This project is pre-alpha, the state of the project changes rapidly from day to day. Follow us on twitter for updates, @ProjectPyland.

Pyland aims to provide a fun and creative environment on the Raspberry Pi (or other platforms) to aid children learning programming and Computer Science Concepts. It was started as a summer intern project at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory June-August 2014 supported by a grant from the Broadcom Foundation. It was started by Ben Catterall, Heidi Howard, Joshua Landau and Ashley Newson under the supervision of Alex Bradbury and Robert Mullins.

These install instructions may be incomplete and you may require additional packages to the ones listed here

git clone https://github.com/pyland/pyland
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev gdebi libtinyxml-dev zlib1g-dev mesa-common-dev mesa-utils mesa-utils-extra build-essential gedit
g++-4.7 libsdl2-image-dev
wget http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ajn44/files/libsdl2_2.0.3-1_armhf.deb
sudo gdebi libsdl2_2.0.3-1_armhf.deb
wget http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ajn44/files/libsdl2-image_2.0.0-1_armhf.deb
sudo gdebi libsdl2-image_2.0.0-1_armhf.deb
wget http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ajn44/files/libsdl2-ttf_2.0.12-1_armhf.deb
sudo gdebi libsdl2-ttf_2.0.12-1_armhf.deb
wget http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ajn44/files/libgoogle-glog0_0.3.3-1_armhf.deb
sudo gdebi libgoogle-glog0_0.3.3-1_armhf.deb
wget http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ajn44/files/libgoogle-glog-dev_0.3.3-1_armhf.deb
sudo gdebi libgoogle-glog-dev_0.3.3-1_armhf.deb

cd zygote/src

For compiling on the Raspberry Pi, use:

#Put your python version here (change both PYTHON_VERSION and LIBBOOST_PYTHON). Need at least 3.2.
COMPILERP=g++-4.7 PYTHON_VERSION=3.2 LIBBOOST_PYTHON=boost_python-py32 make

For desktop, you will need the packages listed above, many of which can be found on the repos e.g.

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-ttf-dev

For compiling on desktop, use:

# Set both PYTHON_VERSION and LIBBOOST_PYTHON.
# LIBBOOST_PYTHON is typically boost_python-py32 or boost_python3.
#
# Set COMPILER to the most recent g++ or clang++ version available,
# but at least g++-4.7 or a recent clang++. Plain "g++" is the default.
PLATFORM=desktop COMPILER=g++-4.7 PYTHON_VERSION=3.2 LIBBOOST_PYTHON=boost_python-py32 make

Please note that desktop support is secondary, and may be incomplete. At the moment, there is only a Unix version.

##Usage

Keybindings

• e - open the editor with current sprite's script

• r - run the script for the current sprite

• h - stop the script

• Shift - Hold down when running a script for fast mode (can't use with manual control)

• updownleftright / wasd - move sprite

• m - print the focused sprite's location

• escape - go back to level selection map

• =- - zooming in and out

• Ctrl-0 - return to default zoom level

##API

• help() and help(command) - Get help on the current task and any in-game (or other) commands.

• move(direction) - Move the character in the given direction. Parameter direction: north, east, south or west

• walkable(direction) - Determines if the character can move in that direction. Parameter direction: north, east, south or west

• cut(direction) - Cuts down vines or logs. Parameter direction: north, east, south or west

• look(radius) - Find all objects in a given radius from the character. Parameter: radius of the area to search for objects in.