Finished!

dowski on 2019/09/28 18:34 of The Rohirrim

I think we're done.

A bunch of stuff went in yesterday.

Damage to towers
Shotgun
Shield
Medkit
Sound effects
Improved tower images
Active player indicator
Hacked in 1-player mode

Today was mostly about packaging and some finishing touches.

Menu + instructions
Refined 1-player mode
Play again after game finishes
Balancing attack vs. defense

The game still feels a bit random (in fact that's how the "AI" in 1-player works). There are definitely smart ways to play though.

As for code quality, well ... the menu is a complete hack. There are lots of decently factored functions, but update() is sort of a mess. And there's global state everywhere. But in some ways it's laid out as simply as possible for collaborating with my son. We specially avoid lots of fancier Python functionality for that reason too (e.g. our only class in the game simply serves as a namespace).

This was a ton of fun! Looking forward to trying the other games and taking part in judging!

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rdb on 2019/10/06 12:55:

The game doesn't actually run with "python stackytower.py":

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "stackytower.py", line 9, in <module>
    P1_LEFT = keys.A
NameError: name 'keys' is not defined

Apparently I have to run "python -m pgzero stackytower.py". Might be wise to update the instructions.

dowski on 2019/10/06 20:00:

Oh woops! Thanks for letting me know! I'll get them updated.