Re: [pygame] PyWeek #4 in April!

["Ben Woodhead" <benwoodhead@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well put Patrick,

1 week is a lot of time to doing something amazing. Just got to have 
something amazing to start with.. :) The games I used pygame for was 
something so simple, was 3 ships and frogs jumping off the ships and a canon 
that could shoot frogs based on the 3 possible directions of the cannon. 
Simple right, well they gave me a compass, a gps and a hand help computer so 
thats what I came up with. You turn or move and shoot the damn frogs or turn 
and put out fires.. People had tons of fun playing them, took me like a week 
to develop all 3 games and I had never used pygame before in my life but it 
worked on my hand held and was a 2d engine. :)

Later, Ben


> From: "Patrick Mullen" <saluk64007@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [pygame] PyWeek #4 in April!
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:39:32 -0800
>
> The problem with this, and it has been discussed before, is that those who
> have extensive (internal, or even external but not well documented or
> supported) libraries start off with a huge advantage over those who come
> into it fresh.  There are quite a few pretty extensive libraries that are 
> in
> fact allowed, and you can use your own library as well if you document it,
> release it well in advance of the contest, and get it approved.  I've been
> working on a massively multiplayer game for a year and a half.  Now I'm
> going to take that, put in some models that fit the theme, and call it a
> day.  Not so good...
>
> The idea of the contest is sort of to put everyone on a level playing 
> field,
> and allow freedom of experimentation.  I don't know about some people, but
> when I am limited on time I tend to come up with very unique code design
> that I don't often use in my full projects, sometimes I even learn 
> something
> from it besides just having a good time :)
>
> A week really is enough time to accomplish some great things or at least a
> great start to a new project.  More time than that and it's too easy to put
> things off or have feature creep really set in, less time is just too
> rushed; although that's an experience in itself.

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