PyWeek 15 - Day 1 - Game Idea and Coding

eggfu on 2012/09/10 00:48 of TeamASI

First an introduction: We are a two man team that use Python professionally. This is our first time to enter PyWeek.

We brainstormed last night and came up with an idea for a platform game with a commando on a suicide mission, a one way trip. Not so original but making a platformer should at least be fun.

We spent the day harvesting free sprites from the internet and writing some of the core engine code.

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richard on 2012/09/10 01:57:

Cool. Grab Pyxeledit for making pixel art. Cocos2d has a tile mapping engine. There's also the PyGame introduction and platformer tutorial I gave at PyCon US this year. Video and source for the tutorial at the link.

colt on 2012/09/10 02:32:

We now have basic sprites consisting of the commando running, standing, and parachuting. This is the first graphics/game development experience for me, so I spent most of the day learning some of the basic GIMP features such as edge detection and transparent layers. Also added some new keymappings to the engine code.