Since there are so many issue with the games I'm going to try and keep a list of all the programs that worked for me including the ones that needed changed or run from the command line or if I was just missing a library.

Since I'll need to update it I'm going to host it on my site. You can see it here.

* Rune drawing behaves strange on my computer when running in fullscreen
* While intermission texts are floating through the screen, mouse is sometimes stuck in rune drawing mode.

If you encounter any of these problems, please switch to windowed mode with the -w switch, and also tell us please, so we could fix it. Thanks!

There is one bug left in the game that I know about, if you are playing a level where the nourish spell costs less than any plants, and either you or the enemy cant buy anymore plants, and have none growing, the enemy will stop moving, and you will have to restart the level.

there is a 1-2 line fix for this:

go to lib/modules and open "elements.py", go to lines 148 and 149, they should like this:
l=[self.plot_cost, self.nourish_cost,
self.locust_cost, self.lightning_bolt_cost]

change that to l=[ ]

That should fix the problem :D

also if a level crashes, there is a file in lib/levels called "HOW TO MAKE A LEVEL.txt"
if you follow its instructions it should lead you to a fix for a level ;)

Apparently our game Bubble Kong crashes eventually if you start it with run_game.pyw, because the game prints out debug messages that we didn't have time to remove before the challenge deadline.
Please start the game with run_game.py instead.

The following games work just fine for me without having to use the command line. I click on the run_game.py and choose run with python and these games just work.

Focus your effort on them.

1. abg2-rotb
2. BaloonEscape
3. Cent_of_fb
4. DashmanDX
5. familyguys
6. freakk
7. f-m
8. Gang_of_6
9. gin_n_phytonic
10. GOD
11. greg_pw4
12. Hectic
13. jwhitlark
14. LastMinute
15. mmorts
16. PrintStarIII
17. pycor 2
18. Pytower
19. pywiii
20. selsine_2_0
21. Tee-py4
22. thecode
23. toba4
24. vi
25. Zankar2

It was a great pyweek. :)

Thanks to Richard for allowing this competition to exist. I noticed this pyweek there are many very good entries, I'm really looking forward to play them all.

Friday, I was desperate, but yesterday was more productive than I thought. I managed to add some gameplay and finished about an hour and something before the deadline, and I'm quite happy with the result considering the situation Friday. Unfortunately I wasn't able to test it very well, so you'll probably find bugs and gameplay unbalance.

I originally intended it to have pixel isometric art with drawings of offices and such, but that started to take a lot of time. So, when I was drawing, I turned on the grid to help me draw, then I realized the grid could be an interesting background. Then I started messing around and the idea of a blueprint came up. That had solved a lot of problems, and I did the graphics very fast and, while not as good looking as pixel art, it still has some style.

I haven't tested enough to the (winning) end game. Technically, you can win, so if anyone wins, let me know. :)

I'm just a bit frustrated that after the competition I saw there was a game that looked very much like mine (on one of my first posts I said there was one similar, but I was talking about the career one, which doesn't look so much like mine as this other one), but, then again, there were a lot of entries, so it was hard to make something original. There are a lot of balloon games. :P

Anyway, congratulations to those who finished. I really learned a lot on this pyweek. :) I'm downloading the games through the torrent.

On to pyweek 5.

This is the menu screen for my game. The three shapes up top are my score. The highest I've gotten is 324.
On the screen it looks like I got 279.

The Windows installer is not the latest version. So if you want music and the latest fixes be sure to use the sources.

Well, the final, final submission went in about 2 hours before the challenge finished. I then tried to build an exe with py2exe but ran into numerous problems (I couldn't get it to bundle PyOpenGL no matter what I did). The Skellington will definitely be fixed in a couple of ways to work with py2exe next time.

Unfortunately the ground collision detection is still a little dodgy so people are running through the ground :(

There's also some issues with people not being able to run the game. I'd ask those people to make sure their video card drivers are up to date. If you've still got problems, please state the Operating System and video card you're using.

I'm stoked by the response to this challenge. 102 entries were signed up by the end, and over 50 put in final submissions!

Hey,

It was a great pyweek!

My team is likely to do some updates in the future, and we'll be hosting those on my website. In the meantime - check out that link for more Bubble Kong screenshots!

Have fun judging!