Interested in contributing to the development of Fractionauts? Awesome! You'd be helping children learn math and further solidfying your place in the free and open source development community.
All work on this project is done via this Github repository. If you'd like to squash a bug or implement a new feature, consider making it an issue in the Github issue tracker. This way, all contributors are aware of bugs/feature requests and work is less likely to be duplicated.
When you're ready to submit code, submit a pull request with your changes. Patches are welcome!
Fractionauts is written in Python 2. It uses the excellent PyGame library and is designed to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO-PC.
It is highly recommended to use a Linux distribution when running or developing Fractionauts. The game requires Python and some dependencies and has not been tested to work on Windows or OSX, though it might be possible.
Levels in Fractionauts are represented by JSON files. They are titled sequentially, numerically, starting at 0 (0.json, 1.json, etc...)
The JSON files have a relatively simple structure, consisting of three main parts:
- type, which is the type of fraction math the question involves. This can be addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division
- options, which is an array of answers the user can select
- answer, which is the correct or goal answer the user should arrive at