Quantity over quality

cyhawk on 2014/10/12 19:56 of Lightswitch
— edited on 2014/10/12 20:25

The game includes 1616 drawings. Almost all are of fish, flowers, or disfigured stick figures.

(These are, unfortunately, not even representative of the overall quality.)

I wrote a simple drawing program for this massive amount of art, because I wanted to be able to:

Record the timing of the strokes.
Jump to the next word with one key press.
See the Wikipedia entry for the subject.

You can check out the drawing program and other marvels in our GitHub repo.

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Comments

grummi on 2014/10/19 13:37:

The game wouldn't run for me (linux). I had to change something in the loop function:

    pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT), pygame.OPENGL | pygame.DOUBLEBUF | pygame.HWSURFACE)
    pygame.display.gl_set_attribute(pygame.GL_MULTISAMPLEBUFFERS, 1)
    pygame.display.gl_set_attribute(pygame.GL_MULTISAMPLESAMPLES, 4)

display.set_mode has to be called before display.gl_set_attribute

cyhawk on 2014/10/19 18:58:

Oh, interesting. Thanks for figuring that out! It worked for me on Ubuntu 14.04, but it probably also depends on GPU and drivers.

Alex on 2014/10/20 21:04:

That's odd. The documentation explicitly states: "This must be called before pygame.display.set_mode()" :-/ Oh, testing things here, I think I know what's happening: Your graphics card/drivers probably don't support multi-sampling, but if the calls are placed after set_mode, they're ignored. Does it work if you replace the first part of Loop (up to glViewport) with:

pygame.init() pygame.display.set_caption('Lightswitch') try: pygame.display.gl_set_attribute(pygame.GL_MULTISAMPLEBUFFERS, 1) pygame.display.gl_set_attribute(pygame.GL_MULTISAMPLESAMPLES, 32) pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT), pygame.OPENGL | pygame.DOUBLEBUF | pygame.HWSURFACE) except pygame.error: pygame.display.gl_set_attribute(pygame.GL_MULTISAMPLEBUFFERS, 0) pygame.display.gl_set_attribute(pygame.GL_MULTISAMPLESAMPLES, 0) pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT), pygame.OPENGL | pygame.DOUBLEBUF | pygame.HWSURFACE)

Alex on 2014/10/20 21:04:

Ah, fail. Hmm, let's try that again:

    pygame.init()
    pygame.display.set_caption('Lightswitch')
    try:
      pygame.display.gl_set_attribute(pygame.GL_MULTISAMPLEBUFFERS, 1)
      pygame.display.gl_set_attribute(pygame.GL_MULTISAMPLESAMPLES, 32)
      pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT), pygame.OPENGL | pygame.DOUBLEBUF | pygame.HWSURFACE)
    except pygame.error:
      pygame.display.gl_set_attribute(pygame.GL_MULTISAMPLEBUFFERS, 0)
      pygame.display.gl_set_attribute(pygame.GL_MULTISAMPLESAMPLES, 0)
      pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT), pygame.OPENGL | pygame.DOUBLEBUF | pygame.HWSURFACE)