Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD35 → polyAgonY
By raffitz
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation | 621 | 2.87 | ||
| Coolness | 1902 | 28 |
Yeah it's a pretty hard concept in general, but also it's difficult to distinguish between some of the shapes and color. Green and cyan I had trouble with, as well as hexagon and heptagon. I think it would be more fun limited to just 2 or 3 of each. Or maybe it could ramp up in difficulty over time. Still, creative and simple idea.
Is it possible to compile it, so players would not need python to play?
I would need a Windows environment in which to compile it, and that is not available to me right now :(
The windows version doesn't have an exe or anything to play it.
Windows 10
D:\LD_GAMES\35\polyAgonY\LD35-master>python -V
Python 3.4.1
D:\LD_GAMES\35\polyAgonY\LD35-master>python game.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "game.py", line 3, in <module>
import pygame
ImportError: No module named 'pygame'
Couldn't play on windows :(
I agree with Cosmologicon on the part that it is difficult as a theme. Really nice try though I really liked the detailed instructions. Keep going :)
Interesting game mechanic, but it was very hard since there were so many (small) things on the screen at once. Definitely a good concept, just needs some tweaking.
Can you upload a video of the game? I really don't want to install python lol, but I still want to see it!
I have python, but I'm not familiar enough with the python ecosystem to know what to do after "pip install pygame" failed with a stack trace and "cannot import name HTTPSHandler". Please include your dependencies in your zip!
It's really too bad the player has to know how to use python to play this. This is one of my favorite uses of the theme so far. That said, I agree that the smaller shapes are really hard to distinguish -- some of the colors are too close together and higher numbers of sides are also difficult. Fullscreen doesn't really alleviate the latter issue, either, because the sprites are low resolution and everything just ends up looking like pixels when you're zooming around.
I tried to compile it for you but I don't know what versions you used so it didn't have everything it needed to run.
However, if anyone wants to give it a try then download python 2.7, and pygame 1.9.1 and it will run.
Kept not being able to find pygame even though it's installed (OS/X). Seems like a cool concept.
I was able to run python 3.2, pygame 1.9.2 Windows 10. So it is possible.
Cool ikaruga style concept. It's be nice if there were more of a ramp up and the direction vector was larger ( maybe a bit alphaed out to show it wasn't a part of the game. )
It's quite a nice spin on the agar.io style of games. As others have said, though, it's hard to distinguish the small shapes. For an easier introduction into the concept, it would've also been nice to have maybe only one color and two or three shapes and then to gradually increase the number of different shapes/colors.
Perhaps some instructions on how to play would be in order?
Same. Sadly I couldn't play this.