Today I was able to both think of an idea and start making sprites for it. I'm keeping the majority of it a secret for now, but it essentially is a 2d platform shooter. I got all the assets for the main character, enemies, and bullets. I also got some mechanics working, like moving right/left and shooting. Tomorrow I should be able to get in jumping, some animations, and (hopefully) block textures for the floor/obstacles.

Today I really thought I would've accomplished more, but the walking animation took a bit longer than I was expecting 😅 I think it was worth it though. I also got a turning animation working, so the player doesn't just teleport whenever they turn lol.

Tomorrow I should be able to get all the frames of the animation in the game, including the left-facing ones. That'll leave me 3 days to make the actual game instead of just graphics 😂

Animation: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/media.pyweek.org/33/Anonymous/Gunner_Animation.gif

Didn't get the chance to make an entry yesterday, so I'll share what happened here.

Yesterday I finished getting all parts of every animation into the game. I also tried to make realistic gravity, but it didn't go so well...

Today I freshened up some sprites and made some things look much better. I also added terrain generation, and logic so the player falls if they aren't on a block. Unfortunately, there is no acceleration/gaining momentum while falling, so everything is quite obviously very linear. Maybe I'll come up with some way to make that better. I also got in some textures for blocks to stand on, which I think looks decent.

Tomorrow I really need to kick it into gear. The main thing on the list is making all the block textures, then making all the levels I can. This also means I need a way to store the level, which shouldn't be too terribly difficult (I hope). After all that, I need to add the actual main point of the game: the evil twin. I hope I can get all this tomorrow because if I don't, I'll be pretty behind.

After the (hopefully) grand success tomorrow will be, I would like to implement a health bar on each enemy and for the player. Then, I need to add in the simple ai to move the enemies towards the player. After that, I just need some sound effects and a sound track, both of which I will try to make myself.

Today I managed to make a breakthrough that allows me to create and save levels all inside the main.py file. It's become a secondary challenge for me to use the least amount of files necessary for literally no reason lol. Anyways, I also made it so the player can no longer clip through blocks above them by jumping through them. Additionally, zombies now have a little ai and deal damage to the player with a lil damage animation (blotting a red rectangle to the screen over the player rect lol).

I still have yet to incorporate the actual evil twin part, but I don't think that will bee *too* difficult. I also need to finish constructing all the levels. Should definitely be able to do that tomorrow.

Finally, I have the entirety of Saturday cleared for this lol. I should be able to fix any and all bugs, do some polishing and create sound effects and a soundtrack for my game. I'm also hoping to figure out how to use PyInstaller to turn my game into a single, stand-alone file.

Whew. A lot has happened in the past 48 hours. I'll try to give a rundown here.

Yesterday, I worked a lot on polishing and optimizations. I also made all the sound effects and music.

Today was spent packaging files and making things compatible for the most people possible. I tried to do stuff with pyinstaller, but kept getting appdir errors on launch.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with how the game came out. I spent probably 20+ hours on it in total. If I were to go back, I'd change things, sure, but for a first pyweek entry, I'd say I did decently well. I went from making snake to pong to this 😂 

What I used to make the game:

Code development: PyCharm

Sprite creation: Piskel

Sound effects: Audacity

Music: Bosca Ceoil