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Mutate You Must!

A Pyweek 13 entry by Errors in front of keyboards (Archy, Blinkmann, HerzogIgzorn, Pumpenkarl)

We decided to make a tower offense game.

You are an evil alien, who wants to conquer the earth by “mutating” its inhabitants into evil creatures who fight their own race. The challenge is to mutate the right creatures at the right time, to overcome the defense lines of the earthlings. Because of the endangered human species, you have to choose your resources carefully.

Should run on Windows, Linux and Mac:
Windows: 32Bit of Python >= 2.6
Mac: 32Bit of Python >= 2.6, tested on OS X 10.6.8
Linux: 32Bit (x64 not tested) of Python >= 2.6. When crashing start with -s, deactivates sound which seems to be a little fragile with pyglet on linux

If it feels laggy: please set vSync to True in application.py line 54. Thanks!

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Overall: 4.1
Fun: 4
Production: 4.3
Innovation: 4.1

Respondents: 23

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MutateYouMust-1.03.zip — final
Added switches to deactivate sound 		Archy 2011/09/18 12:01
MutateYouMust-1.02.zip — final
MutateYouMust 1.02 - linux font fix 		Archy 2011/09/18 04:27
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Final 		Archy 2011/09/18 00:58
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Editor mostly working! 		Archy 2011/09/14 20:16
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day3 		Pumpenkarl 2011/09/14 02:45
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Creeeeps! 		Archy 2011/09/11 23:52

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HerzogIgzorn on 2011-09-05 22:39

I am impressed. Pyglet is working for me ;)

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PyWeek - Mutate! TO - Day 1

Blinkmann on 2011-09-12 20:05

We decided to make a tower offense game.

You are an evil alien, who wants to conquer the earth by “mutating” its inhabitants into evil creatures who fight their own race.

The challenge is to mutate the right creatures at the right time, to overcome the defense lines of the earthlings. Because of the endangered human species, you have to choose your resources carefully.

Day 1 Brainstorm for possible creeps:

  • Fast Food Restaurant:  Spawns “Fatsos” who roll their way through the defense lines. They are extremely durable.
  • Sports Court:  Spawns “Runners” who are very fast but weak.
  • Tavern: Spawns “Drunks” who attract the fire of the towers.
Screenshot day 1:

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Mutate! Tower Offense - Day 2

Archy on 2011-09-13 01:03

Second day, good progress: Shooting tanks, path following creeps, some sounds, basic gui logic and the same awesome background! Currently working on a simple map editor. First gameplay testing is planned for tomorrow, hope we will make that!

Screenshot Day 2:

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Mutate! Tower Offense - Day 3

Pumpenkarl on 2011-09-14 02:43

Today, there have been several decisions regarding game design and in addition the graphics also leaped forward quite a bit. There is an editor now too, allowing us to puzzle together levels very fast.

Since we do not intend to be too politically correct, there are our 3 different types of buildings the player can choose from

    -FastFood Restaurant spawning „Fatsos“, tanklike

    -Beergarden spawning drunk people, attracting aggro from towers

    -Orphanage spawning Orphans, they are weak but many

Main menu also works pretty fine now, stay tuned!

screenshot day 3 screenshot

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Mutate! Tower Offense - Day 4

Pumpenkarl on 2011-09-15 01:45

Incredible News today: Functionally, our game is mostly complete. That means, the editor is fully operational now and the game mechanics are ready to be taken to the next stage, designing the levels.

Also, the graphics are mostly complete, leaving us in the comfortable position of creating the levels now as well as polishing the graphics and adding sound assets!

Stay tuned!

screenshot day 4: screenshot

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Hypnosis

Archy on 2011-09-15 22:06

Added optional grid alignment to the editor, logically I had to build towers all over the map. They are all rotating in different directions. This will make you dizzy! (when viewed in motion) :)