pie: game development for kids

November 13, 2010

At RubyConf this year, we hosted a Kids Track. One of the activities was to make web adventure games.

If you want to make a Pie game, go to the pie-bakery. If you have questions about creating games with pie or suggestions for improvements, you can sign up to this google group and post questions or ideas via the web or email.

Check out the games that the kids made this week:

I also gave a talk at the conference about the making of Pie. Here are the slides from the talk:

**[The Making of Pie](http://www.slideshare.net/sarah.allen/the-making-of-pie "The Making of Pie")**

View more [presentations](http://www.slideshare.net/) from [Sarah Allen](http://www.slideshare.net/sarah.allen).

Here are github repos: \# this lets you do local pie development, generates a [Sinatra](http://www.sinatrarb.com/)-based webapp gem install pie

https://github.com/blazingcloud/pie-bakery
http://pie-bakery.heroku.com # hosted IDE (build in Rails)

http://github.com/blazingcloud/mobile-pie # uses Rhomobile to create an app for any SmartPhone platform (tested on iPhone and Android)
rake run:iphone
rake run:android

We just created a pie-cooks google group for people who are working on creating/improving Pie.

Pivotal Tracker project:
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/115060