Poke

nooooooooooooooooo potato!!!

Check out html5 and webGL... python is a PIA.

There's not a huge replay potential here, but those sound effects and goofy graphics had me laughing out loud, enough to keep me interested anyway. I scored 127.

Sorry, couldn't get it to run. I love the potato with real eyes, though - very funny idea.

tnovelli: Yeah... Python is just what I had to work with. I'm planning to do spend the next four months learning to use something else.

Cosmologicon: There really isn't replay potential, no. xD I had fun making the sound effects, though, so I'm glad you like them. :D

DaveDobson: Sorry to hear that. >_< I'm glad you like the potato eyes, though... that was the idea that led to the game in the first place. xD

Sorry, couldn't get it to run even with Python and Pyglet ><

karsyf: Can you tell me what sort of errors you got?

I'm using python 3...sadly not working... =(

pyglet does not run on Python 3, so it can't work.

Managed to run the game in Windows 7 64 bits after doing a "pip install pyglet" and disabling sounds in "resources.py". Apparently there's a problem with the AVBin library, which pyglet uses to play sounds.
The game: simple, perhaps too simple. This reminds me of an old Windows 3.x game where you have to squash bugs in similar fashion.

could not get it to run on osx sadly

Ah, a fellow Pyglet user.

It works on OS X 10.8.3. You just have to make python run in 32-bit mode, because AVBin does not like 64-bit.

py2app makes it easy to create an executable for Mac.

py2app did not make it easy to create this executable. It failed spectacularly and gave me no errors I could follow as to why.

Any chance you can give instructions how to compile? :) The screenshot caught my attention, I want to play it!

Potato.

hi! i can't get your game to run sorry. downloads for pyglet are down. you should include your dependencies with your release!

ddionisio: If I knew how to make it compile, I would have exe files available for Windows 7 and OSX. :(

sigfig: Oho! That I can do.

Installed pyglet manually, errored with:
pyglet.media.riff.WAVEFormatException: AVbin is required to decode compressed media

Tried downloading pyglet.msi from http://www.pyglet.org/download.html, running says "You must be running Python 2.4 or later". I'm running Python 2.7. Oh well.

orz

This is twisted, but yet so fun :). Hard part was to get it working, but other that that, everything went smoothly.

Is the game is to compile the game ? If yes, it's very challenging, good job !

Seriously, I'm having problem to compile. Here python output :

"Traceback (most recent call last):
File "poke.py", line 3, in <module>
import resources
File "C:\Users\delas_j\Documents\ludumdare\resources.py", line 24, in <module>
ow = pyglet.resource.media("ow.mp3", streaming=False)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pyglet\resource.py", line 610, in media
return media.load(path, streaming=streaming)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pyglet\media\__init__.py", line 1406, in load
source = get_source_loader().load(filename, file)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pyglet\media\__init__.py", line 1387, in load
return riff.WaveSource(filename, file)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pyglet\media\riff.py", line 201, in __init__
'AVbin is required to decode compressed media')
pyglet.media.riff.WAVEFormatException: AVbin is required to decode compressed media"

Fa-fa-fanfare<3

Masadow: You need to install avbin. >_> I forgot about that part.

Mac users may have to run with "arch -i386 python poke.py", possibly using the Python from python.org (not the system Python, which is only 64-bit). Alternatively, you could try distributing with pyglet 1.2alpha.

Anyway, I was thoroughly entertained. :-D

score of 52.

go team potato!

Always move back towards the center before the screen changes. That's the trick to good potato eye popping.

Pros: potatoes! (or, one)
Cons: A bit simplistic.

Python is actually a nice language but in LD being able to deploy to various targets (as well as web) helps a lot. I would recommend Haxe and NME, works like a charm. =)

Potato! Nice game, vey cool great job :D

All the flash-fades from white kinda hurt *my* eyes.

I originally had a mottled blue and white background, but I felt like it didn't mesh with the single-color of the potato and pupil-less eyes. The file is still included in the source distribution because I didn't think to take it out. ^_^;

Don't have Mac OSX

Nice incorporation of a potato. The game was pleasant and short. Not much replay value. The ending fanfare was funny :)