Our Final Submission

codexile on 2007/09/09 21:10 of Gloopy

Wow, pyweek has come to a close. All I can say for us is that we had a blast!

It was a week of pizza, bawls, indian food, and chaos as we raced against time to get our (admittedly) overambitious project out the door. We both do python programming fulltime, but both came into this contest with very limited pygame knowledge.

The pinnacle of pyweek had to be those last three hours. We were running out of time and our game was very unpolished to say the least. Movement was very skippy, we had no music or sound, couldn't detatch from monsters, couldn't take damage, and so on and so on. There was a lot left to do!

Somehow, we managed to wrap things up quite nicely and then ... it happened. The last 30 minutes of pygame everything that could of went wrong, did go wrong. Still, we ended up submitting our md5 at 0:00UTC on the dot. Sadly, we didn't have time to fix a few bugs that cropped up at the last minute. One bug is that the level stops scrolling after a certain point, which sort of puts the kaibosh on our first level.

All in all we consider our project to be successful. We don't have a full level and the code can still be buggy at times, but we pulled things together into what we consider a pretty polished game for never having worked in pygame before. We're both really proud of what we did manage to accomplish, and frankly, neither of us thought we would make it nearly as far as we did. We both learned a lot during this competition and plan on continuing development on this game post pyweek.

Anyway, hope you all enjoy what's up there. We anxiously await the next pyweek!

Note about the final submission:
Blobbit is a puzzle platform game in which your only ability is to take control of monsters in your environment.  Currently the only monster in the game is Drakko, a fire monster which can damage other creatures and melt ice.

Fight your way through an exciting half a level and obtain vials to increase your mass.  Get too small and you won't be able to take control of Drakko anymore, but you will be able to sneak past him.  Make Drakko jump and jump off of him midair to get to some high places, but watch out!  The Evil Count Bugincode will stop you in your tracks if you bash your head into a cieling tile, mua ha ha.

Attach to a monster:  Jump on it
Detatch: Left Alt
Monster Ability: Left Ctrl
Jump: Space