Day 4 - time is moving fast

Darky on 2007/04/04 20:29 of DarkVoid Productions

It's allready day 4 and we haven't made much progress and it is getting late so let me sum up what has happened the last 2 days.
Day 3:
  • I thought it would be a nice idea having a scrolling landscape (bad idea)
  • I realised I didn't know arse about implementing a scrolling landscape
  • After 3 hours of fruitless attempts at implementing a scrolling landscape I give up and save it for the next day (bad idea again)
    Day 4:
  • I start by thinking of my different alternatives of how to get a scrolling landscape up
  • I start by trying with phil's pygame utilities (pgu)
  • After another 2-3 hours of fruitless attempts I give up the idea and realise I've just wasted 2 days on nothing while I could have been working on more essential parts of the game (eg. like the dwarf class)
    So now we're going for a big map and many levels. So far I've got the map part up and it's working nicely.
    Hopefully the remaining 2-3 days (depending on how you see it and where you live) will be better spent.
    ohh, and I've uploaded a screenshot of the game (it's not great, but heeey, I did it in the middle of the night and I was tired and should probably have sleept!). I wonder how you guys take such good screen shots..
    Anywas enough with my ramblings, it's time to go to bed...

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    CPUFreak91 on 2007/04/05 01:14:

    "After another 2-3 hours of fruitless attempts I give up the idea and realise I've just wasted 2 days on nothing while I could have been working on more essential parts of the game (eg. like the dwarf class)"


    I did that. I spent a whole day trying to get the menu system working (it was frozen). It turns out the reason the menu wasn't working was because I had copied some code from a game (to use as an example). I was using tabs, and the other game's code used spaces. Python freaked out when it saw 2 spaces and then my 4 space-width tabs, so stopped interpreting code.

    Boy do I feel stupid...

    sjbrown on 2007/04/06 19:08:

    Regarding scrolling, you could check out my Scroll, Jump and Beguile! game on the gamelets page. Basically just use a ScrollingGroup instead of RenderUpdates, and add a displayRect attribute and a NotifyDirtyScreen method to your sprites

    http://www.pygame.org/gamelets/