Competition Diary - philhassey

Dynamite Deluxe 1.1

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:42:07 +1000

Thanks to everyone who played my game and made comments! I really enjoyed this contest. I like to polish my games up after these contests, so here's my "if only I had longer" deluxe edition of Dynamite. Some of the changes are from the comments I received.

Website | Source | Windows

The Deluxe Edition includes the following improvements:

improved graphics and engine
2 new gigantic levels
per-level high scores
numerous interface improvements
minor bug fixes
see CHANGES.txt for full details

I hope you enjoy it! I've really enjoyed getting to play everyone's games!

p.s. if your game is pygame based, please add it to www.pygame.org!!

a few additional comments about Dynamite

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:36:10 +1000

Someone was wondering about how this game fit the "power" theme -- it does, from the dictionary:

Power: 3. Strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted; might.
Dynamite: 1. Any of a class of powerful explosives...

So I'm pretty sure dynamite fits the theme.

Someone had some difficulty completing level 1 -- a hint for them: you can hide right next to the pilars, and if you don't move, the guards won't see you (kind of like a spy movie). They can see movement if it is very close at hand though, so don't move until they go by.

Dynamite -- the final version

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 13:44:30 +1000

Story: The evil potentate is ruining everyone's lives! Use the power of dynamite to destroy his strongholds.

Instructions: Detonate dynamite by the blue load bearing pilars to bring down the castles. Watch out for the guards. Hide next to walls, but not too close to guards. Escape via windows.

action packed features:

2 free fonts
3 musical masterpieces
3 training levels
7 sound effects
8 mega-levels
27 psychotic soldiers
32 oldskool isometric tiles
37 sticks of dynamite
243 load bearing pilars
400 free sprites
1862 lines of code
1 big explosion

Downloads: Windows | Source

graphics done, final touches left

Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:43:04 +1000

explosion added
fancy explosion holes added
building falling apart animation added
most sound effects added
several levels added
more animations added
basic menus added

game playable, improved graphics, much to do

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:01:13 +1000

game logic working nicely
tile set looking okay
added some decor
built some levels
have one music track

much remains to do...

All in all, I've been very impressed with the shots that I've seen of over games. Keep up the good work! I can't wait to try out all these games!

coming together

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:37:37 +1000

the game is starting to come together now... no screenshot for tonight, (it would look about the same as last nights), but i added a lot of logic

animated guards, player
use mind control to control guards / player and tell them where to go via mouse clicks on isometric board
pre-set guard marching paths

tomorrow should see a working game and a few basic levels.
thurs -- more levels, play testing, fancier graphics, title, help, etc
fri -- more levels, more play testing, frills
sat -- final wrap up and packaging

good night

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:23:55 +1000

time for bed for me. got a few more things done

added sprites to isometric engine
added minimap display of level
basic player movement
prettier tiles

isometric for all

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:30:54 +1000

it isn't pretty yet, but it's a start.

first screen shot

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:21:57 +1000

the game is going to a mind control / castle / bombs / guards kind of game... whatever that means.

pgu-0.4

Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:45:09 +1000

my apologies, the leveleditor didn't work quite right in 0.3 (the background grid was not being displayed.) this has been fixed. check it out at http://www.imitationpickles.org/pgu/

team photo

Sun, 28 Aug 2005 07:30:11 +1000

be intimidated...

this is TimInge and I. To entertain yourself during the contest, you can download the mp3s of our recent celtic fiddle & banjo album from The Olde Battleaxe website.

pgu-0.3 - better HTML support

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:16:12 +1000

Another pgu release. This one updates the gui system to be easier and more flexible. I decided to do this late release as it won't give me any special advantage for games (the game related modules have not been updated.)

It may be useful to some of you if you want to display some HTML in your games. The HTML module is very easy to use (one line to render HTML to a pygame surface.)

Changes:

Numerous bug fixes
Some gui API changes
Much improved Table and HTML support with CSS2 style borders, padding, and margins

pgu's game modules (tilevid, timer, engine) are particularily good for 2D sprite/tile games. It includes a tile/sprite editor and a level editor. If anyone wants help with pgu, I will be available on freenode.net #pyweek all week.

http://www.imitationpickles.org/pgu/

pgu-1.0 release

Fri, 05 Aug 2005 03:10:30 +1000

With the help of Richard, I've released a repackaged version of my pgu, pgl, and kjv projects. Phil's pyGame Utilities includes a tile and level editor, a full featured gui, and a tile/sprite engine. You can get it at http://www.imitationpickles.org/pgu/