Core game play down and Beta released! Download the source for python 2.
Dependencies:
pygame

How to play:

After the game loads, press enter to start.

Choose what meal you would like to serve. Meals are the top row or either: Burgers, sodas, or fries.
For serving burgers:
1. Click on the Burger tab.
2. Click on the toppings your burger requires.
3. Click on the customer. If the burgers match, you score and continue.
For serving soda:
1. Click on the soda tab.
2. Click on the color of the soda you are serving.
3. Click on the person you are giving the soda.
For serving fries:
1. Click on the fries tab.
2. Click on the size of the fries.
3. Click on the person you are giving the fries.

If you have any ideas for the final, please share.

I've managed to get most of my ideas in already! I still haven't created the levels, of course, but I'll start on that as soon as I finish implementing all of my ideas.

Yay, added an enemy. Well, not really. For now it's just an animated sprite.

Didn't have much time and motivation today to work on the game. I hope I can catch up tomorrow.

Since the AI is working on a basic level, I decided to make the game actually a game, rather than just some sort of free-form piloting toy. It's approximately the game I was going for now. Each team starts with 10 ships, and gains two ships each time it loses. So in the final round, the winning team has to beat 18 ships with 10. Given how hard I'm finding it to win, I might soften this to one ship per loss.

The meter I decided to use is this one, which works perfectly. Additionally, I added explosions (this explosion graphic and one of these explosion sounds). It looks and sounds fantastic!

For now, when the game ends, the music slowly fades out.

So, I eventually had my idea on Monday evening.
It's gonna be a minimalistic versus fighting game.
In one dojo, with one life, so one hit causes one win.
The gameplay is based on the fact that you can grab the walls and ceiling of the room to jump on your opponent.

After a few hours of work, I now have:

• 1 dojo
• 2 players
• keyboard support
• controller support
• gravity and wall collision

I also wrote a view that separate the raw screen from the actual screen. This allows easy window size management and nice pixel art rendering.

Now, the urgent todo-list before submission:

• handle characters collision.
• figure out a nice intuitive way of controlling the character moves.
• manage characters animations
• display score
• compatibility and packaging

It'll be quite a challenge to submit it on time !

In the two previous days, we have made a lot of progress in the code. We now have animation, event planification and a day/night cycle. I had to work a lot on the assets, which takes some time because I'm a beginner in pixel art. I had some trouble to create the, though very minimalistic, animation of the character. But the room is filling up, little by little.

A lot of work done today:

• FXAA
• Lens Flare
• Bloom
• Screen Space Local Reflections
• Collision detection and movement
• Move animations
• Camera control

I did spend half of the day trying to code the moves with numbered tiles but it all fell apart once you move on the celling and then walk down a wall that you didn't use to get on the celling in the first place. I gave up on that, deleted my 64 case 'if-elif-else' chain and done the game logic/navigation with good old collision detection.

Thing are starting to look good :)

The AI of Pacewar is going to consist of two basic behaviors: aggression, and self-preservation. I have implemented the latter behavior first. The result is something of an uncontrolled bloodbath.

The aggression behavior is rather simple: every few seconds or so, the closest enemy ship is chosen as the target to attack, and as long as there are no current threats (a threat will be defined later as either a bullet nearby or an enemy ship pointing at it), the default behavior is to thrust towards the target and shoot when in range.

Next up is the self-preservation behavior, which should give the AI the nuance it needs to be an actual threat.

I'm super nervous... I have all this stuff I want to get into my game, but I have no idea if I have enough time. I just have to force myself to get the main stuff done and then get the other stuff in afterwards, but I worry I'll lose interest in adding the other stuff if I focus on the important stuff for too long...I work best under pressure, after all. I've already written all of my ideas down, but it's 4:30 AM right now and I can't get myself to sleep despite my exhaustion. I guess I'll watch some Avatar: The Last Airbender to ease my mind before trying to get more sleep again.

I want to say it again, since it's been on my mind this whole time - I am pouring so much into this in so little time. The amount of character that this project shows is enough that I'd be emotionally shattered if no one noticed the amount of effort I've put into this. I know I shouldn't get my hopes too high, but I've got a good feeling I'm going to win this thing...

I'm going to be VERY disappointed if I didn't at least get a mention or something :P This is some of the best stuff I've done in a while, and it's all really simple but really tight and REALLY fun :D