TSoG&B: Before PyWeek

cyhawk on 2013/04/23 03:30 of The Sea of Good and Bad

We were too busy to post any diary entries, but now I think we can go back and summarize how things went.

I basically mentioned PyWeek to everyone I bumped into in the weeks before the contest and got 10 or so people in the team. It was crazy. We came up with 2-3 detailed ideas for each theme candidate and it was painful shooting them down. Here are my dead soldiers if you're interested:

• Third-person shooter (kryptonite)
• Selfless sidekick (sidekick)
• Simultaneous control (nemesis)
• Capture Them All (secret identity)

It was a lot of fun just throwing ideas at each other. We also tried to make warmup games, but that didn't go very far. (Just watch out, I'll finish Space Bear Cathedrals as warmup for next PyWeek!)

In the end we had to settle on one idea per theme candidate. This would surely have escalated to a knife-fight had we not worked through Google+ hangouts. (How do other teams do this? I wonder if there is a peaceful way of going about it...)

We then added even more detail to the winners, down to screen mocks and milestones! (See the TPS and the secret identity game above.) We thought we were ready for PyWeek! But were we...? Find out in our next episode! :)