On the starting line

Vortex Racers

A Pyweek 5 entry by Vortex Racers (scav, Badger)

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Race clockwork vehicles around a track, avoiding the dangerous meteorological phenomenon.

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Overall: 2.7
Fun: 2.3
Production: 3.1
Innovation: 2.7

36% respondents marked the game as not working.
Respondents: 14

Files

File Uploader Date
vracers-1.0.zip
After-challenge fixed version 		scav 2007/09/23 11:11
vracers-0.6.22.zip — final
Vortex Racers (really final) 		scav 2007/09/08 21:50
vracers-shot-Fri-9.jpg
On the starting line 		scav 2007/09/07 11:56

Diary Entries

Pyweek again! Woohoo!

scav on 2007-07-20 06:58

Now I can do nothing except think of mad game ideas for the next month! Fingers crossed for a good theme...

Good luck to everyone, and hoping for a fine crop of silliness this year.

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Day 4, and a playable game

scav on 2007-09-06 22:03

Whew!

For a couple of days there, OpenGL was NOT my friend.

Now I need to do some level design and maybe add some of the stuff that I thought I would never be able to fit in (e.g. music).

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For those with low fps

scav on 2007-09-07 12:52 

python2.5 run_game.py --snow
This option turns off most of the textures, which should help out those with slow hardware.

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Done!

scav on 2007-09-08 19:23

I'm off to drink a few cans.

I could mess with it more, but it isn't going to get any better and I might break something.

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Whew!

scav on 2007-09-08 21:54

Last minute disaster recovery. I was doing something that worked by accident on my Linux machine but crashed on windows.

Thanks to Joe for his scepticism.

Oh and while walking back from his house slightly drunk, I figured out what was causing my performance problem. Back to 60fps for me!

I think the word is "woohoo". If that's a word.

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36% DNW! Aaah!

scav on 2007-09-23 00:22

Bottom half of the table. I am crushed :-)

I should be happy though, because the main reason I do pyweek is to test and debug my game graphics library. So I suppose I have some work to do...

The other comments about camera position and steering were, sadly, completely fair :-(

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