GSoC'25 Week-05 Update by Krish (#272)

* Add author profile for Krish ,  updates for week2
- updated metadata for both weeks
- added week2s blog
- image for the new architecture

* GSoC'25 Week 3 Updated by Krish

* GSoC'25 Week 04 Update by Krish

* GSoC'25 Week 05 Update by Krish

Author: MostlyKIGuess

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+title: "GSoC '25 Week 5 Update by Krish Pandya"
+excerpt: "Animations, Toolbars, and a Playable Game"
+category: "DEVELOPER NEWS"
+date: "2025-07-05"
+slug: "2025-07-05-gsoc-25-mostlyk-week05"
+author: "@/constants/MarkdownFiles/authors/krish-pandya.md"
+tags: "gsoc25,sugarlabs,week05,mostlyk"
+image: "assets/Images/GSOC.png"
+---
+
+# Week 5: Animations, Toolbars, and a Playable Game
+
+**Project:** [GTK4 Exploration](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/rsHsYZKy)
+
+**Mentors:** [Walter Bender](https://github.com/walterbender), [Ibiam Chihurumnaya Ibiam](https://github.com/chimosky), [Juan Pablo Ugarte](https://github.com/xjuan)
+
+**Reporting Period:** June 22, 2025 – June 28, 2025
+
+---
+
+## Travel and Context
+
+This week started with an 8-hour flight from Hyderabad to Diu ( my hometown ) between Sunday and Monday.
+And _YES_ , I am home, sweet home. It was fun working on animations , toolbars and the game.
+
+
+## Animations and Toolbars
+
+So as discussed and sneak peeked in last week, first part was finishing the toolbar integration and that was done! I also added animations.py.
+I have always been a big fan of animations, my first addition to my [PKMS Site](https://pkms.vercel.app/) ( Personal Knowledge Management System ) was a handcrafted and personal documentation of Manim which a python animation library.
+
+Now it has a lot of things but it started as a manim documentation.
+
+### Animations
+
+Added a few clean effects:
+
+- `fade-in` and `fade-out`
+- `color` transitions
+- `scale-down`
+
+
+### Toolbars
+
+Features include and tested in example:
+
+- Full range of buttons: open, save, undo, redo, cut, copy, paste
+- Multi-select toggles, zoom controls, view modes
+- Toolbuttons ( This requires palette somehow so will be updated next week. Sorry for the wait! )
+- And because of that if someone wants to play the game, you would have to wait till next week for the palette finish and the ToolButton addition in library.
+
+
+## Why Not HelloWorld Yet?
+
+The actual HelloWorld example has more dependencies than just graphics. It needs:
+
+- `widgets.py`
+which further needs:
+  - `RadioButton`, `ToolButton`, `ToolBarButton`, `PaletteMenuBox` etc.
+  - A bunch of internal glue that isn't finalized yet
+
+A good HelloWorld will take a few more weeks to land, realistically.
+It requires almost all graphics-related components working in unison. Instead of rushing a half-baked HelloWorld, I decided to make something fun using what I already have.
+
+
+## The Game: Super Ball Dodge
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B517C_LTCns?si=u4zGfRp0yEJca8_O" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+So I built a game. It's simple, but fully interactive, and it uses the toolkit as it currently exists ( well it uses ToolButton which is half baked, so you would be able to play it by next week, can watch the video to see what it is though! ).
+
+### Game Mechanics
+
+- Use `WASD`, arrow keys, or toolbar buttons to move
+- Press `P` to pause, `R` to restart
+- Touch the red ball and you lose
+- Hitting walls increases your speed and randomizes your color
+- Max speed is capped to keep it playable
+
+This game is both a stress test and a fun break. It's a good way to validate rendering, event handling, animation, and user interaction at once.
+Also it kind of stands like a hello world alternative for now before everything is done in unison and final decisions are made.
+
+
+## Summary of Progress
+
+- Built and finalized core animations
+- Integrated and tested full-featured toolbar
+- Added working event bindings and accelerators
+- Created Super Ball Dodge as a game/activity testbed
+
+---
+
+## Next Steps
+
+- Refactor window tests (they're not up to standard yet)
+- Finalize and commit `widgets.py`, `ToolButton`, and all of `pallete` stuff.
+- Start building the actual HelloWorld once widget infra is stable
+
+---
+
+## Links
+
+- [Project Page](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/rsHsYZKy)
+- [Toolkit Repo (Python)](https://github.com/MostlyKIGuess/sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py)
+- [sugar-ext (C bindings)](https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-ext)
+- [Game Demo Video](https://youtu.be/B517C_LTCns)
+
+
+## Closing Thoughts
+
+It's funny how animations were the thing that got me into this headspace of _I GOTTA DO SOMETHING DYNAMIC_ , and I have always loved geometry and maths. And I got to introduce and do something related to that this week and this game was the result of what came out this week and I am glad I got to do it.
+
+Until next week,
+Krish!
+(P.S. If you couldn’t tell already , I love hiding pop culture references and breaking the fourth wall in these posts. So yes, you, yup, you alright, the reader.... enjoy.)