Here is a link to our pyweek team page where you can download our game:
http://www.pyweek.org/e/SDAFF/

There were quite a few entries, all of which are available to download for free. So that's about 50 or so free games. How cool is that?

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*downloads the game*

*edit* I played it - fun game. Especially once I found a hammer...
Never got out of the maze though.

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*edit* I played it - fun game. Especially once I found a hammer...
Never got out of the maze though.

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Well, here's a cheat for you, if you run the game from a terminal window, everytime it creates a new map, the map is printed out into the console in ASCII characters.. You'll have to scroll up a bit to see it, since there are other messages. The ">" represents the starting point for the level, and the "<" represents the gateway to the next level. Some levels are more of a maze than others, you can thank Hanclinto for his awesome random map generator programming powers.

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[This message has been edited by jari (edited April 09, 2007).]

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Hey that's a well done game! I only had time to play to the second level but the game play was good. Rotating the camera felt like part of the challenge.

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Thanks!

Yeah, 3rd person camera systems are always a challenge to get right.

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Shooting, whacking robots over the head, and cutting up robotic hammers with a saber. Gotta love it.

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I found two weapons besides the blaster: a saber and a hammer(after a little searching and fighting).

Shooting, whacking robots over the head, and cutting up robotic hammers with a saber. Gotta love it.

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I didn't realize you can shoot. I thought the hammer is the only weapon. It would've been easier with instructions displayed in the game.

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It would've been easier with instructions displayed in the game.

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There is a README.txt file with the game that explains the controls. Basically, you left click on enemies to attack them, and hit the space bar to switch between your blaster pistol and the melee weapon, if you have one (robots occasionally drop them when they die).

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I didn't realize you can shoot. I thought the hammer is the only weapon.

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There is a hammer?? Well, I see you just have to read the instructions if you want to play using all the features.

@steveth45, 3D cams sure aint easy...

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I had to boot into Windows, and install Python 2.5 (the precompiled Irrthon DLL wouldn't work with Python24.dll, it needed Python25.dll). Well done, Steve! I can't believe that Cohort made so many animated and textured models in such a short amount of time -- that is nothing short of incredible.

My blaster pistol seemed to run out of ammo after a while, so it was a bit stressful when all I had was a dinky sword and my gun would no longer fire. However, I was able to get a steel hammer that lasted me the rest of the game (I guess damage of 100 beats out even the black mantis slasher, which only does 90 damage, though I still would have liked to try it out -- that and the mace). It was a fun game, despite the tedious parts. A minimap would help a ton, and the only way I beat it was by running through the last 13 levels as fast as I could, and following the map that displayed in the console (still, it was really tricky trying to scroll up on that whilst dodging hordes of robots and figure out where you're at and flipping the map in my mind at the same time). Lots of fun -- can't believe you guys did that all in a week! Absolutely incredible.

The game was actually really well balanced as well -- I was really impressed. I was rarely too high or too low on health, and I had a fair bit of control over that, but the game wasn't too easy by any stretch of the word. It was a definite improvement over your last competition game. I'm just still so impressed you were able to do all of that in just one week.

Well done, Steve! Thanks for letting me have a small part in making your random map generator -- it wasn't much, but I'm really happy to see it put into action. In case you're wondering what you can do with my code, you're welcome to relicense it for any purpose that you see fit (for instance, if you wanted to put it in the public domain as an example project for Irrthon or some such thing).

Thanks a lot!

--clint

This competition was really fun, I got to learn blender pretty well. But that doesn't really make me a better coder. I should really start trying to use this programming knowledge I've accrued.

Glad you enjoyed it!

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W00t! I just successfully escaped from Robot Planet.

I had to boot into Windows, and install Python 2.5 (the precompiled Irrthon DLL wouldn't work with Python24.dll, it needed Python25.dll). Well done, Steve! I can't believe that Cohort made so many animated and textured models in such a short amount of time -- that is nothing short of incredible.

My blaster pistol seemed to run out of ammo after a while

It was a definite improvement over your last competition game. I'm just still so impressed you were able to do all of that in just one week.

In case you're wondering what you can do with my code, you're welcome to relicense it for any purpose that you see fit (for instance, if you wanted to put it in the public domain as an example project for Irrthon or some such thing).

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Yeah, Cohort really pumped out the models and animation. He's a machine.

About the running out of ammo thing... There is some bug that makes it so you can't shoot after awhile. Or your character even disappears temporarily when trying to shoot or attack. I also experience severe slow-down after several levels. I can't explain it yet, but I'm guessing that something is going wrong with Irrlicht and the animations or something. Anyways, whatever the bug is, it makes the game less than fun to play after 6 or 7 levels. I found a couple other bugs with Irrlicht during the creation of this project, so I'll be investigating those, too. Eg. createPointEmitter does not work as advertised.

"Irrthon," my quickly hacked together Irrlicht-Python binding needs some attention before being unleashed upon the face of the Earth, plus I need to make sure that the bugs in the game are not the direct result of the Irrthon binding code. I need to encapsulate more of Irrlicht's functionality, as I generally only added those things I needed immediately for the game.

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Great job guys! I can't play it until i get the resolve to install opengl python modules, but it looks pretty sweet.

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You actually don't need those to run this game--I'm not using them. If you have Windows, all you need is Python 2.5. If you have Linux, you need Python 2.5 and Boost 1.33.1, which is available for all the major distributions.

I made a custom Python binding for Irrlicht and included that with the game, compiled for Windows and Linux.

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Wow! Awesome! Great Game!
Calin(and Jari), the hammer is in the far right corner in one of those hammer-bots(I think). the only thing I found wrong with escape is the guy's hair doesn't seem to stay on his head(might just be my computer, though).

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You actually don't need those to run this game--I'm not using them. If you have Windows, all you need is Python 2.5. If you have Linux, you need Python 2.5 and Boost 1.33.1, which is available for all the major distributions.

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I'm using openSUSE with Boost installed and I'm told:

ImportError: libaudiere-1.9.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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I'm using openSUSE with Boost installed and I'm told:
<BLOCKQUOTE><table width=80% border=0 bgcolor="#FFFFF" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2"><TR><TD><font size="3" face="Courier" color="#000000"><pre>ImportError: libaudiere-1.9.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</pre></font></TD></TR></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE>
I'll install libaudiere later...

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Ugh, I should have statically linked everything, now I'm paying the price!

Well, I guess you have to have audiere 1.9.4 installed. That's lame. It's a pretty straight forward install

DL here : http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/audiere/audiere-1.9.4.tar.gz?download

extract, and in the folder type this:

./configure
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I'd like to try the new version of escape from robot planet, but my computer doesnt do .tar.tar or .tar.gz files. could I get a zipped version of it?

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My blaster pistol seemed to run out of ammo after a while

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I'll download it in a bit...

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Check out my crazy sig that I made:

import os, sys, tarfile try: tar = tarfile.open(sys.argv[1] + '.tar.gz', 'r:gz') for item in tar: tar.extract(item) print 'Done.' except: name = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]) print name[:name.rfind('.')], '<filename>'

Copy and paste that into a text editor, save as extractor.py, or whatever, put it into the folder with the tar.gz file. Type this:

python extractor.py Escape-1.3
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C:\Python25\python extractor.py Escape-1.3

Isn't Python cool?

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Though, the Python script that Steve posted is pretty cool too.

--clint

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thanks steveth, but it keeps saying "extractor<filename>".
and yes, Python is cool.

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Hmmmmm, I think I've seen that ground texture before

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I don't know where.

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Actually I saw it before then. If I'm not mistaken I actually made that one for my free texture pack .

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Yeah, we were looking for textures, and I had such a good experience with your free texture pack from the Little Light of Mine game that I did, that I recommended Steve check it out for this one.

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It's so cool to have my stuff actually used. I'm glad somebody is actually doing something with it .

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Before today, I wouldn't have as distinctly known what you meant. I was browsing over at Garage Games this morning and found this blog post. I don't know how many of you remember my post about creating isometric game art, but if you check out my old post, then the one on GarageGames, lemme' know if you see a similarity.

I was just really happy to see my work being used -- it's so neat to see it got the attention of other people. Just the fact that it's being used reinforces in my mind the need for such a resource.

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