Believe it or not, progress!

dbickett on 2006/03/28 03:52 of heureusement

Whether or not we'll be able to finish our idea in time this week is very questionable. For three or four different reasons, this turned out to be the worst possible week for us. To be honest, we still haven't finished our idea. However, if you read my previous post regarding how the three stick figures will be coerced into doing what the user wants...

The player will press three keys in sequence on the keyboard. The keys must all touch one another diagonally, horizontally, or vertically, to be considered a cohesive set of three keys. For example, if the player presses T, H, U on a QWERTY keyboard, this will "suggest" to the morons the shape "V" and they can be expected to then take that formation on the platform/plane/field/grid...

I went on to explain the technical details of how the system would work. Though it took me several hours of fixing obscure technical errors to finally get it to work, I have finished the prototype for the keyboard suggestion. On all QWERTY keyboards, run this pygame utility and make a three letter shape on your keyboard (the keys have to be in contact with at least one other key in the three key shape), and that very same shape will be displayed on the screen. :)

keyboardPrototype.zip