• got some neat sounds set up
• health bar
• player pictures (took most of the day)
• map
• movement
• gun sound effects system
• dealt with skipped mouse events (sort of)

• AI and enemies
• Item drop
• fix skipped mouse event bug
• snow!
• REAL BULLETS

Also, I realize that I'm about a 1/3 done with the game.. with about 5 days left.. I don't know if that's a good thing or not; it could be that I had chosen a very simple idea, but it gives me extra time to polish the horrible graphics :).

grr.. I've been wasting time doing other things.
I've just rewritten the gun sound system.. that's only for the handgun.
I'll have to do it for the AK-47.
I guess I'll add some snow and post a screenshot.

• AI and enemies
• Item drop
• fix skipped mouse event bug
• snow!
• REAL BULLETS

Looks like I got a lot accomplished today...

I'll do the enemy units and their AI tomorrow, along with items, and better pics :D

Just a random thought while I was programming: Hopefully pyweek.org will not be slashdotted any time soon, or else this competition would be ruined due to the Slashdot Effect- pyweek would most likely be knocked offline by all those visits for about a day; if pyweek is slashdotted on the last day, no one would be able to upload their submissions :-(

About two days ago, I had these two goals.. I don't think I could meet them now...
# AI and enemies
# Item drop
The reason is this: when I added in the Item Drop feature, I realized that the game's fps rate fell below 10fps. The result was a choppy mess. Currently I'm using a simple loop - handle input, do logic calculations, draw, and cleanup. Apparently the logic portion is taking up too much time. If anyone has suggestions for optimizations or a better method altogether, please comment...

Well, I discovered that a major part of the problem was due to looping through the # of bullets and blitting them every loop. This resulted in a drop of 7fps. I'll go fix it by having it draw when truly necessary, and hopefully it will up the fps to 33fps.

With this in mind, I don't think I can finish adding enemies or items. I guess I'll have to cut my losses and stick with what I have... climbing a glacier and shooting at icy boulders falling down ;-).

My development is being interrupted by life and I won't have enough time to add extra features in during the next two days. I'll just make a very cool menu with a fancy ui, tweak the graphics, and do other small optimizations. The game is highly configurable at this point, and I think this will contribute to its fun factor :-)

Well, I've got only a few hours left to work on the game. And I've decided to make an impressive looking menu and opening screen, which will hopefully give a good first impression...

Well, I've learned a lot.

• Do not become distracted
• Do not add features at the last minute
• organize priorities!
• Don't do artwork for a feature you will not end up doing...
• always have a backup idea, something the game can be easily molded into, in the case time runs out...
• Don't let life get in the way of pyweek development! :P
• learned more about linux and python, via working with the hacked up python and pygame...
• and much more...

• mtPaint
• Xpaint
• nedit
• Geany

• custom python2.4 minimal distribution
• hacked up 1.7.1 pygame

Well that's all I have to say tonight. Time to get onto other things ;)