Lots happening today but a few hours were available for PyWeek. Yay! I worked on getting the structure and basic game mechanic together. The goal is achievable - I may have to finish Friday being realistic. Trying to keep the code very organised and componentised. Definitely want to add gamepad support.

The theme lends itself well to a defending type game so I combined this with the old arcade game Space Zap which is a reaction/timing game at its core. I had decided to make all GFX with primitives as my mouse is currently broken and this fits my desired look anyway. I plonked a pygame.draw.circle in the middle of the screen. Once it fired a few lasers I immediately thought..... DEATH STAR! Going to have fun with this now!

I made some good progress. I have the structure of the game layed out with source files as I usually like them. I'm using the "esper" ECS library and pyglet, so it just took a few Components and Processors to get a simple title screen up. No "game" yet to speak of at this point.

Ok, this was the theme I was least hoping for. Still, lets see what I can do...

I had a few hours to work on the design today as the start time is 7PM in my time-zone. I have most of the game planned out and a basic story structure. I’m using the Dr Strangelove movie as an overall inspiration along with the infiltration interpretation of the “you can’t let him in here” theme.

Tomorrow will be a full day so I hope to get the engine built and a first stab at a playable level.

Going for real simple game play and one button 'space bar' input. I'm playing with a wacky physics in a jump over obstacle game. The boss has given orders to not let in the hero, James Block 00L7, a square character if there ever was one.

OK, I think this time I will do sth challenge for myself. As my game name showed, I want to design two reversal world, one is normal, one is upside down. Let me do it now.

Time to think of a game.. haha.