypicture000.dfg)
In this file, add a line by available cache, each line contents :
the name of the cache to use
a comma
the sound that will be played when cache will appears (if no sound have to be played, leave empty)
b.jpeg,b.ogg cache-avion.jpeg,b.ogg
Pysycache will choise randomly one on these lines
create the files credits.txt and copyright.html
For translate this theme, you just have to modify the association between the file and its cache (*.dfg):
For this picture
a french user will read "Ananas" and will have the following dfg file :
a.jpeg,a.ogg cache-avion.jpeg,a.ogg
an english user will read "Pineapple" and will have the following dfg file :
p.jpeg,p.ogg cache-avion.jpeg,p.ogg
For make cache for the ABCBook, you can use the gimp script-fu
launch The Gimp
create a new picture
go in the "Script-fu/PySyCache" menu and choice the ABC Book with pink and green cube entrie
validate, and the cache is automatically done :
Here, you can see below a video of the script-fu usage
For make a cache for the number theme, you can use the gimp script-fu:
launch The Gimp
create a new picture
go in the "Script-fu/PySyCache" menu and choice the Theme number... entry :
validate, and the cache is automatically done :
Here, you can see below a video of the script-fu usage
For resize your pictures in ordre to have correct caches, you can:
make it yourself with your prefered software : resize your picture at 720 x 540 pixels
use the gimp script-fu
launch The Gimp
open your picture (it must have a scale of 4/3 in landscape format)
go in the "Script-fu/PySyCache" menu and choice the Scale picture... entry :
validate, and your picture is automatically resize at the correct size
Here, you can see below a video of the script-fu usage