Never in the previous pyweeks did i have so much trouble selecting the order of voting.. had to think for quite a while before i could come up with the right votes.. :)

ps: just in case you were wondering.. this is just a diary entry to see if everything in my logins is working fine :D

I've spent most of the day today trying to figure out how to create the art work required for the game ill' be making.. i've decided that ill' be making a 2D game with 3D renders.. so I have been looking at blender's options tinkering around with it.. to get the right data. I've still got this question about using opengl or pygame ... but most probably ill' stick with just pygame library. But this might change.. just in case.. i learn the glsl shaders usage in pyglet or pyopengl.

I was planning on developing the game in opengl and was wondering if it is ok to assume that all the systems that the participants have will support pixel and vertex shaders.

These shaders are going to be important from the game play perspective as well so any suggestions about whether or not I should go with the shaders or just stick with basic pygame surface blts etc.

If the shaders cannot be assumed, i guess ill' stick with pygame's surface blts and make a 2D game.   

This looks pretty neat.. i am hoping to use this art style in my game..... tentatively  :D

So here is the story / game im' going to be working on. I kinda tried incorporating all the themes in here :)   

First renders of the models i created for the Game... I think i kinda got them done pretty well :D

ps.. just in case you were wondering.. I used blender to create these models. And I got the brick textures off the net. And the buildings ofcourse are created using reference i posted earlier.   

I've worked on getting the mouse controls done gestures to wind mapping stuff.. pretty much done.. i.e, the physics part. I've been obsessed with getting the art done along with the game so i've spent quite some time to get it right :)  tomorrow I have to work on getting the collision detection done.

No Screenies of todays work coz there isn't much to show off for a falling feather :p

ps: Lot of entries do seem to be using the wind control.. hope it doesn't become a feather in wind themed competition :)

Almost accomplished the look of the game. ...
To Do list:

1. Timer for Levels (decide on how levels will be put in, load from file?)
2. 1. Hud has to be done (along with timer etc)
3. Menus
4. Animation of coloring (can wait till other items are done)
5. Background (sun, clouds, animation of color)

Kinda have to do a final push before every thing is done.. only 2.20 days to go :)

Tried a different type of menu style.. every thing looks black and white.. but as you complete the levels, the menu get's colored.. indicating which levels you have completed.



You can see the indication on screen of the direction of wind blowing.. (you use mouse strokes to blow wind)


And Splash!! thats' how enemies die.. giving the feather it's color.. which you can use to paint the buildings with.
you can download the almost complete version from here

So here are the final features that are present in game right now..

1) wind control using mouse gestures (left to rigtht, right to left, down to up, up to down)
2) Squish the enemies with feather (with wind force) to get their color if you just touch them, you loose color.
3) Combine colors from enemies to create new colors. Paint the world with these composite colors to get more points.
4) Game keeps track of your best records (least time for level, max score)
5) Paint the world the way you want (different colors from enemies)
6) Has sound effects (very basic.. but they work, you might want to turn down the volume before testing)

Finally here is the Link if you want to try it out

class MediaCollector(build_exe):
    def copy_extensions(self, extensions):
#        super(MediaCollector, self)
        build_exe.copy_extensions(self, extensions)

        # Create the media subdir where the
        # Python files are collected.
        media = os.path.join('..', 'data')
        full = os.path.join(self.collect_dir, media)
        if not os.path.exists(full):
            self.mkpath(full)

        # Copy the media files to the collection dir.
        # Also add the copied file to the list of compiled
        # files so it will be included in zipfile.
        for f in glob.glob(os.path.join('..','data/*')):
            name = os.path.basename(f)
            self.copy_file(f, os.path.join(full, name))
            self.compiled_files.append(os.path.join(media, name))


py2exe_options = {
            'cmdclass': {'py2exe': MediaCollector}
            #'bundle_files':1
                # [...] Other py2exe options here.
                }
setup(windows= ['run_game.py'], **py2exe_options

As in It is in GOLD status... (ready to be shipped.. you know... as in games... ok what ever) 
The windows exe is up for download grab it now :D

ps:Posting this for facebook, coz it picked up my prev diary entry which is just a script :)