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PyKiosk is a kiosk I made with Python and Pygame, for one of Nils Chertier’s projects. The code is available under GPL license. You can use it to launch videos and apps from an interactive menu, that works with Windows and Linux. The background is an animated GIF. If you need help with it, contact me !

Nils has always created physical devices to present Hanging Around, his RPGMaker-based videogame. Arcade stations, more specifically ; the first one being installed at Grenoble’s School of Art ; the second which is now at my place ; and now a third one for an exhibition (above).
For the latter, Nils needed an interactive menu able to either launch the game, or launch some videos of projects he worked on. He designed an animated GIF to put in the background of the menu for the "old school" (…)

To make a quick portrait of the game...

There are several IDEs and tools used to develop interactive fictions, and more specifically visual novels. I have been experimenting for a while with RenPY, a Python-based environment. With RenPY one can make games for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android, which is great. Many of those games are then release on Itch.io or Steam.
Here are a few examples of small games developed by other people with RenPY : Someone Stole My Lunch puts you in the position of an employee with a lunchbox problem (…)

Discovering the Arduboy