PyWeek vs Work in retrospect

cyhawk on 2009/09/06 00:47 of Leaving Crete
— edited on 2009/09/06 00:56

Up until last week I was working from home all the time and putting work aside for a week was no problem last time. Going to work is new to me, and combining it with PyWeek was quite a challenge for my inexperienced self! I did some work on Sunday — I had a nice idea, drew some art and wrote a prototype. These were for three different games though :). I ended up with making a game from the art.

• The prototype was for a game where you design a lander (scribble something with the mouse) that then enters an atmosphere that I simulate very precisely and the goal is to land with an acceptable speed (no control during landing). The simulation was not very precise in the prototype but it already used up way too much CPU.
• The idea was a game where you start with a naked bird and you can place feathers on her in any pattern you like. Preferably different patterns would not just look different ("design your parrot"), but give you different abilities, etc.
• The art was a flapping animation for Icarus (or an angel?).

So there, I made a kind of side-scrolling shooter with Icarus. Except that you can not shoot. But everyone else can :). Give it a try!

(This game brought to you by Richard, who magnanimously allowed my entry to be registered late!)

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Cosmologicon on 2009/09/12 23:38:

Just wondering, is this counting as a solo entry or a team entry? I see there are two people listed in the readme. I know the website decides what's a team based on how many usernames there are for it, but maybe there should be an exception if not everyone has a PyWeek account?

cyhawk on 2009/09/12 23:55:

You are right. I wanted to register for her and make it a team entry, but I was already trying to register the entry too late and had to ask for Richard's help and did not want to trouble him even more. If it's still possible, and not too much work to turn this into a team entry, I would be indebted even more :).

richard on 2009/09/13 02:14:

You should be able to edit the team info to add the additional member. If you need someone registered with the site I can do that too.

cyhawk on 2009/09/13 08:22:

Thank you Richard! Could you please create the account for her with these parameters?

Username: bejus
Email: [snip]

(As far as I see registrations are closed for now, so I can not do it myself — let me know if I'm wrong and I just overlooked a link, I have a tendency for that.)

nitrofurano on 2009/09/13 20:05:

@richard @cyhawk - please consider deleting the above message after getting it ready for privacy reasons (like spam, bots, etc.)

richard on 2009/09/13 22:13:

I'll note for future reference that my contact email address is at the bottom of every page on this site :)

richard on 2009/09/14 01:20:

Have added bejus.

cyhawk on 2009/09/14 07:24:

Fantastic, thanks a lot!