PyWeek - Untitled Team (2) (3) - feedback

The game could not run. Here is the error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 255, in <module>
pygame.key.set_repeat(500, 75)
pygame.error: video system not initialized

The music was cool! I've never played this style of game so I didn't really understand what was going on or what I was supposed to do though.

It's very difficult to figure out what to do, and the menus for choosing what your characters do are quite hard to navigate. The colour scheme is quite pretty, and the music is good, though. I think this would have been good given more time.

The raycasting works Ok - but not super well; ladders and doors are visible through walls. Still, it was technically impressive.

Menu-driven combat and character set-up is pretty laborious when all I wanted to do was get started. Probably better to give me some random characters.

In terms of play I only really "got" some of the mini-games and somehow I completely failed to attack anything.

well, a ton of dependencies (okay, easy to install with pip, but still) and a game I could not make sense of. Not sure, maybe its just not my type of game, but I could not figure out what to do. The mini games seems to be a nice idea, but not sure what they actually did (I had no feedback if I succeeded or not)

Also, why package huge exes into the zip? I mean 150 MB is a bit big!
musicplaye.zip ~27MB
musictester.exe ~19MB
main.exe ~35MB

These 3 files make more than half of you entire zip! Are they really needed?

Maybe other people got this working, but it had numerous problems I tried to debug and wouldn't start.

Game crashes when running:
File "main.py", line 255, in <module>
pygame.key.set_repeat(500, 75)
pygame.error: video system not initialized

I have the right version of pygame: running on osx.

Had to faff about to make this game work on Linux. Please check cross platform compatibility next time... thank you! :-)

A very cool 3d maze effect and funky music. Not sure the textual D&D like combat system integrated that well with the graphical explorer parts of the game. I wasn't really sure what on earth I was supposed to do and the WSAD controls were very sensitive for me on Linux (making navigating hard). Perhaps that needs some tightening up / play testing..?

Interesting game. I really liked the music. I'm personally really not a fan of this kind of text-based adventure, and I think the FOV was too low and the controls too unresponsive to make it satisfying to traverse the dungeon. I also didn't really get the traffic light-based combat system.

On linux it errors:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 258, in <module>
g = GameState()
File "main.py", line 98, in __init__
self.mainwin = gfx.MainWindow(self.camera)
File "/home/momojohobo/Temporary/oldhomes/september/wiz/gfx/__init__.py", line 103, in __init__
self.window_surface = win = pygame.display.set_mode(TARGET_RESOLUTION)
pygame.error: directx not available

A lot of python devs don't use windows.

So I tried to run on WINE, which starts but the game-screen (the raytracing part) was just a solid white rectangle.

A real shame because I'm a huuuuuge fan of games of this kind and was really looking forward to play it!

I'm on Linux Mint (Linux 4.10.0-38-generic #42~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 10 16:32:20 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux).

Here's the error I got:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 255, in <module>
pygame.key.set_repeat(500, 75)
pygame.error: video system not initialized

The retro style combined with the 3D maze was very neat and strangely fitting. All in all great job of accomplishing this in just one week.

I usually don't play much RPGs and or dungeon crawler, so I'm really not qualified to judge whether it is good or not in its genre. What I can say is that it feels a little complicated and hard to keep track on what you did, when it gets executed, which stats do what. I would've liked it to be a little easier to get a grasp of, but I can only talk for me in that regard.

I wasn't able to run it, I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 255, in <module>
pygame.key.set_repeat(500, 75)
pygame.error: video system not initialized