Day 1:

• Watched Venture Bros. Season 1 while making out

Day 2:

• planned out some sweet stuff on paper
• started out with pygame + hand-rolled physics
• made some programmer art:

   

• pygame is dumb and slow. switched to pyglet

• hand-rolled physics too time consuming. switched to pymunk
• Sneak Preview on YouTube
  

Day 3:

• Try to convince my room mate to make art for me
• Full time job
• Ability to swing around on a rope like spider man
• Ability to re-arrange atoms with your gun thing

So this morning I had the revelation that not only is it unnecessary to consider aesthetics at this stage, my game won't even fundamentally require a GUI. I can implement all the logic and playtest the game just using a text display. Prototyping couldn't get any easier.

I promptly wasted the rest of the day on other things, few of them productive. Hey, it's the weekend.

In the evening I buckled down and got some basics in place, though - creating an object hierarchy for fields, slots and parts, as well as reading the part data out of a CSV file and allowing machines to be built from them. None of the actual game is there yet, but this gets some of the dull coding over with. Tomorrow I will have to get more done, but after Ludum Dare, I'm not really feeling the time pressure.

Since I'll try to post a screenshot daily, behold this unimpressive one:

I am new to programming. This is my first pyweek entry and my first time writing a game.

Code
You can download and track my progress here:  https://github.com/illy0311/Udacitris 

(I am learning to use GitHub, IRC, BitBucket and the Python shell among others.)

Summary
The game is called Udacitris, which is made of the words Udacious + Tetris, paying respect to Udacity where I learned the very basics of Python.

The game is a Tetris clone where I plan to place a picture of a Scientist on each block of Tetris.

I am using pygame and the source code for Tetris from Invent with Python: http://inventwithpython.com/pygame/chapters/

My current agenda:

Block formation
- add image of (Mad) Scientist

Level up
- add badge which is the image of a (Mad) Scientist

Overall goal
- my goal in participating in pyweek is to learn python better 
- gain familiarity with development tools, community, and best practices
- learn something about gaming
- play a lot of Tetris

So far so good.
Got some good art and code.
Soon I will take over the world! mwa ha ha ha.

Well, at the end of day 2 for me, I have a player and a ball in 2.5d, and the player can catch the ball. Tomorrow I will get baskets, more players, passing and shooting done. I hope.

Today's goals:
- import a working python Tetris code that runs

Tomorrow's goals:
- add faces to each building block (static)

I'm working on a game called Mechanism. The player is cast in the role of a technician employed by FringeTech Laboratories. A new Telepresence Cybernetic Mechanism is about to be put through its paces in FringeTech's elaborate testing environment, but what starts as another routine day of guiding the TCM through a series of challenges begins to go horribly wrong...

After a day of coding, I have enough of the level editor working to create a simple test level.

Finally had time to think about and decide on a project idea. Started programming the base classes and planning the rest of the project.

Second conference today. Talked about the game more in depth and got a little code/art going. Once again fapping was a large conversation topic. 

Our dev meeting turned into crazy art party! We made some concept arts. Here they are...

the only thing we are sure now:

 
face it!

 
really recurring character:


promised candies:
 







just because dual wield is not enough: