Visit http://childsplay.sf.net for info on childsplay childsplay ________________________________________________________ Childsplay is now pretty stable and ready to play !! If you want to help or want info on how to help, childsplay@users.sf.net What's Childsplay ?: Childsplay is a 'suite' of educational games for young children, like gcompris, but without the overkill of c/c++ and the gnome environ.:-) Also the use of the SDL libraries makes smooth animation and the playing of sound very easy. This is still beta, but the updates are frequent so it's get better al the time. Requirements: Python 2.1 or higher www.python.org pygame 1.6 or higher www.pygame.org SDL libraries (at least SDL-image,ttf,mixer) (see your distro) Advise from the pygame install doc: "Installation You should definitely begin by installing a binary package for your system. The binary packages usually come with or give the information needed for dependencies." Please RTFM wich comes with pygame,SDL, and Python if you gonna install from source. Optional: pyfribidi 0.3 or higher http://hspell-gui.sourceforge.net/pyfribidi.html pyfribidi is only needed if you want Hebrew or Arabic language support. Download and installing Childsplay: You can download Childsplay at http://childsplay.sf.net. Installing childsplay is very easy, it's written in python, so there's no compiling, and it runs 'out of the box'. Be sure to read the README.FIRST, there some changes.