Entries in PyWeek — The length of a piece of string

The ultimate gondola shipping, shape sorting, barge unloading game of all time.

Get the right shapes to the right places to score. But be warned: there are only a limited number of islands to build on and longer cables are expensive! Sort wisely to minimize loss.

This is a team entry consisting of caseman, cbean, eric, htormey.

Race the seas of the world looking for fame and money!

Known bug: the game gets slower after each race. If you quit and restart everything works fine, and your score is kept. Sorry, didn't caught that during testing :)

Brother Albert is an apprentice bellringer who's just starting to learn the ropes. Help him ring the bells in the right order to open the exit. Get through all the churches and earn the title of Master of Bells and Whistles (or just bells, anyway).
This is a solo entry by gcewing.

Seven Centuries ago Felimon, Lord of the Shadows, was banned from Kiralia and trapped in the Sphere of Chaos. The portal to this sphere is located in a magically enforced chest, tightly wrapped up in more magically enforced string - all just to make sure that Felimon will never ever set a claw on the surface of Kiralia.

But some days ago, the magical string was destroyed into several pieces, considerabily weakening the lock on the chest, making it even possible for Felimon to escape if he notices it in time. Only one piece of the magical string was found nearby the open chest and the Order chose you to retrieve the other pieces.
It is known that those pieces will set themselves together if piled on each other, enabling the Order to retain the once powerfull lock as soon as all pieces of the magical string are back in the Orders hand.

But you have to hurry - every day that passes increases the possibility that Felimon will sense the weakness of his prison and might try to leave it...

Actually we both live in the wrong hemisphere for this kind of sleep deprivation, but we think it'd help with crunch time, and we believe in a round Earth.
This is a team entry consisting of alex, biccy.

You control the Garbage Collector. You have to string up memory fragments and dispose of them at specific dump locations. Don't let memory fragments to escape!

You can chose GC-ing of multiple languages, from easy (Python) to hard (Assembly)

Have fun!
This is a team entry consisting of goss, kukkerman, lizzybennet, Ron, sanka, Syl.

Linux - Mac slowness problem:

In Linux and Mac the game is running 
too slow, theres a one line fix for this:
 in kiko/base.py , near the begining, replace the line

time_service = time.clock

with

time_service = time.time

As expected, I didn't have as much time to work on this as I'd hoped. Here's what is supposed to be the premise:

You have been kidnapped by a mad scientist and must escape his facility. However, his mutant radioactive kittens stand in your way! You must collect bits of string in order to distract the kittens and make your escape. If you have enough string, you can also braid it into rope for climbing down at certain parts.

As it stands, you can pick up string but it can't actually do anything with it. Also, the kittens don't move. Basically, to beat the level, all you have to do is not touch any kittens and get to the door. It is possible to climb up and down existing ropes, however.

Digby Marshmallow's Space Adventures!

Nausea Warning: please play in windowed mode (change in options then restart the game) if you suffer from motion sickness.

You have 25 seconds to get the ball of twine to the end of the level. This gets tricky because the ball of twine is quite bouncy.

You must roll to the end using the left and right arrow keys on the keyboard. You can press F5 to take a screenshot and '~' to bring down a console.

"Choo choo!"

All aboard the RegEx Express, where we be learnin' things and parsin' strings! Using curses and verses we'll be mixing humor and rhyme with good-ol'-fashioned ascii graphics.

So join us back on the track -- the choo choo track -- and it's full steam ahead on this string bling fling!

A buncha folk from forums.xkcd.com.

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Richard's the primary coder with abzde, cfuller, Ehtirno and Cosmologicon helping. He also created most of the artwork with Haragorn pitching in too. mp and tee_skoowared composed the music.
This is a team entry consisting of abzde, cfuller, Cosmologicon, Ehtirno, Haragorn, mp, richard.

• When you play daily, it can be set to download the National Geographic Photo of the Day as your N-Puzzle.
• It is really a "N" Puzzle, so you and your computer can play 100x100 puzzle which is shuffled 100 times. But how long it might take for your computer to solve it, I can't say. (Drop me a line, if your supercomputer solves it in minutes)