PyWeek - The Amazing Gothenburg Linebackers - feedback

It took me forever to get a combination of pyglet, rabbyt and Box2D working together, but I eventually managed it. (And hacked around a pyglet bug to stop the game crashing at random intervals.)

The game is fun for a while, but lacks depth. It's probably about the right length for the current gameplay, but it's over too quickly to be really satisfying.

There's a reasonable balance in cloud motion, but it's easy to drift off to the side beyond the available cloud castles and not be able to catch a shadow back before becoming too tired to stay in the air.

As far as the gameplay goes, this was probably my favorite take on Icarus in this competition. And the cardboard sprites worked pretty well, setting up a nice atmosphere. I came *really* close to giving up before I found the golden castle, though. There's no indication of how you're doing in the game, if you're getting closer or what, and I was beginning to suspect that you hadn't programmed in a win condition. That's my one complaint.

Nice 'shade' effect. :) Game was a bit simple but fun, very irritating crashes though.

I got: import sfx File
"C:\progr\pyweek-9-all\linebackers\elemel-pycarus-c57d359348a6df0672f241f
827bbf2b5634ec135\pycarus\sfx.py", line 4, in wingflap =
pyglet.media.StaticSource(pyglet.resource.media('sounds/flap.wav' )) File
"build\bdist.win32\egg\pyglet\resource.py", line 581, in media
pyglet.resource.ResourceNotFoundException: Resource "sounds/flap.wav" was not fo und
on the path. Ensure that the filename has the correct captialisation.
C:\progr\pyweek-9-all\linebackers\elemel-pycarus-c57d359348a6df0672f241f827bbf2b

The game crashed a lot on my PC.

File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/pyglet/clock.py", line 794, in schedule_interval_soft
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/pyglet/clock.py", line 553, in schedule_interval_soft
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/pyglet/clock.py", line 585, in _get_soft_next_ts
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/pyglet/clock.py", line 563, in taken
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'NoneType' and 'float'

Didnt seem to be any real point to this because the crash ended the game so abruptly. I also found that once the game just took me back to main menu after I turned completely red?!

Kind of boring for now.
Too short.

the most promising in the sub theme Icarus.<br>

Sorry, froze at the opening screen, had to ssh into laptop to kill it. OS X.

Pretty art. A it lacking in gameplay depth.

another Box2d game... :/

On windows xp, python 2.6 and all other libraries as requested in the readme:
<pre>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 582, in <module>
main()
File "main.py", line 579, in main
pyglet.app.run()
File "[..]\pyglet\app\__init__.py", line 264, in run
EventLoop().run()
File "[..]\pyglet\app\win32.py", line 63, in run
self._timer_func(0, 0, timer, 0)
File "[..]\pyglet\app\win32.py", line 84, in _timer_func
sleep_time = self.idle()
File "[..]\pyglet\app\__init__.py", line 187, in idle
dt = clock.tick(True)
File "[..]\pyglet\clock.py", line 698, in tick
return _default.tick(poll)
File "[..]\pyglet\clock.py", line 303, in tick
item.func(ts - item.last_ts, *item.args, **item.kwargs)
File "main.py", line 451, in step
self.icarus.step(self.dt)
File "main.py", line 148, in step
sfx.flap()
File "[..]\pycarus\sfx.py", line 30, in flap
player = wingflap.play()
File "[..]pyglet\media\__init__.py", line 397, in play
player.play()
File "[..]\pyglet\media\__init__.py", line 814, in play
self._update_schedule()
File "[..]\pyglet\media\__init__.py", line 781, in _update_schedule
clock.schedule_interval_soft(self.dispatch_events, interval)
File "[..]\pyglet\clock.py", line 794, in schedule_interval_soft
_default.schedule_interval_soft(func, interval, *args, **kwargs)
File "[..]\pyglet\clock.py", line 553, in schedule_interval_soft
next_ts = self._get_soft_next_ts(last_ts, interval)
File "[..]\pyglet\clock.py", line 585, in _get_soft_next_ts
if not taken(next_ts, interval / 4):
File "[..]\pyglet\clock.py", line 563, in taken
if abs(item.next_ts - ts) <= e:
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'NoneType' and 'float'
</pre>

Wow, what a traceback! ^^

Interesting idea, but it's too hard.

Nice choice for art

Had to do some pyglet.resource.path / .reindex hackery to all Pycarus to find its resources.
Flying with clouds as shade was a cool idea but game itself was very short. Enjoyed it while it
lasted though.