I've been quiet, haven't I?

I'm only working on my game during my commute and after hours. And when I say "game" I mean "some toy that's not a game because I don't actually have a game idea yet" :)

I've been coming to terms with the Cocos way of doing things. This is fun, because the Cocos developers are actively developing it under me :)

After a couple of days of catching a very strong flu, I'm back to coding (and re-studying my physics...) So most of the engine seems to be working now.

I wanted to try to make a point-and-click adventure for this pyweek, but I think I found out by the end of the first 24 hours that the graphics necessary were just too difficult for me to even attempt. But I decided I could put together a nice text adventure that would be just as fun (maybe more fun). And besides, I've really been into using Python's cmd module lately (command lines are hot!).

I have a lot of the game logic complete, but it's mostly the basic text adventure stuff (movement, inventory and object handling). I still need to create the game and write the logic for non-player characters and object interactions. The whole game is stored in an sqlite database.

I think I'm also going to include a walkthrough for people who want to play through the game, but don't want to invest the time. Seem reasonable?

This is the people icon, that show player how many robot is alive.

I finally started working on my game (Yes, on day three. Shut up), now that I've got an idea in mind.

My game is a courtroom adventure, where a robot is accused of breaking one of his Prime Directives. So far I've been working on the script, and done a little work writing some code to parse my simple text format. (Mainly so I can have it complain when I forget to write one of the conversation paths)

The game is essentially text with some icons, so I haven't yet decided on the format. I'm thinking of doing a pygame-based "chatroom" system, but I could just as easily render it to HTML. Not sure if that really counts as a python game, since I'd just be using it to convert a script to html, which is then played.

On Sunday we did a bit of brainstorming at Luke's messy apartment. We came up with some good ideas for a strategic platformer, which involves--you guessed it--robots. We'll see what comes of this in days to come.

-Spence

Nope, no way I can get even remotely interested in robots. It's such an old, tired theme for games. It's been done more times than Britney Spears and Paris Hilton combined. What's the fun in that? Oh well. See yins all in the fall, maybe.

My plan is to make a simple top-down style shooter. No innovative gameplay or great original graphics, so please forgive me on that. I'm just hoping for something functional by then end of the week. I can already see quite a few people have some pretty amazing stuff

At first I thought I'd give some time to designing some nice code, but I only started messing with the pygame API a week before the contest so instead I just dove in and starting coding stuff.

My goals:

• 1 Level
• 1 Hero with 8 rotatable positions and a graphic to match
• 3 Evil Robot sprites
• Hero has 2 weapons
• projectile
• beam

What I've go so far

• Basic hero sprite drawn on screen.
• The level constructed and rendered, which is walls and floor.
• The level also has markers or where to put the robots and hero.
• The hero moves around on screen and the screen follows with the hero centered.

What I'm working on

• Collision detection of hero with walls.
• I'm having difficulty moving the hero back to the correct position after a collision.

So, I've been working diligently, and I've got the majority of the part of my game engine that handles the puzzle aspect of my game done. I have weight-activated switches coded in, and I have blocks that are affected by gravity, in both the positive and negative directions.

The robot also has a new ability. You can now use it to push objects that are level to your character and in a direct line of sight. Yea, it's simple beyond simple but hey, I'll take my victories where I can get them. I'm trying to find some creative uses for this ability, and I've come up with a few good ones.

I've also got screenshots!

Debug Level 1

Debug Level 2

The resolution is low. Yea, I know. I'm lazy and on top of that I'm miserable with graphics. If I get done early, maybe I'll pretty things up and double the resolution.

Oh, and if you're wondering about the hammer and sickle, well, I'm probably going to go with some sort of Soviet theme (I've actually toyed with the idea of sub-titling the thing "Great Soviet project for make better human-robot symbiosis in order to being of used for make magnificent army of the motherland", but I'm fearing that might be too much stupid and not enough just plain ridiculous). So yea, anyways, it seemed that it would be a fitting background for the debug levels.

And as far as combat goes, I'm probably just going to give the puzzle solving abilities offensive capabilities. That way I'll be able to have more time to refine the engine and create as many puzzles as possible.

I will just keep this one short :)

Serval was able to implement level loading today and currently struggles with implementing different functions behind different fields, while I created some new images. From what it looks now we are performing well and it might be that we will finish this game within the challenge - but we should not overrate our current performance ;)

*was not able to prevent himself from (again) adding C.A.T.B.O.T. to his post* - let's just call it a compensation for our todays missing screenshot, k?