First pyweek.

sonneveld on 2011/09/04 04:27 of Godspeed You! Mutated Maze

Right, so I've been meaning to participate in pyweek for years now. I'll see how much I can fit in around my full time job. Assuming I still go to bed at reasonable hours (I still have to be a productive employee), and taking into account other commitments, I might have

Sun: 8hrs
Mon: 2hrs
Tues/Wed: 0 hrs
Thur: 2hrs
Fri: 2-3 hrs?
Sat: 10 hrs?
Sun: 6 hrs?

so about 31 hours.. or just over 4 workdays. I could probably get away with a few extra hours on Friday/Sat night since I won't have work the next day.

I still haven't decided if I will be using pygame or pyglet.. I'm not sure what the support for macos is for either so I might need to experiment before the competition starts.

Todo before the challenge starts:

Get pygame and pyglet running on my mac
Go through the list of suggested themes and think of some game ideas.
Attempt to write some lame games in both pygame and pyglet.
Read How to be Successful at Pyweek.

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cyhawk on 2011/09/04 12:13:

Welcome to PyWeek! And good thinking — last time I only discovered Pyglet didn't work on Snow Leopard when I started coding the game :). (Looks like the repository head works now! I had to start Python with 'arch -i368 python' to get AVbin to work as well.)

And as for me, I'll be on holidays 5 days out of the 7. We'll see how much coding I can get in between sailing and diving and partying :).

dotteri on 2011/09/04 16:22:

The last Pyglet version is the 1.1.4 and works fine in Linux Mint Katya. I have windows xp but i dont have a Mac. I hope that works fine.

bitcraft on 2011/09/04 23:39:

welcome, and good luck!

saluk on 2011/09/06 05:09:

That 10 hours on Sat looks scary. I mean, I have done 10 hr days on pyweek in the past, but I don't have great memories of the toll my body took from those days :) Sometimes doing more with less can work better. But everyone has their own process that works for them, so good luck and be sure to have fun!

sonneveld on 2011/09/10 08:19:

I may be slightly optimistic with time but there will be plenty of breaks. :)

In regards to libraries, I have pygame running on my macbook now. Pyglet sorta works but it didn't seem to want to load libavbin.dylib from the current directory.