How to build a 3D model quickly :

So, it started and only by chance I actually remembered :p

Whatever I make will be rubbish. I use PHP a lot to make websites, but I don't use Python all that much. The sort of things needed to make websites is very different to making a game, so that'll help things ;) Also, I can't draw and I'm really busy. So if you'd just like to give me the lowest possible score, that'll be fine by me.

I've a few ideas for games. I see the theme is "6", and I'm hoping there isn't anything more to it than the number. I'm not really into modern pop culture so I hope it's not relating to to a film or telly program that I am oblivious to.

Both members of our team love words, writing and telling stories with text. That's how we came up with the idea for our game... an old school MUD/MOO-ish platform but reimagined for today.

We're going to call this platform "TextSmith" because we're forging, beating out and carefully crafting new interactive text based worlds with creative heat and imaginative fire. We hope it plays to our strengths..!

Our server will be a Python/asyncio application with perhaps a Redis data store, probably running somewhere like Heroku (which seems to be the simplest / cheapest [free] option at the moment). We'll use websockets and some static HTML/CSS/JS to provide a user friendly browser based client.

Our intention is to make the world "programmable", so players are able to help build the game themselves and take ownership of the world they imagine and inhabit.

As for the theme, I (Nicholas) wonder about initially creating six distinct literary worlds within the game (e.g. Jane Austen, SciFi, Tolkien etc...). Players build and interact within each world in the literary style of that world. In each 24 hour period a player has some arbitrary number of points to give away to other players as rewards for building or interacting in particularly appropriate, entertaining or otherwise epic ways. Perhaps the more points you get, the more stuff you can build, or you level up to new abilities..? I'm not sure how this may work, and I'm waiting on feedback from my team mate, Andrew (this time we're only 7 hours away in terms of time zone). So this idea may change or become something completely different.

The first task (probably tomorrow) will be to get a simple websocket app running so we can check the client works properly, after which we'll be in full-on platform building with a view to world / game building with the help of anyone else who cares to join in towards the end of the week.

Let the fun begin..!

(first attempt to deliver a PyWeek game...)

Ok, that's NOT the theme I was expecting.

Then I sought deeper, and looked into the Amstrad CPC collection (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=database) but the only title you can find are actual compilation of ... six games.

So...

the game will be an hidden-object "adventure" game, probably with a single location.

You have 6 items to find, hidden among many things, and it tells you the story of a small town in the Ohio, in the middle of the WW II.

My plan is to get the game mechanic working as soon as possible (tonight, possibly)

This is all I have so far; hopefully this will clarify what I'm going for with this (for anyone who'se interested)

RPG battle system
Dungeon crawling that leads to the RPG battles
Space travel simulator that leads to the dungeon crawling
Spaceship management game that underlies the space travel
Relationship/management simulator /w crew that underlines the spaceship management
Space combat simulator that the space travel leads in to

So - six games deep, playing with six characters.

Thoughts:

    RPG battle system:
        100% text based
        Largeish variety of enemies
        Largely inventory item based; it's sort of like playing Slay the Spire
        Or, make it XCOMlike?
        Yeah, I like xcomlike better
        Still can't draw it; could do ASCII-style
       
    Dungeon crawling:
        Maybe bring in that 5D stuff?
        See enemies coming, look like Pathways Into Darkness maybe?
            No, I can't draw that. Will have to be extremely basic because
            of unavailability of art.
        Theme it as space stations and ship salvage?
        Theme battles too, then?
        Given the change from RPG battles to tactical battle, maybe should be
        a boarding mechanic for the ship fights
        Boarding in ship fights, and salvaging after ship fights and random encounters
        If I get enough time, add narrative missions on stations/planets
       
    Spaceship travel:
        TEOS clone
        Fly to stations, buy and sell things, try to identify good trade routes,
        randomly get in to fights or discover abandoned stations
        Can buy systems and parts and fuel for the spaceship management
        Realistic economy, where NPC ships also discover trade routes and opportunities
        get saturated/fixed if you don't jump on them?
   
    Spaceship management:
        Ship is made of systems, parts randomly break down or are broken by fighting
        Can be fixed by crew or replaced by spares
        Oregon Trail like
        Random events with consequences for crew and resources?
        Also need to make sure you have enough food and fuel
       
    Crew management:
        Not sure what to do with this.
        Crew are involved in other systems (every other system?), they are the PCs in the tactical fight,
        provide solutions for problems in spaceship management
        Interact with NPCs through spaceship travel game?
       
    Space combat:
        Real time with pausing, like FTL
        Ties in to the spaceship management game, systems give your ship the ability
        to do things (weapons attack, shields prevent damage, armor absorbs damage, etc.)
        See ships on a screen flying around each other, some systems & accuracy of shots
        depends on relative position, can right click to pause (or slow?) game and bring
        up list of actions that can be taken; can right click on position and move there,
       
       

Today was a pretty rough start, not going to lie.

I didn't think 6 was going to be picked (I thought it was a little to vague), so I didn't brainstorm as many ideas for it beforehand. I was a little frustrated as usually I know what I'm going to build before the competition starts because I already have a couple of ideas in place. Since I didn't have as many for 6, I was a little bit disappointed with the few things I was able to think of.

I decided to go with a simple mini game where you have only 6 moves to complete a 6x6 level, where you have to find the right path that uses 6 or less moves to get out of the level. There are different obstacles and objects, such as walls, doors (which can be unlocked by keys), and portals.

Here's a small screenshot of what I have so far (no fancy graphics yet):

I have a pretty early start tomorrow, so I'm going to go to bed.

So my preparation for this event has been somewhat lax.  Basically none at all.  I correctly guessed the theme ("6"), but had no ideas to support it.  I had something for Ripples, Fold and even The Barber of Seville (an incremental barbershop empire game) but nothing for six.  So I took the dogs for a walk.

I played around with a western "6-Shooter" idea and several abstract hexagonal tile ideas but nothing stuck.  Then I came up with an idea for a simulation game.  I'll have to mull this one over to see how I can make it, you know, fun.