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hodgestar on 2013/09/01 23:03 of nagslang
— edited on 2013/09/01 23:19

We appear to have gotten off to a reasonably smooth start. Given the Moon theme the team seemed to automatically gravitate towards science fiction themes and after much discussion we agreed on doing some sort of top-down puzzle action game with maybe light combat. To tie in the theme further, we made the protagonist a werewolf.



Having learned previously that physics engines are hard, we opted to use a physics engine library this time. After an extensive selection process (i.e. we found it first) we decided to use pymunk. Jerith attempted to convince us again that writing a physics engine wasn't actually that hard, but fortunately the memory of Nine Tales was still fresh in everyone's minds.

Having selected a vague genre, storyline and tool set, we got to work and ended the day with:

• a play area with bounding walls
• a protagonist that can change between human and werewolf forms
• the beginnings of a level editor
• the ability to change between game and menu screens
• a pressure sensitive switch on the floor
• reasonable first draft of player movement controls
• some code for loading resources
• artwork for the protagonist and a few aliens