That's it... I'm not motivated enough to continue working on the game, somehow I disappointed myself not being able to make a fun, pretty and on theme game

So, after all the code (not that much, anyway) I've done, I still have nothing to show you.

I hope I learnt how NOT to make a game for the next PyWeek.

Well finally a screenshot.

As one might guess, I'm not going for the presentation prize in this compo. :)

Ive' sucessfully completed making the basic structure of the game. You can move around, setup traps for trapping the cops.. cut wood. Actually ive' been spending a lot of time on modeling and stuff. Could not get good texture for grass. You can Download the latest version of source code at day5_WoodCutter.zip

Latest Screen shot

main.py

KEYBOARD: arrows or wasd - to move. F10 pause. f/space/ctrl to fire.
MOUSE:    button one move.  button two fire.
JOYSTICK: game pad move.  button 1 fire.

                                 We love you.
                                         
                   Thank you for downloading.
                                         
       ' '  .       Thank you for installing.
        .' '                             
         !"'          Thank you for clicking.
         '                               
          `'           Thank you for loading.
           \                            
          _()()__      Thank you for playing.
         |       |                           
         |       |     Thank you for quiting.    
        //\_____/\\                          
       // \    /  \\  Thank you uninstalling.
       || |    |  ||
      //       |    \ Thank you for deleting.


Sanity is as overrated as a nuclear bomb.

I'm into polish mode now. Stuff like maybe more levels, some sound, maybe some music. Maybe more ways of the Colossus fighting back if I can think of them (had ideas about little robot-helicopters that had finite steam supplies).

Art-wise I need to draw some pipes running from the boilers to the Colossus. There should be other random pipes too. Also, the boilers need better damage states, and the fires need to flicker.

It's playable - download it :)

Latest Snapshot:
http://www.wardtek.ca/steamrollers-day5.zip
mac dmg

Well, today didn't seem overly productive but I guess it didn't go too bad. Erik perfected py2exe. I perfected py2app. So we now have a system to distribute our code out to people without python and it seems to go alright. A lot of people who've been helping us with assets were able to see the game for the first time and fell in love, so hopefully more motivational for them.

Code wise, I got basic gameplay down. Laps are now timed and you finish a race after 3 laps, though that currently doesn't show anywhere but the command line. Erik's been cleaning up and ripping out and redoing a bunch of our physics to be more better than before. Double plus better! I put in a simple particle effect engine. It's much better now that it doesn't leak cows.

It just hit us today that there's really only 3 days left and it suddenly doesn't seem like enough time to get everything done. Should motivate us to work faster, but we'll see how it goes.

Most everything still dosen't work.

Accomplished:

• More fluid movement
• Thingie that keeps the ship inside bounds. (Actually, it seems to prevent the ship fro going more then 16 pixels away from the window. Why? No clue.)
• 100% gfx
• 100% sounds
• A steam counter. That counts down. Should be cake to link ship movement to it.
• Score counter works. Just need items to score off of.
• Partial routines for aliens
• A GameOver() function that dosen't work.

  The 0.2 build lets you play with the steam counter by using the 1 and 2 keys.

  Any and all suggestions or patches are welcome!

I was waylaid this morning unfortunately, so I again didn't get as much finished as I had wanted. But luckily there was a post on the Mailing List about changing the alpha values using surfarray which was exactly what i was looking for. As an extra treat, I've uploaded a tar.gz with my current revision of the code.

More than half of the week is gone with barely any work on our part (due to numerous other obligations), and the rest of the week isn't looking good. Either way, I got a little work in tonight, and the game interface is sort of implemented. As usual, make a three letter shape on the keyboard and the squares form that shape, but now it's rather smooth :) Also, click somewhere and the shape moves there. So... yeah, nothing great at all.

POC1.zip

A screenshot, showing some of the textures that I've added to the game (game overview).

New todo list:

• Storm season
• Panel textures
• Sound effects
• Scoring and summary screen
• Heaps of playtesting

Bedtime now... :(