I fixed a bug that showed up when exiting the game (in both the “exit game” command and when you enter the cave (with all puzzles completed). It was a misuse of the exit() that apparently works fine on my Python, but when creating the binary it didn’t work anymore.

I kept the original sources so you can compare what I changed (just 2 lines really, an import sys and a sys.exit(0) instead of just exit()).

I’ll save my post mortem to after I make (off-competition of course) the last area of the game.

Thanks for the compliments on the game.

PSnake

In the past Ludum Dares I always had something from real life interfering. Well, not this time xD

I’ll be using Python+Pygame for a 2D game. And I plan to devote my heart and soul to the 48h compo (I need the raw experience of LD)

All I hope it’s a good theme.

I think I’ll broadcast on uStream my pc monitor. I’ll try to setup something on Friday to see if it works. I’ll also do a time-lapse (in HD xD) that I’ll upload each day to youtube.

Also, Python + Pygame is ready to be used. I still have to look at py2exe, does anyone knows if pygame needs anything special to be done? I want to be pretty confortable with packging the Windows binaries before the start of the compo.

I feel that this LD is going to rock! xD

I agree with the anything goes rule. This enables us to focus on our game design ideas, rather than painfully trying to open a window and making your draw_pixel() function to work with any pixel format (this is kind of a bad example since it’s kinda of trivial, but still reflects my point). But still I have this urge to learn assembly this week and do everything really from scratch 😀 (maybe in the next LD). But this time I’ll use Python + Pygame (nothing else to be kind of midway from low to high level :P).

In my opinion Python has the best productivity and Pygame is really a wrapper to SDL (with some extras) that isn’t a nightmare to cross compile across different OSs. Still both don’t give the edge that Unity, Unreal, etc give so I don’t feel so dirty 😛

Damn, now this assembly idea is stuck in my head. I still want something multi-platform… Oh, I know, NES assembly xD (with my rom running on an emulator)

I’m streaming live from my desktop, so be sure to smile 😛

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blender-tutorials

Good Luck everyone

PSnake

Tags: desktop, stream

After I had one false start: the idea was just too complex to be feasible, I’m returning to square one and restarting everything. I already have an idea (a defense-like game) and think it will be feasible in 12 hours. Time to go coding.