{"author_name":"fallspace","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"February 8, 2009 10:38 am","epoch":1234107480,"text":"the movement is pretty cool, dude; sometimes i sort of wished it was zoomed out a little, but then it would be harder to aim; maybe in an idea world have the camera pan out to always show both snakes?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"February 9, 2009 5:48 am","epoch":1234176480,"text":"its pretty cool to look at, but the play seemed odd, it felt like I wasnt doing very well, but I was winning.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"February 9, 2009 7:43 am","epoch":1234183380,"text":"love the snake movement and the graphical look of the game. it is fun to ‘drive’ the snake. I don’t really understand the whole martini thing. I also thought I had to go and find martini’s on the board. I guess the martini’s are really score? Anyway, I seem to suck at this game because I thought I was hitting the milksnake good but it said I lost every time.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"February 9, 2009 11:54 am","epoch":1234198440,"text":"The snake movement looked really nice but the way it moved the screen didn’t help my headache. I found it rather difficult to control and didn’t manage to win even on easy mode.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"fallspace","time":"February 9, 2009 12:00 pm","epoch":1234198800,"text":"If they didn’t go after the martinis, they would not be serpents but regular snakes, right? I guess the martini mechanic made more sense saturday evening \":)\"","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"DifferentMike","time":"February 10, 2009 3:50 pm","epoch":1234299000,"text":"I liked the look and feel, especially the pause screen. The view would have worked better for me if it were more zoomed out or if the zoom were user-controlled. I did manage to win, though. \":)\"","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"phren","time":"February 12, 2009 11:51 am","epoch":1234457460,"text":"The movement of the snakes was pretty cool but it made controlling the snake pretty hard and it didn’t feel responsive.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1234106040,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"74064","p_author":"fallspace","p_authorkey":"648","p_urlkey":"109896","p_title":"Martini Serpents","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD13","p_time":"1234106040","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"7","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"648","us_name":"fallspace","us_username":"fallspace","event_start":"1228435200","event_key":"92","event_name":"LD13"},"text":"

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Final build. I’ll be honest; I’m an hour late. So, yeah, I spend 49 hours on the game.<\/p>\n

A Windows executable is available here (6Mb).<\/a> Source is included, so if you have Python and pyglet 1.1 installed it should run anywhere.<\/p>\n

Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are 5 martinis in the game. The first sepent to get all 5 wins. The only way to gain martinis is to steal them by attacking the opponent serpent. To attack, simply click with the mouse. After an attack, a period of time must pass before a new attack can be launched. The cusor lights up red when the cooldown is over and the target is within range.<\/p>\n

Edit: Play as the Coral snake, choosing the Milk snake for opponent and go for easy mode, for you first couple of plays.<\/p>\n

-Simon<\/p>\n

Edit: On a development note, I am pleased with the outcome – I’m especially glad I took out a couple of hours to do all the instruction screens and messages. BUT, if I have 1 regret, it is that I didn’t make more serpents to choose from. The framework is there, I just needed to paint some textures and find some fun paramter values. Oh well, that’s the horror of The Deadline for you. \":)\"<\/p>\n \n

Tags: final<\/a>, martini<\/a>, pyglet<\/a>, python<\/a><\/p>","time":"February 8th, 2009 10:14 am","title":"Martini Serpents"}