Here are some theme combinations so can have all your bases covered. :)

Twinkle + Turmoil: Brownouts
Turmoil + Ticking: Bombs
Ticking + Twisted: Egg timers
Twisted + Tyger : 4 horsemen: The Game
Tyger + Twinkle: I dunno. Something with very short and brutal lives.

Twinkle + Turmoil + Ticking + Tyger + Twinkle: You are trying to set a world in turmoil by causing it's sun to run out of time.

your team?(if you have a team ;) )
Just wondering what the average is, and who I should watch out for :P

I had thought my team (6 members) was getting up there, but then treeform came and swept me away, with double the members!

Inspired by simonar's post "music tools for the inept?", I'd like to make a small poll. What tools do you use for pyweek? In my case, I use mostly emacs and gimp.

I'd also like to ask, how do you make your graphics? Do you draw on paper first, then scan it? Do you draw it directly on a program? Do you use other images as base? Do you have any interesting tricks? Etc.

does anyone have any suggestions for music creation software for someone with very little musical ability? it doesn't have to produce symphonies, but lack of sound was a big weakness for me last year that i'd like to work on.

On here that would like to join a team?
Anyone is welcome, even learners(programming, artwork, sound, music, etc.), but we especially need some musicians/sfx people.

Currently we have 1 programmer(maybe some help from the other members),
3 artists, and 1 game designer.

None of us are very skilled musicians, though I have played with musagi and Audacity a bit, but not enough to really be able to make music in a week, not to mention programming ;).
I do have some more experience with sfx, but not recently, and I'd rather focus on programming this time.

If anyone is interested, there is a link and an email address on our compo page
(or go to http://pyweek.org/e/hiths/)

I've finally set up the website, which can be accessed from my homepage.

What on earth has happened to the pyweek front page? It looks like the style has been corrupted or something. I tried reloading but nothing changes.

Here is a little sorta E=MC^2, sorta not themed warmup game I'm currently working on.

http://cthulhu32.kraln.com/pyweek5/LightChaser-0.1A.zip

If you get annoyed by the fact that it quits after you kill all the enemies, open up game.py, and comment out Line 67.

Basically this is just a little mouse physics game, right click accelerates, left click shoots. You can't die yet, and the enemies die without any explosion or anything. My next step is to add points, explosions when things get hit, possible power-ups when you kill the drones and/or mother-ship, some level design, and a menu/high score. Then I'll call it good for a warmup game :)

Also did a little warmup but will probably not finish it - made to many mistakes :-)

Nevertheless I'll show off a screenshot since I'm content with the visual quality and will try to achieve something similar in pyweek.

btw: this game is called "Humans".The two people of blue and red fight against each other over "planet"-control. The players must utilizy that war to their advantage to build 50+% of all planet's capitals.

It's a couple of days late, but I finished my warmup entry for the theme "E = MC^2".

It took around 3 days to write and draw, and another half-day (today) to make the sound effects. It uses the experimental pyglet 1.0alpha2, just released yesterday (there are very few API changes since the previous release).

So, if you're feeling twitchy, grab pyglet from the link above and then download conserve-1.zip. Requires a reasonable graphics card and OpenAL.