Weatbag is a funny name, in the best ever way :)Yeah, this sounds like a interesting idea.
Where each person can create a different module for a separate part of the game world.
I think the reddit group tried a couple of collaborative games too.
I'm pretty sure minecraft came about as part of this idea of a collaborative game.
At the time there was a python game where people could also write bots that would battle each other.
Yeah, could lord.mauve be convinced to do such a game in pyweek?
Pretty fun idea IMHO.
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But the direction I was thinking of was more in the line of the Blender short films (open projects).
This would be a commercial project funded by either a publisher, crowd funding, grants, or some combination of these.
The team would be made up from people in the pygame community. A pyweek/ludumdare winner as programmer and designer, a musician (hopefully someone using pygame to make music!), a gfx artist(again someone using pygame), someone working on pygame tools to support the production, and perhaps someone working on project management and marketing.
In the same way as the Blender open short film projects work, pygame development by the tools programmer would be driven by the games needs, and then these improvements would be available for other people using pygame. Also, the resulting game should hopefully be of higher quality than other productions. And of course it would be an open project (transparent, and the results released as FLOSS).
On Tuesday, August 21, 2018, Thomas Kluyver <
takowl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks René,
I think there's a lot of interesting ideas in your message. One in particular that caught my attention:
It could be pretty Epic to have some sort of 'pygame community game'.
A few years back, I tried to make a collaboratively developed text adventure game which I called Weatbag, for 'Written by everyone all together, the big adventure game'. It didn't really go anywhere, but I learned that the idea wasn't new - people called such games Multi-User Dungeons, or MUDs. I still think it could be a really fun idea, and I'd be interested to see it extended to a game with simple graphics.
The idea with Weatbag was that the user could move between squares on a NESW grid, with the information about each square stored in a separate module. Any square which didn't already exist could be claimed by submitting a pull request to add something there. I wonder if it would be possible to do something similar with a graphical game? Maybe with a collection of sprites and textures to use so people could compose a simple scene without having to create new artwork?
Maybe this could be a fun project for a future pyweek or something - put together enough of a game to be playable, and build a framework for outside contributors to easily extend the game after the contest.
Thomas