PyWeek - GamerC08 - feedback

I had to convert main.mp3 to an ogg so that the game would play. Nice graphics

Couldn't load the audio it seems

pygame 2.0.1 (SDL 2.0.14, Python 3.8.6)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 417, in <module>
main()
File "main.py", line 72, in main
state = startGame(levelNum)
File "main.py", line 99, in startGame
pygame.mixer.music.load(lvl.bgSound)
pygame.error: Unrecognized audio format

This just seemed like a game of snake with moving apples (i.e. mice) but I liked that you made it try and fit the theme with the cool background story :) ... although I have to say you should make it so that when you have read the story once and then you die, you don't have to read it over again when you restart the level, because the game is fast paced and has a very short life time :) ... I had trouble getting past about the second or third screen as the mice/snake were too fast

Crashed due to unrecognized audio format.

Crashed after some initial dialog. Stack trace is below. This was after I got errors that pygame's mixer failed to load MP3 files on MacOS:

(venv) $ python main.py
pygame 2.0.1 (SDL 2.0.14, Python 3.9.4)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/jalexander/src/pyweek31_judging/31/snake-cop/SnakeCop/main.py", line 418, in <module>
main()
File "/Users/jalexander/src/pyweek31_judging/31/snake-cop/SnakeCop/main.py", line 67, in main
state = startGame(levelNum)
File "/Users/jalexander/src/pyweek31_judging/31/snake-cop/SnakeCop/main.py", line 146, in startGame
txt.showDialog(SCREEN, levelDialog, useFont[0])
File "/Users/jalexander/src/pyweek31_judging/31/snake-cop/SnakeCop/txt.py", line 100, in showDialog
i = loadNextText(textBox, txtgroup, i)
File "/Users/jalexander/src/pyweek31_judging/31/snake-cop/SnakeCop/txt.py", line 48, in loadNextText
agentName, txt = groupText[index].split('-')
ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)
(venv) $

Crashed when starting first level:
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/richard/pyweek/31/snake-cop/SnakeCop/main.py", line 417, in <module>
main()
File "/home/richard/pyweek/31/snake-cop/SnakeCop/main.py", line 72, in main
state = startGame(levelNum)
File "/home/richard/pyweek/31/snake-cop/SnakeCop/main.py", line 99, in startGame
pygame.mixer.music.load(lvl.bgSound)
pygame.error: Unrecognized audio format
```

A charming game with a touch of humor. The diologue albeit without spelling errors made the gaming experience many times more enjoyable for me if it wasn't there. For example, when the snake told the other snake you have bool, I thought that was very funny. The game it self is fine. It is a bit laggy and shocking when it first starts because there is no warning at all. The funky electronic music adds to the chaos of the situation. It would be nice If a skipping dialogue function was added so that more time could be spent trying to beat the game.

Also, the game is too challenging. I could not get past the first level. But for the dialogue, I am willing to try again later. Hopefully I will beat the game.

Overall, I think this is a very solid entry because of the story and looking at the game as a whole package.

I nearly voted for DNW because of this,
(venv) C:\Users\me\Downloads\pyweek-judging\31\snake-cop\SnakeCop>pip install --upgrade pygame
Requirement already satisfied: pygame in c:\users\me\downloads\pyweek-judging\venv\lib\site-packages (2.0.1)

(venv) C:\Users\me\Downloads\pyweek-judging\31\snake-cop\SnakeCop>pip install shelve
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement shelve
ERROR: No matching distribution found for shelve

(venv) C:\Users\me\Downloads\pyweek-judging\31\snake-cop\SnakeCop>py main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\me\Downloads\pyweek-judging\31\snake-cop\SnakeCop\main.py", line 5, in <module>
import pygame, sys, random, time, mouse, debug, shelve
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygame'

but removing the first line in the main.py, fixed it for me.
I would have enjoyed it more, if i didn't had to sit through 1 minute of story, only to die 2 seconds later.

I had a lot of problems with this one.
When I selected an option from the menu nothing happened and if I pressed a key it sent an error, then I managed to start the game by double clicking very quickly on the restart option.
There is a lot of text that cannot be skipped, and the game starts very fast, so at the beginning I pressed many times up and when the game start I collided with the top wall immediately.
The game is simple, so I had no motivation to finish it.

fails, due to a string split

after fixing it, the game runns way to fast (speed 3x)..