PyWeek — April 2011 — Nine Times — entries

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The aim of citySquare is to match up the tiles from the tray on the right on the grid as best as is possible in a given amount of time. Points are awarded for completed cities (the somewhat poorly drawn orange bits) and roads. They are however taken away if the city or road is incomplete.

Also note that scoring is skewed to give more points to large cities, so you should really be trying to make your cities as large as possible within the time limit. Finally, ensure that all of your tiles match up, and that any tiles touching the edge of the grid are grass, any invalid ignored for scoring purposes, don't waste those tiles!

Incidentally the easiest grid in the game is 3x3 meaning 9 tiles. And goes up to the nightmarishly difficult end of the spectrum where you will have a 9x9 grid. (yes it did drift from the theme a bit)

The controls are fairly straightforward, click a tile to pick it up click again to drop it. Dragging and dropping will not work, you actually have to click and let go.

Tiles can be rotated by right-clicking them or by by picking up a tile and scrolling. All of the tiles currently on the grid can be shifted around using the arrow keys. To view a breakdown of your score so far you can press hold tab.

And finally the pause menu can be accessed by pressing escape while in game

You control the ball that can change it's size nine times. The bigest size is nine times the small size.

Use left and right arrows to roll. Use up and down arrows to grow and shrink. Use R to retry level.

"we lost the lion"

This is the first game of Forked Tail team.
Game talks about Pluto, that has been considered the Solar System's ninth planet from its discovery (1930) until 2006, when it has been downgrade to "dwarf planet".
Pluto is not agree with this decision, and he challanges other planets within Solar System to show he is worthy of being a real planet. The challanges are based on planets main quality (speed of Mercury, charm of Venus, greenery of Earth, etc..).

Original project included a final level challanging the Sun, but unfortunately we didn't have time to complete it.
Enjoy the game!

Note: an unexpected supporter is secretly pulling for Pluto's crusade. Did you find it? It is very close to us...

Nine clocks, Nine "times", One player...

Take part in this epic quest for points today!

Complete with vector graphics, green color and InstaPause technology!

Also features some redundant code that I forgot to remove.

adrwen

Loopback: The core is under attack! You must defend the core from a host of invading enemies. Ultimately, the number of enemies arriving during the forty-five seconds of the game is far too many to take on; fortunately, you can travel back through time to rejoin yourself in fighting off the attackers, eventually weathering the assault a total of nine times. It features retro graphics incorporating several of your favourite geometric shapes and the ability to fight alongside eight past copies of yourself amidst a hundred-strong horde of exploding invaders.

Fractured Soul, by Team Multiverse Factory

Note to judges: I recommend playing at least through Act 2 (40% of the game complete) before judging the game.

Google project page

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Forever End is about the aftermath of a devastating impact by a mysterious artifact, which fractured time in three areas of the planet. In each level, three time periods are starting to merge together, and you must shift between them to reach your goal of finding pieces of the mysterious artifact, and uncover what it was that crashed into Earth.

Throughout the game, you'll have to figure out how to make use of the conditions and items of each time period to accomplish your goals and progress through the level. It's like an old-style game where you must explore and figure it out. The game will not tell you what to do.

Each time period is meant to have its own atmosphere, while staying in the theme of the level (though, there is much room for improvement here). You'll see fluctuations from the time distortions as parts of the other time periods flicker in and out of your active time period. This brings a sort of frantic atmosphere to the game as you know things "just aren't right."

This is a solo entry, and my first PyWeek!

Instructions:

• Solve levels by platforming and using items across time periods.
• In each level, there's a flotaing yellow artifact you need to pick up.
• Arrow keys to move, space bar to jump/hover.
• Shift activates the tractor beam to pick up items.
• 1, 2 and 3 keys for shifting to alternate time periods in the same level.

There are a few debug modes:

• F2 - Coordinates and FPS.
• F3 - Bounding boxes and event boxes.
• F4 - God mode. Cannot die, and can fly forever.
• F5 - Switch to next level.

During her travels through feudal Japan, Nanji the Ninja discovered a mysterious building with unknown signs and runes on it which she does not understand. But what she does understand is the piece of paper glued on the massive stone door, clearly depicting a tuna.

Accompany Nanji in her quest to obtain the Nine Ninjat Clan Signets seemingly required to open the massive door hiding the probably biggest tuna stash in Ninjat history.