{"author_link":"\/author\/keyboardmonkey\/","author_name":"keyboardmonkey","author_uid":"26303","comments":[{"author_name":"rfgpfeiffer","author_uid":"7968","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:47am","epoch":1377506520,"text":"greetings, fellow pygame coder!"},{"author_name":"markengley","author_uid":"4575","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:02pm","epoch":1377550620,"text":"Hi, sorry but I can't run this even though I have python installed, I think because it requires pygame.  Is there any way you could have included it in the download?"},{"author_name":"Feysoura","author_uid":"25882","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 10:07pm","epoch":1377554520,"text":"couldn't play it, game crashed!"},{"author_name":"Cthulhu","author_uid":"14665","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:18am","epoch":1377580380,"text":"Game crashed :(\r<br\/>It looked cute."},{"author_name":"TheSambassador","author_uid":"3936","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:22am","epoch":1377580620,"text":"Game looks nice, but you're going to have a hard time getting people to play it when it requires that they have Python AND Pygame installed."},{"author_name":"keyboardmonkey","author_uid":"26303","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:25am","epoch":1377580800,"text":"@markengley, Feysoura &amp; Cthulhu, sorry it did not run. It does use PyGame, I included helpful steps on this above, I will update to include direct links to the installers if this helps."},{"author_name":"ENDESGA","author_uid":"19270","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:26am","epoch":1377580860,"text":"wow, written in Python? that's neat :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>very cool game overall :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>-ENDESGA"},{"author_name":"keyboardmonkey","author_uid":"26303","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 6:21am","epoch":1377584160,"text":"Hi folks. I have tried to create a windows executable but it fails to run. Running via source is still the way to go. Thank you for you time :)"},{"author_name":"doonay21","author_uid":"18952","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 6:29pm","epoch":1377627840,"text":"Fortunately had everything to play this game. Good job! Yet I think Windows executable would give you more ratings. Anyways good luck!"},{"author_name":"keyboardmonkey","author_uid":"26303","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 7:17pm","epoch":1377630720,"text":"I have tried using py2exe on a work pc, however the result did not run.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Tonight I found the pyg project which lets one distribute pygames as one bundle with an exe, however I cannot test this. If anyone can give feedback I would appreciate it! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>The link is: https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/18686471\/microbes\/microbes-LD27-submission.zip - run the included &quot;run.bat&quot; file *fingers crossed*"},{"author_name":"berkano","author_uid":"11027","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 8:16pm","epoch":1377634260,"text":"Loving the XM music! I didn't get all the requirements working yet to run the game, but will try to figure it out."},{"author_name":"local minimum","author_uid":"24765","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 9:04pm","epoch":1377637140,"text":"As a micro biologist I must say I don't fully recognize the microbes, but it's hard not to like the combination of python and microbiology. (I was first pressing WASD, which made the game crash, so you might want to look into that.)"},{"author_name":"Dissing","author_uid":"17718","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 6:10am","epoch":1377669900,"text":"Very nice game. Loved the graphics. But next time please show the time on the screen and not in the shell. The game was way to fast-paced to look both at the game and the shell."},{"author_name":"keyboardmonkey","author_uid":"26303","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:43pm","epoch":1377711480,"text":"berkano, which OS are you running? I tried include thorough steps up above, if those did not work I'd like to find out why and update my steps. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>local minimum, they are mostly imaginary designs ;)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Dissing, the time is actually displayed as a bar underneath your character, but you are right to suggest a numeric display too. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thank you all for the feedback! Appreciated."},{"author_name":"Thermite","author_uid":"27791","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 8:57am","epoch":1377766320,"text":"Nice work for half a day!"},{"author_name":"Latcarf","author_uid":"19457","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 10:06pm","epoch":1377813660,"text":"Good game!"},{"author_name":"Brejlounek","author_uid":"19599","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1377814800,"text":"Good gamplay, 90 here :) Also, make exe!"},{"author_name":"keyboardmonkey","author_uid":"26303","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 6:07am","epoch":1377842520,"text":"Hello all, I have made a 32-bit exe for you Windows folk :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Have fun!"},{"author_name":"keyboardmonkey","author_uid":"26303","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 6:15pm","epoch":1377886200,"text":"@local minimum, thanks for pointing out that crash bug. I have fixed that - luckily the rules say crash fixes are ok. No new content added."},{"author_name":"Rick Hoppmann","author_uid":"10000","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 10:46am","epoch":1377945660,"text":"Was very laggy, even though my hardware was updated recently..\r<br\/>The game mechanic is well known. The audio is ok.\r<br\/>I like the colors used, but not the sprites itself."},{"author_name":"Cosmologicon","author_uid":"1151","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 6:41pm","epoch":1377974160,"text":"Cool. The gameplay is pretty familiar and there's not a lot of variety, but the challenge level and pacing are spot on, so I wanted to replay it a few times. My best score is 133. I thought the music and graphics set a nice creepy mood, and I thought the names that pop up when you press Tab are pretty funny. My main suggestion would be to make it clearer whether I actually eat another microbe."},{"author_name":"ZYXer","author_uid":"20509","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 12:33am","epoch":1377995280,"text":"Not bad for 12 hours! Simple concept, but well implemented and with really cool graphics!"},{"author_name":"manuq","author_uid":"26318","time":"Sep 3, 2013 @ 8:05pm","epoch":1378238400,"text":"Couldn't play it, The traceback is pasted below, it can't find an ubuntu related font.  I think you should add fallback to use another font.  I hope this is useful to you.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Traceback (most recent call last):\r<br\/>  File &quot;microbes.py&quot;, line 286, in &lt;module&gt;\r<br\/>    score_card_image = draw_score_card(score_card)\r<br\/>  File &quot;microbes.py&quot;, line 259, in draw_score_card\r<br\/>    font = pygame.font.Font('UbuntuMono-B.ttf', 16)\r<br\/>IOError: unable to read font filename"},{"author_name":"keyboardmonkey","author_uid":"26303","time":"Sep 7, 2013 @ 7:11am","epoch":1378537560,"text":"manuq, I apologize for that! Added the missing font in the repo, thanks for the feedback!"}],"images":["ld27\/26303-27fb85db25bd3e9e3354506d84ea002d.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/18686471\/microbes\/microbes-LD27-win32.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/wesleywerner\/microbes\/archive\/microbes-fix2-LD27-submission.tar.gz","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/wesleywerner\/microbes","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"23178","g_author":"26303","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"23208","g_title":"Microbes","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"584","g_commentcount":"24","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/26303-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"# Microbes, a life in ten seconds.\r\n\r\nMicrobes was created in half a day for Ludum Dare 27, 2013.\r\nI hope you have fun playing it :)\r\n\r\nIt was a late entry, I spent about 12 hours on this.\r\n\r\n* you are a microbe with a 10 second lifespan.\r\n* eat green\/blue microbes to extend your life.\r\n* avoid red\/pink microbes who steal your life.\r\n* score is determined by the number of seconds you stay alive, plus the amount of microbes you ate.\r\n* two player hotseat for your friends.\r\n\r\n_Added fixes for crash bugs only._\r\n\r\n== For Windows ==\r\n\r\nEverything included in the download\r\n\r\n\r\n== For GNU \/ Linux ==\r\n\r\nRequires Python 2.7 and PyGame.\r\n\r\napt users can simply install with:\r\n\r\n:$ sudo apt-get install python-pygame\r\n\r\nand play with:\r\n\r\n:$ python microbes.py\r\n\r\nPlease substitute your favorite package manager when appropriate :-)\r\n\r\n\r\n== Tools used ==\r\n\r\n* Geany code editor and bash terminal\r\n* GIMP for graphics\r\n* MilkyTracker for music\r\n\r\nResources were created by me, from scratch.\r\n\r\n\r\n== License ==\r\n\r\nThis program is free software: you can redistribute it and\/or modify\r\nit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by\r\nthe Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or\r\nany later version.\r\n\r\nThis program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,\r\nbut WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of\r\nMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the\r\nGNU General Public License for more details.\r\n\r\nYou should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License\r\nalong with this program. If not, see http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/.","title":"Microbes"}