pyweek 8

General Discussion
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… is next week, with theme voting now. See http://pyweek.org if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

Thought I’ld mention it here - its a good opportunity for some of you to practise using Panda 3D under insane time constraints, and show off to the rest of the python game community what panda can do:-) Am hoping to give it a shot myself (As a solo entry.), though time will be against me, and I’ll probably end up with nothing. Still, will be worth it for the craziness.

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i’ll be there as always.

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I’ll be joining PyWeek but I’m already committed as an artist to another team that won’t be using Panda. If we do finish early-ish, I’ll try to come up with something although its not very likely.

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So, did anyone submit an entry? I did - you can find mine here - http://pyweek.org/e/Wibble/ Its kinda fun, very processor intensive though - my AI just does too many calculations per entity, which is a problem when you have almost 450 of them. (I put up a lite version as well, which should work on lower end hardware.)

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great idea and very nice implementation lethe.

i got the feeling that the movement physics (ai-controls) could be improved. they swing to much when trying to reach a location. so i’ve tried to play a bit with the code and figured that the targSpeed in bobbles allways seems to be at the limits.

while it makes the movements quite a bit slower i felt this calculation method makes it a bit more controllable:

targSpeed = targDist / 5.0
targSpeed = min(targSpeed,self.targSpeed)

i think the dt is not necessairy when calculating the desired velocity.

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Thanks:-) I think your probably right that I overcomplicated it, especially considering how much frame time it eats up. However, once I saw the policemen moving around such that they look drunk I decided not to ‘fix’ it and leave it as is - makes everything look that much more chaotic, and makes keeping the line an actual challenge. I just prefer the chaos basically:-P

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very nice showcase - hard to keep that ‘kettle’ cool but it’s am amazing minigame - I tried the lite version and found very well balanced and entertaining - I guess much more protesters and policemen should not add very much to the gameplay.
PS: the challenge is ended and the website states “winners announced” but don’t see the list.

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Yeah, the lite version is just as much fun as the full version - the full version just looks more like a protest, more chaotic. Well, that and whilst I can (just) complete the normal version on hard I’ve been unable to do so on lite - I removed more policemen by ratio than protesters…

The competition has ended but winners should not be announced until Sunday week - there is two weeks during which all entrants get to play and judge the games, the winner is then decided based on their ratings. This means I am morally obliged to play though more than 50 games over the coming weeks. The horror, oh, the horror… :smiley: