MiniKidsGames

I'm very happy to announce the release of this version. This release contains the new feature - Dynamically generated tabbed preferences window. This allows users to change some generic/per-game configuration. Moreover, developers can easily create a tabbed preferences window with a few lines of code.

Note

1. The binary package of MiniKidsGames comes with the latest RubyCocoa framework (0.11.1).
2. Older AddOnGames doesn't work on 0.4.0 due to changes in both RubyCocoa and The Game Framework. ~Please download and reinstall the latest ones.

According to the blog of a RubyCocoa developer, They have released RubyCocoa-0.5.0-preview7 on their cvs/svn repository. As I've been a bit excited about this burning-hot mouth-melting sweet "cocoa", I checked it out and let MiniKidsGames try it.

Though I've encountered a few "bitter" chunk of errors, I mashed these up and swallowed with no problem. I've committed the latest source files, and all the games are ready for RubyCocoa 0.5.0. The next release of MiniKidsGames will be served with this hot-and-sweet drink!!

MiniKidsGames 0.3.9 has been released. The big difference from the last release was some bug fixes including a problem that may crash the game at the main title on some machines. I recommend all users install this release. Xcode Project/File Templates and Add-on Games will be updated soon. (Tank-0.3.8 runs on 0.3.9)

The packages are available at the Downloads page.

The Local CVS repository for MiniKidsGames including Add-On Games and XcodeTemplartes was successfully migrated into sourceforge's subversion repository.

Please see How to check out source files from svn repository for more information on obtaining source files from the repository.

I've been writing documents and tutorials for months, and all the docs / tutorial are available at the MiniKidsGame web site. Though these are still under development, you might be interested especially in documents for developers since these illustrate how MiniKidsGames and its Game Frmework are designed.

Available documents incldudes: Game Framework for RubyCocoa, Mini Game Tutorial. Priter friendly versions are also avilable from Game Framework - All Chapters and Mini Game Tutorial - All Chapters.

I've been making a collection of mini games for kids called MiniKidsGames Since I already created a small gaming framework with RubyCocoa, It didn't take long time to create some games. There are four games at this moment, and will be more and more games hopefully.

Good thing is that my son really loves these games and so does my wife. I showed it to some of my friends and one said "Cool, why don't you sell it?" "Haha, that'll be good but I'll rather make it an open source project," I replied. I don't think there are many educational open source projects, especially ones that uses RubyCocoa so it might be worth publishing.

I like the framework for this game because it makes each game much smaller compared to the one without it. If you get interested, take a look at the MiniKidsGames page. A game framework and Xcode Project files are available as well.