paulmadore/hanksmash

A bambam clone with significant modifications; a keyboard smashing/button mashing program for infants. No harm can be done to the operating environment when infant is running HankSmash. Hardware is a different story.

Demonstration

About

HankSmash is free software released under the Gnu Public License 3. The entire text of that license is available in COPYING.phm.

Important: Credit is due to the following four individuals who developed bambam:

• Don Brown
• Spike Burch
• Marcin Owsiany
• Bram Meleman

Running

HankSmash requires PyGame to run. If you do not presently have PyGame and you are on a Debian-based system, run:

sudo apt-get install python python-pygame

Now:

1. Unpack HankSmash
2. Make hanksmash.py and hanksmash.6 executable: chmod +x hanksmash.py hanksmash.6
3. Launch the game: python hanksmash.py or python hanksmash.py --uppercase [for uppercase letters to be displayed instead of lowercase letters]

Important: to quit, type out the word quit

4. Optionally, you can choose to mute some or all of the sound effects in HankSmash.

   To mute only a specified noise, do python hanksmash.py --sound_blacklist data/sounds/.wav

    	NOTE: FILES.phm lists all sound and image files included in 
    	the data folder, complete with path.
   

   To mute all noise before the game even starts, do python hanksmash.py --sound_blacklist

   If you mute all noises before you begin, you will have to restart the program in order to use ANY noises. So, in many cases you may just want to type out

mute

to make it go silent and then 

unmute

to bring the sound back.

5. When your child or you are done with the program, type out the word

quit

Notes

Doodle Gum by imagex is used in this game.

hanksmash's Issues

Bug

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "hanksmash.py", line 258, in
quit_pos = input(pygame.event.get(), quit_pos)
File "hanksmash.py", line 137, in input
print_image()
File "hanksmash.py", line 169, in print_image
h = random.randint(0, sheight - img.get_height())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/random.py", line 242, in randint
return self.randrange(a, b+1)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/random.py", line 218, in randrange
raise ValueError, "empty range for randrange() (%d,%d, %d)" % (istart, istop, width)
ValueError: empty range for randrange() (0,-41, -41)