As you can tell by some of my recent entries, I’ve been busy with 30-minute drawing competitions. They’re a lot of fun. 
And as for bigger news, I’ve entered the Ludum Dare game development competition warm-up (Ludum Dare 8.5) where entrants are required to create a full fledged game within 24 hours over this past weekend. The competition is very similar to Pyweek, with the exception (of course) that you don’t get a whole week.
The themes to choose from were ‘anti-textmode’ and ‘the moon’, so I created a moon buggy game where you must travel across the treacherous moon landscape in safety. It was the first time working by myself in a game development competition, so I’ve learned quite a bit about the process, and I’m very happy with the resulting game that came out of it.
I’ve still got some bugs to work out and some polish to add to my entry, after which I’ll be releasing it to the general public here.
Another Ludum Dare entrant created a web application, called Imageboard.net. I just wanted to mention it here, as it is absolutely hilarious and fun to use. Basically it’s an anonymous messageboard that deals not with text, but with small pixelated images. There’s even an option to play back an animation from the contents of a forum thread! 
NOTE: I should warn that since the board is anonymous, some not-so-mature people post offensive things. So, please be careful when visiting.
Here’s an example of a thread I started that someone else responded to:
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Have a great day, interweb people.
Art / Drawings, Game Dev, Personal
The judging phase of Pyweek is over.
I’m happy to report that my team (ThreeLittlePygs) ended up in a 4-way tie for 4th place in overall average ratings (score of 3.4 / 5.0), as well as 4th place in Production values (score of 4.0 / 5.0)
Our game is called ‘Search for the Red Herring‘, so take a look if you’re curious.
I’m very happy with the results, and quite honestly wasn’t expecting to do so well. :D It was great fun, and I encourage anyone interested in the rapid creation of games in a fun environment to participate in the next Pyweek!
Oh! I almost forgot… I now have all of the interesting art assets from the game available here on my website, so go take a look.
Cool Link of the Day:
- Line Rider! Draw lines and then a little guy on a sled will ride on them. Cool fun wow!
Game Dev
I have participated in the 3rd Pyweek! I joined “Team Roebros” aka “ThreeLittlePygs” and created all the artwork for the game The Search for the Red Herring. Of course, I’m releasing all of the artwork under a free license for everyone to use. I’ll be adding it to my game art gallery page in the very near future.
In addition, I’ve written a couple Python utilities that I think some people might find useful, so when I have a spare moment, I’ll put them up on my website as well. (Under the good ol’ GPL of course!)
Some links for you:
- Nintendo Wii. Everyone’s talking about it. I’m totally going to get one!
- If you have any python experience or spriting experience and would like to contribute to a cool opensource project, the GalaxyMage tactical RPG project would love to have you!
- After a long period of inactivity, it appears that someone has picked up the SuperTuxKart project!
Game Dev, Personal
