PyWeek - 3rd Project by Me - feedback

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1 1 1 yes

first i got:
Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg"

so i figured i had problems with that sound file in particular. rreplaced it with another. same problem.

i changed the "trap all" try: pygame.mixer.Sound(); except: complain
so i could see pygames exception a try tpo figure that out.

pygame said:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "run_game.py", line 4, in <module>
main.main()
File "/home/lucio/Desktop/pyweek/pw7_trobadour/Aluthea/gamelib/main.py", line 407, in main
game = Aluthea()
File "/home/lucio/Desktop/pyweek/pw7_trobadour/Aluthea/gamelib/main.py", line 149, in __init__
self.load_resources()
File "/home/lucio/Desktop/pyweek/pw7_trobadour/Aluthea/gamelib/main.py", line 174, in load_resources
load_sound( SFX_KEY_SPEECH_INTRO )
File "/home/lucio/Desktop/pyweek/pw7_trobadour/Aluthea/gamelib/main.py", line 66, in load_sound
sfx[file] = pygame.mixer.Sound( filename )
pygame.error: mixer system not initialized

i looked at main.py and saw that mixer was pre_inited only there. so i placed a bogus init() call. it hang. i gave up.

1 1 1

Only story here, no game. Good job on the story though. :P

1 1 1 yes

$ python run_game.py
Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg"

Screen flashed on then disappeared.

1 2 1 yes

I know it's a work in progress, but I'm just not sure how I should rate something that's not a game yet, sorry. The background and music are nice and the story sounds like it could be interesting but they don't make up for the lack of game. Reading the readme, the idea does sound nice and innovative, but I can't rate it if it's not implemented. Maybe it would have been better if you had focused on the game itself instead of the story. I'm DQing the game due to the lack of theme, too. Sorry. What you have so far is good, you just need the game itself.

1 3 1

Given that there isn't really any game there to speak of, I can't really mark the game... The production on what was there wasn't bad, and I hope you'll continue and finish your game!

1 1 1 yes

Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg"

1 1 1 yes

The game failed to start with the error:

Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg" Failed to start CoreAudio: AudioUnitSetProperty (kAudioUnitProperty_StreamFormat)

3 3 3 yes

Sorry your game didn't work for me -- it sounded really interesting, and I was looking forward to watching your sequences. The concept document sounds really cool. I installed the dependencies, but still got this error:
<pre>Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg" Failed to start CoreAudio: AudioUnitSetProperty (kAudioUnitProperty_StreamFormat)</pre><br>
This is on Mac OSX 10.4.11, Python 2.5, Pygame 1.8.1.

1 1 1

Like the story.... but no game

1 2 2

The entry is not complete yet.

1 3 3

Um... unfinished.

1 1 1 yes

running on ubuntu 8.04. I get error "can not load data/speech_intro.ogg". so i looked into the code and removed the try-except statements so i could see what pygame actually says.. and it tells me that the mixer is not initialised.. so i put pygame.mixer.init() at the start and that stops the error but nothing shows up... don't know what's wrong with my set up :-(

1 3 1

Decent title screen and two voice-over intro sequences. Unfortunately there's no actual game. Also required putting pygame.mixer call after call to start pygame before it would work at all.

1 1 1 yes

This is my error message. Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg" , But I can play it in my totem.

1 1 1

Didn't work:

facundo@pomcat:~/pyw7/pw7_trobadour/Aluthea$ python run_game.py
Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg"

The file existed, though, and I could play it with totem.. but the game didn't work...

3 3 4 yes

I got this error when launching:

Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg"

I can play the file independently of the game, so I'm not sure why it doesn't work. Looks intriguing though.

1 1 1 yes

Ah, no game here?

1 2 1

It was pretty hard to judge this based on the fact that there is no gameplay. Even some concept drawings would have been nice!

1 4 1

I didn't see any actual game but what else I saw was really nice!

2 2 2 yes

It didn't really work. I had some problems with sound and eventually found out that you had to
call mixer preinit after pygame.init. After that there was no real content i could find. I
don't know if this is a bug or if it's just not there so I'm marking DNW. Either way i like your
idea.

1 2 1

Well... Not much to do here.... ^^ - Nice voice and background, also an very interesting Idea, but sadly nothing to do...

1 1 1 yes

I ran the game on Ubuntu8.04 with 'python run_game.py' and it just hung. I could not end it by using Ctrl-C and had to kill it from top.

2 5 3

Wow!, what a nice production !!!<br>
Please follow up and post a link in pyame when done!<br>
Glad to play your game.

1 3 3

Too bad it's unfinished. The storyline is promising.

1 1 1 yes

Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg"

2 4 1

Sorry that you didn't finish your entry. I was rather disappointed that I couldn't actually
play anything after listening to the whole story. It was rather intriguing! Na, viel Erfolg
beim weiter Entwickeln!

1 3 1 yes

Couldn't get this one to work... I get the message:

Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg"

Changing the code a bit to get a better error message, I get:

File "/home/d/3/Aluthea/gamelib/main.py", line 177, in load_resources load_sound(
SFX_KEY_SPEECH_INTRO ) File "/home/d/3/Aluthea/gamelib/main.py", line 67, in
load_sound sfx[file] = pygame.mixer.Sound( filename ) pygame.error: mixer system not
initialized

Ok, retried later and fixed it (by commenting out the mixer.pre_init). Still tagged as DNW (I
had to fix it myself :) ), but can comment on it... It is just an intro; a cool one so it gets some
points in production (not exceptional because it lacks the production that goes into adding
real gameplay :) ). No fun and innovation if you won't show me the gameplay... but you piqued my
curiosity

1 4 1

Without a playable example of what you had in mind, I can't really rate those categories. It's a shame this wasn't finished, but I look forward to the upcoming real version, it sounds like a cool idea. The story/narration is great!

1 1 1 yes

Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg"

1 1 1 yes

eric@dre> pythonw run_game.py
2008-09-14 12:50:38.311 Python[402:613] Warning once: This application, or a library it uses, is using NSQuickDrawView, which has been deprecated. Apps should cease use of QuickDraw and move to Quartz.
Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg" Failed to start CoreAudio: AudioUnitSetProperty (kAudioUnitProperty_StreamFormat)

1 1 1 yes

Failed with:

Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg" Failed to start CoreAudio: AudioUnitSetProperty (kAudioUnitProperty_StreamFormat)

1 4 3

Didn't get the string...

1 1 1 yes

Could not load sound "data/speech_intro.ogg" Failed to start CoreAudio: AudioUnitSetProperty (kAudioUnitProperty_StreamFormat)

1 4 1

The story sounded interesting, hopefully you'll get it done some day. The music was sometimes higher than voice of the person so the I could not hear the voice. Nice job though

1 2 1

Would have given it a DNW, but was able to get it running by adding pygame.init() to main().

The voice-over was annoying and there was no actual game. But the screen background was pretty.

1 2 1

Just some random person talking is not much of a game. I'm guessing time was an issue in this entry :P