CHICKEN CHICKEN

Well, here it is. It's 4:15am here in New Zealand, and I'm all typed out. Just a quick few instructions and I'm done. This is my first entry to any sort of game competition. I hope you all like it. Apologies for the complete lack of sound - I just ran out of time! I really should have picked a 3d toolkit that had *documentation*... Nice physics, though.


INSTRUCTIONS

Run chicken.py to get started.

Chicken Chicken is a very simple game for two players. You each want to get your little man in the car as far as possible on the grass, but without tipping him into one of the red pits. Player one uses the LEFT SHIFT KEY. Player two uses the RIGHT SHIFT KEY.

Hold your key to build up power (see, it does fit in with the theme after all!). You'll see your yellow bar go up. When you think you've stored enough power, release your key. The game will wait for the other player to finish too, and both the buggies will zoom off.

The game plays a best-of-three round, and starts again. There's a few different levels and items, which it'll use at random. Press Q or ESCAPE when you're done.


REQUIREMENTS

To play Chicken Chicken you'll need Python (of course) and Soya3d 0.10.1, which you can find here:
http://home.gna.org/oomadness/en/soya/index.html

Soya has a few requirements itself, but fortunately, all-inclusive Windows installers are available at:
http://thomas.paviot.free.fr/soya/

My development machine is a humble Pentium III 677 with a Matrox G400 and 512Mb of RAM. In other words, I'm sure you'll be fine if your system was made in the last four years or so. (I'm looking forward to testing this out on the Athlon in my lounge tomorrow.)


FUTURE

I'll definitely package this up as a Windows executable in the near future. If someone wants to make Mac or Linux packages for me too, that'd be great!


CONTACT

Please do contact me at tim@upperorbit.com and tell me what you think.
Also check out www.upperorbit.com to see my major, proper game-in-the-works (it ain't done in Python, though, sadly. I hadn't heard of Python when I started it!).