This tutorial is about building a board game. It was inspired by some of the great work that was done at the Pycon 2016 Game Camp Sprint (In particular, the GoKivyGo project).

Bao is a Swahili word that means board or board game, and is a common form of game played in Eastern Africa. Bao is a Mancala-style game that involves sowing stones (or seeds) into pits (or houses). The version we will be implementing here is sometimes called Kalah, and is much simpler than the more traditional bao la kujifunza or bao la kiswahili games.

Game Camp is an open-source project aimed at helping anyone learn to make mobile games using Python, by developing teaching materials and tutorials that make the process fun and accessible. It is based on Python and Kivy, and targets Android and IOS devices. We are looking for developers, educators, designers from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill levels to help us develop the Game Camp materials. You can find the git repo and wiki at: http://github.com/learnleapfly/gamecamp

Unless otherwise indicated (with an explicit LICENSE file)

• Source code for this project is released under the MIT License
• All other files and assets (e.g. graphics, sound files, Jupyter Notebooks) are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)

Game Camp is maintained by

• Kjell Wooding: [email protected]
• Amy Wooding: [email protected]

Places to Start:

• Wiki: https://github.com/learnleapfly/gamecamp/wiki
• Chat: #gamecamp on https://pyconsprints.slack.com. Visit https://pyconsprints.herokuapp.com to request an account

• Website: http://learnleapfly.org
• Twitter: @LearnLeapFly