I had a problem with lag in sound effects from pygame (on ubuntu).

The solution is:
 apt-get remove pulseaudio
 apt-get install esound

Well, I think this is my third day of work in the competition. As in the previous 2 compos, I do not have a great idea for the game, however I'll keep going in order to try to finish a PyWeek game for my very first time. I'm trying to develop a 2D game, (looking like a RPG one), in which you have to infiltrate some kind of enemy headquarters in order to rescue your mates, who were caught by hostile troops, and to escape alive from your enemy base. I know, the idea sucks, and isn't original nor creative; Anyways, I'm having a fun time while trying to finish this game. Here's a screenshot attached. Right now the terrain is an example map from Tiled Map Editor, and the sprites are from a free collection available on the Web. I hope I can create some graphics myself before the PyWeek 11 deadline. At the moment I've implemented the camera handling (scrolling and zoom), the main character movement, I'm randomly placing some objects on the scenario (like houses and soldiers), and finally the enemy soldiers can patrol between two points.

I've got to a good stage where now i can concentrate on the level creation. There is still a little tweaking to be done.. Kinda happy with the progress so far. Check out the Screens and Playable demo

Didn't get as much as I should have done today but I fixed a bunch of bugs in my physics, got orbits showing up and the screenshot. I've also made a crappy little spacecraft image. Next I need to get the craft on the screen and an arrow for the velocity and get those changing on variable change. I'm also thinking about switching the direction vector to just an angle of rotation. I also need to finish the rest of the dialogs and add pop-ups if you're going to crash or explode. Title screen might be good too, some more graphics, sound effect and music...Maybe have to skip one or two of those. Oh well. I want to finish on friday so I can just test on saturday as I'll have access to other OS's but not a lot of time for development.
Screenshot!

Game works. Now I need to create more levels. Also all proportions of elements must be changed. But game logic works!!! It is really crappy game, but I don't care -- I MADE IT MYSELF. Yay!

Disaster struck this morning when one of our team members was laid low with the Lurgi. Despite this, we made some solid progress during the day (mostly in compiling! time) and in the evening.

We now have inventory items that can interact with each other, build/package scripts for most platforms, an assortment of debugging tools, better sound handling and a laser welder in the machine room.

The bulk of the remaining work is in the content -- plot, art, hooking items and interactions up to each other. We're in a pretty good position, but it'll be a bit tight getting everything finished on time. We'll probably have to leave out most of the "optional extras" we've been saving for slack time.

And on that note, I'm going to get a few hours of shut-eye before trudging over to the day-job code mines tomorrow. Happy pyweeking. all. Cheerio.

Another productive day!
I finished all levels, including a boss fight. I also worked on the GUI, added more sound effects, improved the controls and did a whole lot of balancing. 
The game now takes about 30 minutes to finish, which I'm a bit concerned about. At first I though a good amount would be 10 - 15 minutes because I didn't think the gameplay would hold up for any longer, and I'm still not sure it does. I'm getting very tired of it, but then I've played it for serveral hours by now.

Tomorrow I should add music, an intro screen, a death screen and some kind of ending. I will of course also do a bunch of playtesting and balancing. I would also like to try it out on some other computers, the rules says the game has to work with the latest versions of everything, but's written in Python 2.6, hopefully it will just work in a later version, but I have no idea really.

Just uploaded a playable but unpolished mousetrap.zip

http://bitbucket.org/petraszd/pyweek-11

graphics and graphics-related code made today. see screenshot