The dead line coming close.. ive' some how managed to complete all of the important aspects of the game.. now i guess i have to do some rigarous testing.. here is the link to source code of the game Here. I'll put up the py2exe version soon...

Our game is now ready for testing.

Windows download

It's a turn based strategy game. You control a steam-powered mech, with the goal of eliminating thy enemies by "letting off steam" in insult-battles.

Give it a try :)

My game now has a name - "20,000 Light Years Into Space". There's a new screenshot showing an alien attack.

I'm almost ready to release an alpha version of the game, which does need a bit of testing! Just a few more things to do...

py2exe is the thing that I'm not looking forward to. I played with it a bit last night, and got really frustrated when it didn't do what I wanted immediately. Probably just me being thick, thoguh.

As it's now obvious I won't be finishing my entry in time I'll tell you about my idea and how cool this PyWeek has been for me ;).

As soon as I saw the theme "It runs on steam!" I immediately thought of "It Came from Outer Space" :). So my idea was to make a game where the character ("It", the FSM-like creature from the movie) runs on steam! The downside of this idea was that it didn't describe the game mechanics at all so I didn't have a plan when I started coding. I only knew it would be isometric so that I would learn something new (ended up using OpenGL with orthographic projection which worked out just fine). I was forced by the theme :).

I really did learn a lot during this Pyweek which is exactly what I wanted. It acts as a motivator for me to get coding. I didn't aim at getting the game done really. I think I'll join a team next time...

Lots of work done today but not so much to show for it. Most of it was spent rearranging code, refactoring and optimising. Moving the collision, response, game-logic and drawing code all into separate components not only saves my sanity, it boosts framerate from 10fps to around 20 for a typical scenario.

A more robust user interface is in place now, so selecting a tool, dragging & rotating it and having all the collision models update is working pretty solidly. Getting the rest of the tools in should be a snap. The screenshot here shows the level editor (the blue collision boundaries are editable).

Also in the screenshot is a flower, somewhat droopy.. indicating it's not receiving quite enough water.

Still a mammoth amount of work to be done.. hopefully a tad under 24 hours' worth :-)

As with our previous Pyweek entry the real work starts the Friday night after work. I forsee no sleep in the next 48hrs =(

Anyway, since we havent been posting much WIP yet of in-game gameplay we've put together a screenshot so far of a typical senario from within Corsair. Please ignore the character at the bottom of the window, it's merely a placeholder while TheDon illustrates the 4 main races of alien in the universe.

So far we've got intro down 100%. User interface, backend server, chat and database almost ready. Just putting the sytem through a few possible gameplay scenarios. We've definately got our work cut out for us.

Without further adieu, here's the first gameplay screenshot of our project 'Corsair'. We hope you enjoy!

Had a good handul of relatively easy, but important things to do on the game last night, to bring it up to a level ready for people to have a proper play with, and instead I spent until 5am messing about with unimportant things, pretty much all of which won't be used in the game at all. I still hope to get things finished off by midnight tomorrow, but there's probably going to be none of the extra eyecandy I wanted and playtesting will probably just be a solo effort. The artwork is now likely to be pretty much just a redrawing of my (borrowed) placeholders, and I can only hope inspiration strikes quickly when I sit down to write the music.

My initial idea is to make a graphic adventure engine, so that sceneries and non interactive sequences can be made from little scripts. I think the result is good, but, due to time, i can't create a complete graphic adventure. Well, this is obvious :), but i've made only one scenery and one small non interactive sequence, so i don't know if it's worth the trouble to upload that sort of incompletion.

I got rather discouraged and almost quit today, but Treeform gave me a bit of help and support. Aside from horrid code and lack of lots of classes, I'm not as far away from being done as I thought.

So, here's my todo list:

• Enemy fire
• Steam power ups
• high scores?

So, hopefully you'll see a more-or-less finished game up here soon! :-D