I've set up the traditional pre-challenge poll on system capabilities to see where people are at in terms of the hardware and software platforms they'll be running.

Me, I recently had a hardware failure, so I bought a whole new machine (parts of the prior one were 5 years old) thus bringing myself into the age of PCI Express, SATA-II and 64-bit CPUs.

You'd have to work hard to make a Python game that ran slow on this hardware :)

Hi I'm eugene am new to just about everything. I only just started learning python and I've never made much of any games. As a result I'm gonna do something crazy: No sprites, No sounds, No fonts.

This way I can focus everything on learning and coding instead of trying to get the right sounds and pictures and getting ttf loading to work for me. If I have time at the end of making my dismally simple game I might add sound effects.

Team Trailblazer is back, sadly without Michal this time though :-/

I'm pretty stoked about this contest. The entries from PyWeek 1 looked really great, so I'm excited to see what I can come up with some tough competition.

Since I'm a solo entry, I think I'm going to try something that is conceptually interesting with only the simplest use of eye candy. I'll probably use Soya as my main library, since it integrates with Blender pretty well and has been used by me on other projects. That should keep the visual efforts simple and well within my abilities and schedule.

I'm a big fan of AI and ALife, so expect something odd and behavioral to come from me. I'm also interested in auto-generated environments, never-ending stories, open worlds, etc., so I probably won't do anything that will require a level designer. But, hey, who knows?

...but we're no professionals ;) In past competitions hosted by Richard, such as the Ludum Dare (we didn't make it to the last pyweek), we've relied on simplicity and 2D graphics. Unfortunately the only product of this team('s primary member, since it was in the LD48) was a horrible game called Misgnomer.

Regardless, we are likely to have a lot of fun in the process. Our current members are:

• Mac, who specializes in graphics (PSP 8, Animation Shop 3, Maxon Cinema 4D), and...
• dbickett, the pythonista.

Naturally, we'll be using Pygame, but we don't know how to use PyOpenGL, so we'll be leaving that alone.
For sound we'll be using Audacity, and a very cheap microphone.
For data storage and retrieval we'll be using a combination of ElementTree and my xmlValue modules, which I will release here as soon as I can salvage my old hard drive.

So, for now, that's all the introductory comments I can think to put here (it seems we're the first to go into detail).

Hello all, good luck, looking forward to the themes :)

Hi all, Trying to gather some of the people from OpenRTS to participate in PyWeek2. This will be fun :)

TeamXerian is back again.

Hey.. what happened to the site?? shows' that the challenge starts in 700+ days...