run out of time

DR0ID on 2010/08/29 19:21 of Alpha Place
— edited on 2010/08/29 19:25

Hello Unfortunately I ran out of time. My plan was to finish it today (I know, playing against the rules), but not even that was possible. It is a pity because I had a real neat idea. But at least I learned how parallax scrolling works and can be implemented. Anyway if anyone is interested what I was working on can find it here:

http://code.google.com/p/pyweek5-maze/source/browse/#svn/trunk/pyweek11-2010-08

"svn checkout http://pyweek5-maze.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyweek11-2010-08/ CaughtOnPicture-readonly"

~DR0ID

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dlotts on 2010/08/30 00:50:

Me too. I'm even too lame to post what I had!  Bravo for doing that Dr0id!
Anybody know if we are eligible to judge?
No gamey -- no judgey?

dlotts

tartley on 2010/08/30 15:12:

Heh!  The parallax effect looks brilliant though! I really love how the parallax is actually involved in the putative gameplay, as wildlife briefly becomes visible through the trees. Nice work on that.

DR0ID on 2010/08/31 16:05:

Thanks! I really regret to not have finished on time.

About the parallax scrolling: before pyweek I only knew the basics, but not how to implement it. The implementation is very simple:

There are layers in the range 0.0 - 1.0, the layer on the front is 1.0 (and should have the size you can scroll) and the background is 0.0 (fixed in the window). To draw the layers I just do:

screen_x = sprite.x - (view.scroll_offsetx * sprite.layer)

That is all the magic of parallax scrolling.

JDruid on 2010/09/01 01:26:

BTW don't worry about it, it was still good experience for me. :)