Dandelion teaser #1
Dandelion
Everything you wanted to know about the reproduction of dandelions. Now in an interactive illustrated form!
Awards
Scores
Ratings (show detail)
Overall: 4.1
Fun: 3.4
Production: 4.6
Innovation: 4.3
Respondents: 13
Files
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dandelion-1.1.zip
Windows executable |
cyhawk | 2012/09/16 23:07 |
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Dandelion-1.1.dmg
Mac bundle |
cyhawk | 2012/09/16 22:54 |
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dandelion-1.1.tgz
— final
Source with crashfix, optimization and icon |
cyhawk | 2012/09/16 22:49 |
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dandelion-1.0.1.zip
— final
Added README.txt |
cyhawk | 2012/09/16 00:34 |
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dandelion-1.0.zip
— final
Source code and music |
cyhawk | 2012/09/16 00:19 |
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Growing roots |
cyhawk | 2012/09/13 00:38 |
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Dandelion-teaser-2.png
Dandelion teaser #1 |
Alex | 2012/09/11 23:33 |
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Discarded design: Character sketch 2 |
cyhawk | 2012/09/09 23:38 |
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Discarded design: Character sketch |
cyhawk | 2012/09/09 23:38 |
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Discarded design: Map detail |
cyhawk | 2012/09/09 23:37 |
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Discarded design: Map bird's eye view |
cyhawk | 2012/09/09 23:37 |
Diary Entries
One design down, one more to go
cyhawk on 2012-09-09 23:55
We planned ahead this time and came up with ideas for each theme last week. For One Way Trip it was "an artsy game about a dandelion seed". Apparently there is more than one possible implementation of that, and we spent today arguing the merits of two. One you will see later and I'll describe now the one you won't.
It would be a flight simulator for a dandelion seed. Wind would be very important and you could see the streams from the motion of fellow dandelion seeds. In a way you would be navigating this 3D maze in a tranquil valley. You would see "drops of sunshine" from afar and could collect them for points. They would each be located by a diorama and the narrator would say something wise when you reach them.
The grave above would be a diorama. Also these guys:
Flying up high would give a unique perspective too:
(You can see the grave in the top right.)
It would be a flight simulator for a dandelion seed. Wind would be very important and you could see the streams from the motion of fellow dandelion seeds. In a way you would be navigating this 3D maze in a tranquil valley. You would see "drops of sunshine" from afar and could collect them for points. They would each be located by a diorama and the narrator would say something wise when you reach them.
The grave above would be a diorama. Also these guys:
Flying up high would give a unique perspective too:
(You can see the grave in the top right.)
Starting screen of the other design
Alex on 2012-09-11 23:47
We spent all of Sunday arguing about how exactly we were going to implement the flight of the dandelion seed, and only today did we really have the idea fully fleshed out (at least to the point where I feel that if we implement it all, we will have a coherent game).
I don't want to give away all of what we're doing yet, but as a bit of a teaser, this is the title screen, the starting point of the journey:
(Procedural vector graphics ftw. >400fps full-screen, animated; dealing with GLSL versions and driver/ctypes/OpenGL-wrapper issues is a bit of a pain, though...)
I don't want to give away all of what we're doing yet, but as a bit of a teaser, this is the title screen, the starting point of the journey:
(Procedural vector graphics ftw. >400fps full-screen, animated; dealing with GLSL versions and driver/ctypes/OpenGL-wrapper issues is a bit of a pain, though...)
Dandelion: Thanks for the feedback!
cyhawk on 2012-10-06 14:09
Thanks for the kind comments and generous ratings! It seems undecided whether mini-games are a good idea for PyWeek. From the production perspective they definitely are — you can always add more if you have time or drop some if you don't. It's not easy to make them satisfying but since they are short, we hoped the player would not mind that much.
- SO PRETTY, a beautifully crafted game, unfortunately the fun apsect was let down by it being really easy with no way to lose
Hah! You just did not try hard enough! You can actually avoid collecting any fairies and lose. It's easy to make a mistake and get one by accident, so this is a more challenging way to play the game.
- Beautiful. No frustratingly difficult sections you have to master to get past. Just pretty things to look at, pleasant varied tasks to attempt, and more shinies the better you do instead of a numerical score. The only negative thing is it took me an hour of installing non-free Nvidia drivers, breaking my X11 setup catastrophically, booting a previous kernel version, manually editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and finally getting the PC working again, before the thing would actually run. Actually, it was STILL worth it. I will be plundering the code shamelessly to learn how to do OpenGL properly.