Quick Sketches --

Have made suitably beatiful steam, but no ideas for a game...

Here's some sketches we've made for game concepts. Still no code done yet.
galaxy view.

As with last year, I'm putting diary entries over here:
http://www.emhsoft.net/pyweek2/
(Oddly, links don't appear to be working over here.)

Excellent, the fun begins. I have just put together some barebones music tracks for my game... light stuff in the realm of simcity type background music. I need to get pygame running on my home linux box here (I just can't get myself to program for a long period of time on my mac mini.. vim just doesn't feel the same.. so sluggish).

I intend to make a very simple little 2d game, where the focus is on a neat idea that, albeit ambitious, I hope I can make intuitive and fun. We will see!

I know there was a countdown at the top of the competition page, but I'd never really looked at it properly, so found myself rather surprised things had kicked off an hour ago instead of the same time tomorrow night. Also just been reminded that we in the UK are losing an hour's sleep this evening. Things have not started well! Even though I'd placed "It Runs On Steam!" quite highly in voting terms, right now, it's probably the theme which I have the least developed idea for, and is also the one which will require the most work in terms of art, which is probably my weakest area. Gonna stay up for a couple of hours now and try to come up with some better ideas.

Ah, sorry, looks like not this time... :( How to deactivate my entry?

I confess I have ulterior motives. Therefore quite a few parameters of my game are already determined.

My entry will be a 2D action sidescroller, with a female hero who kills everything that moves. She'll have a variety of attacks depending on input combinations. I'll do all the artwork myself; I imagine the terrain would be kind of like Sonic the Hedgehog (though certainly not as pretty). The enemies will be pretty stupid and typical. Levels will be stored as XML. It'll use PyGame, and, despite being 2D, OpenGL, with the expectation of hardware acceleration.

I am planning to write an automatic terrain generator; hopefully this will give the game a lot of breadth in a short time period. The actual sort of terrain it'll generate will depend on the theme. For example, if the theme is "doorways" it'll probably generate a maze with lots of doorways.

My plan, roughly in order:

1. A little preliminary artwork: heroine, some enemies, some terrain.
2. Write the game engine. (I expect this to be the easiest step.)
3. More complete artwork.
4. Write the terrain generator, and tweak parameters until I get the scene generation I want.
5. Integrate levels and some simple segways
6. Polish things up
7. If there's time: add more attacks more levels, sound effects.

Good luck to everybody!

I used this website:
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

To discover:
00:00:00 Sunday March 26, 2006 in GMT converts to
17:00:00 Saturday March 25, 2006 in Canada/Mountain

I figure other people might find this useful. Plus, by posting it here I'm sure someone will tell me if I am somehow confused by the start time.

i had this idia for qute some time... it would be cool to try to make an mmorts in 7 days!