The end is so close...

Added:

• Simple menu
• Pause
• Instruction
• Win screen
• More rooms

Well, the last 32 hours have been nuts.

After writing the preceding diary entry, I decided I'd take the next day
off work, or I'd never make it in time.

I went in to a cafe early and kept topping up on coffee while getting down
on paper literally all the dialogue for the game. It took about two hours.
I was blocked to begin with on Rapunzel's rhymes but by the end the words
seemed to arrive quite easily.

But I had made some false assumptions about how to organise the dialogue.
I had the speech separated out into themes. I thought I would change the
context at different points in the game, and all the characters would
switch in the same way to their appropriate phrases. But that was way too
complicated and required a lot greater wordage than I had time to make.

So when I got back I rejigged all that. There were also some bugs to fix,
in code I thought I could trust. So my perception of progress was never
reliable enough for me to feel confident.

The good news was that having all the words on paper made creating script
files a low-risk process. And in the background I started setting my
drum machine going, to find some beats I could use as a backing track.

By bedtime nearly all the script files were done. Sadly, I never hit on
any sounds that I felt would fit as a backing track. So it looks like
the game will have no music, which is a shame.

Still, it plays better than some of my other efforts. I've just fixed
the death screen. Python packaging is in place. A bit more dialogue
required here and there.

So I've been working tirelessly on player/wall collisions implementing keys and locked doors associated with keys and implementing how a player proceeds to the next level. There's still a lot of things that I still need to implement before I finish the project. At this point an "All nighter" or two is warranted to finish the project.

List of things i still need to implement.

Enemies

Sound/music

an actual player sprite(blue stick figure? REALLY?!)

basic combat mechanics.

art for title screen

instruction's and story

Game Over screen

and probably a few other things I may have missed.

So yeah I have a lot on my plate. And I cant waste any time doing it. If all else fails I could try and release it as is despite having unfinished content and once Pyweek finishes I'll work on the little details afterwards. I'm actually liking this current project.

EDIT: I've lost count on how many hours I've spent on this project :P

First day of working, making basic game mechanics

Day five was really hard. I spent 9 hours today.

Total:

• Added and tested new enemies
• Increased elevator speed
• Character can die with new ways.
• Added particles.
• There's no safe rooms.
• More animations (with flashlight and with no).
• Drawers now contains something you will need.
• Sometimes you have to use your real physical force to survive here. (new mechanics)
• Added simple inventory.
• I am too tired for write more info. (sorry)

Elevator isn't so safe.

Don't turn off your flashlight if you want to survive.

Got little time for this pyweek.

The project is just started.

Hopefully I can make something quick.

i think i am done with my game. It is not a very long game because I really do not know what to do for "tower" and 

I also have a lot of work to do. I might still add some stuff if it is really needed like bug fixing though...

A bit more progress. We have two players, some special blocks and a background image.

Tomorrow hopefully we'll get some of the basic game play in (i.e. one player wins when their tower gets to a certain height). After that it will be on to making a couple of the special blocks work (cannon, shield).

This has been a ton of fun so far. My son is really getting into it and it's been fun to code side by side and push/pull from github to share our work.