The archive contains both source and a win32 exe (Which will hopefully work)
EDIT: The exe in the archive didn’t work. I’ve recompiled it and uploaded a separate win32 version. The fonts are slightly messed up in the win32 version compared with running from sources but it works.
if you have a better server and can host it for me, please tell me in the comments.
The player controls a group of ships that try to shoot down the opposing ships. The controll is done entierly with the mouse.
Both the graphics and control scheme can be concidered minimalistic I hope. At least that’s what I was going for. :)
Here are the final screenies:
Lots of ships shooting each other up.
The shop between levels where you buy new ships.
The intro sequence.
There is a readme file in the archive with info about controls and stuff.
The game was made with python + pygame (also requires numarray) and absolutely everything else was created from scratch.
Big thanks to:
* Jach for helpingwith the win32 compile
* DrPetter for sfxr
* Jenny, my lovely GF for not going crazy with me. :)
I get the MSVCR71.dll error (I got this on a few others too, but it still seems to run for them) and then: File "mainuildmainout1.pyz/pygame", line 52, in __getattr__ otImplementedError: surfarray module not available/ I'll try again when there is a v1.2?
Traceback: File "spacebattle.py", in line 10, in <module> File "ai.pyc", line 1, in <module> File "gamesprites.pyc", line 429, in <module> File "gamesprites.pyc", line 426, in rotateSprite File "utils.pyc", line 85, in loadGfxTeam File "pygamesurfarray.pyc", line 163, in pixels3d ValueError: unsupport bit depth for 3D reference array
"Hooray" for Rapidshare. Holy crap, I have never seen a captcha that annoying. I already hate your game and it hasn't even finished downloading yet!
The windows version didn't include the readme, that I could find. And I'm not going back to rapidshare to get the other one!
Anyway, on to the actual game! I guess what I think is that I like it a lot, except I really hate how it actually plays. Steering the ships is crazy (and when they're heading down, it's very confusing). I got to the second battle (he had a cruiser, I didn't... sad), and it devolved into a whole lot of both of us going offscreen and popping back on for a moment before going away again, until he finally cruisered me away.
So I like the ships and having them battle it out. I wish there was a better way to make them do so.
I'm getting the "Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault" too... ... I got further, after installing numpy, now I get this (pasting the end of the traceback) File "C:Documents and SettingsStephenDesktopld11final irpenspacebattle- ld11-1.1utils.py", line 88, in loadGfxTeam
if a[i,j,:] != [0,0,0]: ValueError: The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous. Use a.any() or a.all()
the latest win32 exe still didn't work for me. Got that MSVCR71 error others were getting and then a whole bunch of warnings and errors that eventually seemed to end in that __GETATTR error I saw someone else had. I'm on fairly standard winxp.
After installing python and pygame now I get the following errors: "Fatal Pyhton error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault"
Same problems as sgstair. Also seems like you're missing packages from the win32 release since it throws different errors than running from the source.
Didn't work for me in Windows, had to play it in Linux. And that captcha is whack. Anyways, the game is pretty slow paced, and the controls are annoying. It seemed to me like gunships might be overpowered. Not sure about that though, but they just require the least amount of maneuvering. With some better controls the game could be a lot of fun I think.
I also got the MSVCR71.dll could not be extracted error, but I just ran it with python.