Game Project in Smalltalk/Squeak

29.01.09 – 14:00

SWA @ HPI Game from freenerd on Vimeo.

This video is a screencast of a game me and a group implemented in the winterterm 2008 / 2009 at the lecture of software architecture at the HPI. The game is an implementation of a board game, featuring an architecture making use of design patterns and we even have a computer opponent for single player fun. Furthermore we had an extra focus on usability and language-less and child-conform design, because the game is to run on the OLPC XO-1.

We had to use the programming language Smalltalk in Squeak. It was a tough ride through this awful delopment environment, that drove us mad with it’s tendency to break down every once a while with minor to unknown cause. So this project has cost a lot more time and sweat than expected (and needed if we were able to use our prefered weapons of choice). There are still some things to do for us, but we only have two weeks left, so big things aren’t going to change anymore. I may make the result downloadable if i’m allowed to do so license-wise … i have to check that first.