We've spent the first day deciding what game to make and the second setting up ogre for coding. I hope we can speed up a little from now on, because I need time in the end to make a nice ragdoll :P

I haven't done much, I actually started today. I'm not sure if I'll finish. At first I wanted to use pyopengl, but it didn't like me, so I am using pygame instead. My idea right now is that the hero is some guy jumping around on some platforms (top-view) and doing something (descriptive, huh?). It might not sound like it but it will take a lot of time and work to get this working the way I want it. Not much to show yet, but if I make something worth showing I might post a screen.

Sunday: Devoid of ideas.

Monday morning: Finally, an idea I can live with ... provisionally named Twisted TV.

Monday evening: Started work on it, deciding to try out coroutines and pretending that Python has a shared-nothing, message passing architecture like Erlang. It has been a promising start - no loss of frame rate and it makes for simple logic.

I'm also rather impressed by Pyglet. It shows promise, so I'm using it instead of my usual Pygame/PyOpenGL mix.

Is it legal in this competition to use audio files in the

/pygame/Examples/data

folder for our games? (I'm releasing my game under the GPL, if that matters.)

After playing with Chipmunk/pymunk and QGL yesterday and trying to put together some base code (and figuring out what to do) we put together something more game-like today. Just take a look at the nice screenshot in the bottom of this post! Bouncing balls, red squares, a green arrow and "twisters". Sure looks like a twisted game! ;)

Today we also learned to not set the shape id in code (shape.contents.id), and certainly not set the id so several shapes shared a single one (wow, that bug took a loong time to find). Otherwise the physics seem to work ok for our needs.

btw, are we the only entry using QGL? Its a small OpenGL scenegraph found here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/QGL/9

Let's see - it's two days into PyWeek, I have worked all Monday and what do I have to show for it? A chat server and a client with a nice looking background, basically. Still, I don't think that's a particularly small feat, considering I've never done network programming in the past. I have a game concept I like very much (more on that later, let's just say it's turn based strategy), plans for both multiplayer maps and a single player tutorial, and I think I'll nail the game balance too. I hope I'll be able to implement at least the basic gameplay features by Wednesday evening, so I'll have enough time for testing it all.

Some people have warned me that it's hard to find an audience for a multiplayer-focused game in PyWeek, but I hope that at least some of you will actually play my game too. It's not that troublesome to arrange matches on IRC, and I'll be taking the simultaneous turns approach to minimize waiting time between turns. Anyway, it's already been an educational and fun experience, and I haven't even gotten to the game part yet, so hopes are high. Have fun, everyone!

Added a few levels and changed the colours. Next job is to rework some of the physics and collision detection (it doesn't like wall corners at the moment!)

Anywho, uploaded version is playable to level 4. You can use the left and right keys to twist the arrows. Get the black and white disk to the red and black one. Have fun!

More later...

So. Second day finished. "Twisted" theme was exactly what we expected. We decided to use Python-OGRE. But this package not so easy to use. Besides I newer use OGRE or Python-OGRE. However we've done a lot stuff today. Tomorrow we must work harder.

So pyogre i think is a little less easy to use than the c++ version - debugging being the main problem and my lack of python knowledge being the other.

So far I have a basic image of what i want - consisting of a hacked together heightmap in ogre and a seperate app with the maze generation. Im just trying to find a way now to generate a hightmap within ogre. Im going to first try to give ogre the data directly (would be nicest) and if that doesnt work ill just create a heightmap and save it to disk (and get ogre to load it for me)

Based on feedback, I tried adding brass rings to the pipes where you could twist them:

I kinda like the way it looks - I'm going to see how it feels over time, though.