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Posted: March 4, 2008 04:12 pm  | |||
    IRC Nickname: Group: Guests Posts: Member No.: 0 Joined: January 1, 1970 Total Events Attended: 1    | I was recently challenged to a kind of competition by a friend. The challenge was that I have two work weeks, meaning 80 hours to create a fully functional game. I was free to choose my own programming language so I have chosen Python with pygame. No point and click game making programs were to be used, only an IDE and free API's and libraries. Also, This is a game with zero budget, meaning I can't buy my assets or anything, and all assets must either be free or made in free programs. I have decided to make a roleplaying game, the hardest genre you can make but I am doing this because I am already very familiar with the shadowcast universe and I want to continue this game. So without further ado, here are the rules: Rule 1: A limit of two work-weeks (defined as 80 hours) Game Development time should be restricted to 80 total hours. These will be actual game development or research hours. Breaks of longer than ten minutes won't count towards the total time. This will be an "ideal" workweek of 80 highly productive hours. The 80 hours only includes development to a feature-complete "alpha test" stage. Debugging and packaging the game for distribution and won't count towards the development time, but no new features should be implemented. Documentation of the process doesn't count. Rule 2: All Free Tools Except for the software that comes with a Windows install, only free / open-source software tools are used. The point of this whole exercise is to show how you don't need expensive (or even not-so-expensive) tools to develop a game. Hardware such as a scanner, microphone, and digital camera are exempted from this rule – if you don't have these, you can probably borrow them from someone. Rule 3: No Engines, only basic libraries / APIs The game must be created "from scratch" without the benefit of a fully-featured Game Engine. No cheating and creating a game using some kind of "click-and-play" game-maker software to throw together a game. The Tools Code: * Python 2.3 (http://www.python.org/) * PythonWin * PyGame (http://www.pygame.org/) * Py2EXE to compile this into an executable for distribution (http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/) Art: * Gimp 2.0 (http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/) * MS Paint (which comes with Windows) – for pasting up screen shots grabbed by hitting the PrintScreen key (GiMP doesn't like these for some reason) * Free textures available from places like Toob's Tiled Textures (http://www.textureartist.net/textures/index.htm) and Mayang's Free Textures (http://www.mayang.com/textures/) Sound: * Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) plus my microphone or free sound samples I will be documenting my every step with an hour to hour diary. Later I will update with my schedual (Or planned schedual anyway.) Here is the progress page. -------------------- | ||
Posted: March 4, 2008 04:15 pm | |||
  IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 | Are you allowed assistance? Because you know I'm in... and I'm hoping you'll change your mind about Shadowcast and make it a long term project again. --------------------  | ||
Posted: March 4, 2008 04:20 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Guests Posts: Member No.: 0 Joined: January 1, 1970 Total Events Attended: 1 | Yes I'm allowed assistance. Probably once this challenge is over I will have the time again to pick up shadowcast full time. Then we just have to get a new team together. =) Glad you're still with me buddy. -------------------- | ||
Posted: March 4, 2008 04:22 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 | Alright, will I see you on the Grimson forums? If you plan to use the Grimson forums... I just defavourited it today... tough luck. May I have it again if you plan to use it? -------------------- | ||
Posted: March 4, 2008 04:23 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Guests Posts: Member No.: 0 Joined: January 1, 1970 Total Events Attended: 1 | Here it is. See you there. -------------------- | ||
Posted: March 4, 2008 05:38 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Spicy63 Group: Emeritus Posts: 785 Member No.: 50 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 0 | Was this the game you and Gene were working on where the main part of the game were based on the Power of Music? If so, I'd highly encourage you to read a series, the first of the books being called 'Rhapsody' It matches that game perfectly and is a great read. --------------------   | ||
Posted: March 9, 2008 06:37 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Guests Posts: Member No.: 0 Joined: January 1, 1970 Total Events Attended: 1 | The intended schedule. Schedules are made to be broken, but it's important to have them as a baseline to compare your progress with and make corrections as necessary. Hour 1-20: Basic Architecture Design the "engine" and the main components. Get the world displaying on the screen. I should be able to move a 'test player' around the world to look at things. In fact, I should allow the "test player" to be turned into a full-on editing tool if I can swing it. Hour 21-40: Player Interaction Implement all core interactivity for the player – moving around, attacking things, opening doors, dying, picking up and using inventory. Bare-Bones representative objects in the environment will be created to test the interactivity Hour 41-60: Making the World Active Add the AI, game "events", traps, and special effects. By the end of this period, the game should be a pretty complete tech-demo of all of the game's major features. Hour 61-80: Adding Content and Rules Take the project from "tech demo" to game. Add all additional content. Complete and balance the game-play mechanics. Apply polish where time permits – adding special effects, animation, etc. Post-Hour 80: Testing and Game Release Fix bugs (no adding features!) Package up the game and release it. Finish documentation. -------------------- | ||
Posted: March 10, 2008 01:32 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 | Excellent. I should have a set of music and sounds ready in a few days. -------------------- | ||
Posted: March 10, 2008 02:16 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Mr Glennfase Group: Emeritus Posts: 3064 Member No.: 39 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 220 | Sounds awesome dude. Way over my head haha. -------------------- That's Mr. Glennfase to you. Ex-Warlord/Council  | ||
Posted: March 10, 2008 02:16 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | Good luck!  --------------------  | ||
Posted: March 11, 2008 03:08 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Sum41xx Group: Emeritus Posts: 630 Member No.: 102 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | Hey am i still in on that project from the graphic designing?  lol, i thought that project had just been forgotten in the sands of time. --------------------   Proud WG member since December 2003 | ||
Posted: March 13, 2008 09:22 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Guests Posts: Member No.: 0 Joined: January 1, 1970 Total Events Attended: 1 | It had been forgotten a little but I dug it up again. I missed working with you guys. Sum, can you do sprites and such or just banners and sigs? I forget. Anyway, Here is the progress page, I will be using this for documentation and to track my progress. -------------------- | ||
Posted: March 13, 2008 10:51 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Sum41xx Group: Emeritus Posts: 630 Member No.: 102 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 |
I can make sprites, although it's not my perfection so it would take a little longer for me to make them, but definitely can if i put the time and effort into it. -------------------- Proud WG member since December 2003 | ||
Posted: March 14, 2008 03:05 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Guests Posts: Member No.: 0 Joined: January 1, 1970 Total Events Attended: 1 | Sounds great Sum. As you can see, I have used the banner you created ages ago for the forum banner, it looks great. I have started documenting my progress, so far I have used two hours to learn that I didn't know enough about classes so now I've gone into serious research mode. -------------------- | ||
Posted: March 14, 2008 05:07 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Groedius Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1556 Member No.: 99 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 256 | Best of luck mate. Maybe if i had taken up ICT with games design for my course instead of software i would be able to help you more lol. Right now im only really familiar with HTML, CSS, and Pascal. I can maybe help out with art work if you need it. --------------------   | ||
Posted: April 17, 2008 02:32 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Guests Posts: Member No.: 0 Joined: January 1, 1970 Total Events Attended: 1 | Just a small update. I put the game on hold for a while because I went away a little from programming to my new passion, 3D graphics but I'll try and see if I can squeeze in an hour or so today. I completed hour 3 and got classes to work and everything. -------------------- | ||
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