So it goes.

jerith on 2009/09/06 00:50 of Rinkhals

The final fourteen hours of PyWeek 9 were less frantic and stressful than we had expected. Four and a half hours before the deadline, we adjourned for a leisurely dinner and some milkshakes across the road before returning to figure out how to package everything for three different operating systems.

Lessons learned:

• Milkshakes are an awesome way to avoid packaging PyWeek entries for Windows.
• Constants don't actually have to be constant.
• If in doubt, reimplement everything in the external library from scratch twice before reading the code.
• Planning is overrated.
• Documentation is overrated.
• Never underestimate the motivational power of a pretty picture.
• There's no such thing as a hack that's too horrible.
• You really can convince your boss to delay an important deployment for pyweek.

Lessons not learned:

• How to fit in sleep between day jobs, social obligations and pyweek.
• Where to get food on short notice at weird hours.

All in all, this has been a fantastic experience. We had a great team, a few good ideas and ended up with a game that actually worked. There's still a long list of features we'd like to add, and we'll probably get to them over the next month or two.

We'll definitely be back for the next pyweek. :-)