This might be the ticket: http://inventwithpython.com/ http://inventwithpython.com/ . I haven't gone through it really, but the goal of teaching through making

This might be the ticket: http://inventwithpython.com/ http://inventwithpython.com/ . I haven't gone through it really, but the goal of teaching through making games is similar, and I do know he wrote a pretty good clone of gorillas (http://github.com/jesusabdullah/gorillas http://github.com/jesusabdullah/gorillas is my own copy, if it interests you).