Adam Monsen

I want to write a simple kid’s game. It would show something like “A B _ D”, then speak “What letter is missing?”. If you hit the “c” key, it would say “Congratulations!”. If you hit any other key, “Try again!”.

Anyone have pointers on game-creation frameworks? I’m looking for something cross-platform and very high-level. I want to be able to write and play the game in a few hours max.

These look hopeful: Scratch, LÖVE, Racket, Alice, Pygame.

I want this crawl version to be as simple as possible. Eventually I might want to add score tracking and animations.

I could also create a web-based game that would work, say, in a web browser on an iPad, but this smells a bit more complex than I’m hoping for right now.

Here are a couple other related links I came across while poking around:

• How to Design Worlds: Imaginative Programming in DrScheme
• Looking for an easy game development platform, suggestions?