The Grass is Always Greener

The Grass is Always Greener

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overall: 3.00
fun: 3.00
innovation: 3.14
theme: 3.00
graphics: 3.43
audio: 3.43
humor: 3.00
mood: 3.29

Description


Small World, Small Window Context (sorry 4K folks), Small game

Short, 2D platformer featuring a hungry mountain goat forever seeking greener tastier grass.

Links


Source Code

Windows Download

Controls


E - Eat
A - Left
D - Right
Space - Jump
ESC - Exit the game (the game will also close by itself at the end)

Tools


Language: Python 3.5.2
Libraries: Pygame, Pyinstaller
Art: Gimp
Sound: Audacity

Sounds


Wind: Put the microphone under my chin - used blowing and whistling noises
Goat Grunt: Me attempting a manly grunt
Boulder collision: Jamming my fist into a box of honeycomb cereal
Eating: Obnoxiously eating honeycomb cereal

Short Post Mortem


Had a late start so I didn't make the 48 hour competition. I had to take a lot of shortcuts so everything became much smaller than what was originally planned. There are a few collision bugs. I need to spend some time working outside of these competitions to refine this skillset. All in all I'm pretty happy with the result.

Thank you to everyone who played The Grass is Always Greener!

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