Entries in PyWeek — Number 5

To play the games listed here, you will probably need to install Python (typically 2.4+), PyGame (1.7+) and PyOpenGL (2.0+). Some games have additional requirements - check their README. Windows users downloading the windows versions of games don't need to install anything.

To download all the games, please use the torrent.

3 Hour Game (3Hours)
3HourGame.zip — First and final entry. (36.33 Kbytes on 2007/09/09)
Last 3 hours of PyWeek, and I'm making a second entry.
555-BOOM! (greg_pw5)
5B-0.6-Windows.zip — Postcomp Release - Windows (3.88 Mbytes on 2007/09/25)
5B-0.6-Linux.tar.gz — Postcomp Release - Linux (3.14 Mbytes on 2007/09/25)
5B-0.6-MacOSX.dmg — Postcomp Release - MacOSX (5.86 Mbytes on 2007/09/25)
5B-0.6-Source.zip — Postcomp Release - Source (981.21 Kbytes on 2007/09/25)
5B-0.4.zip — 5B-0.4 final (667.69 Kbytes on 2007/09/09)
5B-0.5.zip — 5B-0.5 final (668.60 Kbytes on 2007/09/09)
5B-0.3.zip — 555-BOOM! Version 0.3 (817.33 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
5B-0.2.zip — 555-BOOM! Version 0.2 (807.42 Kbytes on 2007/09/07)
5B-0.1.zip — 555-BOOM! version 0.1 (800.98 Kbytes on 2007/09/06)
The year is 1973. A madman with a grudge against telephone companies, calling himself THE TYGER, is planting bombs in telephone exchanges across the country, wired so he can set them off with a phone call.

Your task is to take the TWINKLE out of the Tyger's eye by tracing the connections through the TWISTED and tortuous circuits of the softly TICKING exchange equipment, and finding a way to disarm the bombs before time runs out.

Only you can save the country's vital communications infrastructure from being thrown into TURMOIL...

Note: The screen shot at right is NOT the last level any more, but screen shot uploading doesn't seem to be working at the moment.

7 Zombies (santa_fe)
twisted-zombie-1.0.zip — Final version of Twisted Zombie (5.39 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)

Video: Have you tried it? No yet? You can see a video of the game.
News: There is also a Windows package (do not need to isntall python or pygame).
Media: All music and graphics in Twisted Zombie were originally created for this challenge.
From: Santa Fe, Argentina.
Angels Fall First (aff)
IronAngelsFinal.zip — IronAngelsFinal (42.35 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)


we plan to make a 3d space shooter like xwing or wing commander.

Our team:
Treeform(team leader)
strangelet(art director)
Daemoria(concept)
KrisWood(art)
faxmaster(art)
Hex Decimal(python)
LegionDD(panda3d)
Cevius(art)
Dreamwalker(art)
Oblivion(art)
ikarus(art)
Sargoth(pr)
xybre(music)
TenjouUtena(panda3d)
evillejedi(art)
Phifty(writer)
TopDoozer(c++)
Army of Aerojockey IV (aerojockeyIV)
DNAReplicator-1.3-src.zip — DNA Replicator, Python Source Distribution (247.83 Kbytes on 2007/09/09)
Missed the start. Have a good, if not original, idea. 3D.
Aurora Fighter (arbacamarbalap)
aurora.zip — aurora final (31.48 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)

Fly the twisted tunnels of different planets as the royal courier! Avoid hitting civilians while blasting hostile ships to bits! Be the best pilot of the Aurora Fighter in the galaxy!

You can see some Release notes for our game describing installation and some known issues.

Aurora screenshot

Have fun!

B.L.O.C.K: Look Out; Can't Kick (BLOCK)
BLOCK.zip — THE FINAL VERSION? (5.15 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
Game 3 in the epic awesome block game saga.
Ball Twister (papukaija)
papukaija - balltwister.zip — Balls! Twisting! (33.89 Kbytes on 2007/09/09)
This is not really a game. Didn't have enough time and/or a good idea. While I was pondering about ideas, I made this neat little thing though. Maybe you'll enjoy it.
Batwima Islands (_trobadour_)
Batwima Islands.zip — my final package fo pyweek 5 (431.42 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
Far away behind the horizon lies the archipelago of batwima. A collection of small beautiful islands floating around some twisting maelstrom(s). But not long ago an earthquake disturbed the eternal balance and now the islands are in danger to get sucked deep down beneath the water surface. Help the peaceful islanders to safe their homes and restore the balance of batwima.

Your islanders are scattered on several islands and your goal is to regather them. You can do this by spending some people to anchor an floating island, pull islands with ropes together and also release them. At last you can let your people wander from one island to another connected one.

Your only resource are your limited number of islanders, but beware of the scary tiger on flotsams ;)
Big Dice Games Presents Woody Tigerbaum's Twisted Marble Factory (BDG_07_09)
woodys_marbles_s_070908b_final.zip — release candidate 2 (19.95 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)

Woody Tigerbaum is back in an epistolatory game of marbles, pipes, and (of course) crates.
Bouncy (Bouncy)
Bouncy-1.2.zip — final entry (8.25 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
This is a team entry consisting of Srekel, viblo.
ceronman (ceronman)
twist_em_all.zip — ceronman final (1.56 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
This is my first time on PyWeek. This is a solo entry. The name for my project will be: "Twist'em All". It's going to be a platform-shooter. Its main character is T-Man, a super hero with twisted powers!
Detective Creation Kit (first_try)
DCK_final_src.rar — final pyweek version - source edition (743.00 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
DCK_final_win.rar — final pyweek version - windows edition (2.88 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
I want to participate in this contest just to see if I'm able to do it.. I have not yet any idea what I'm going to do and it will stay that way until the theme is chosen.
Disk Field (TTTT)
DiskField v1.01b - Bin.zip — Bug fixes & performance. Replaced shortcut with batch launcher. (7.97 Mbytes on 2007/11/13)
DiskField v1.01.zip — Bug fixes & performance (2.33 Mbytes on 2007/09/25)
DiskField v1.0 - Bin.zip — Windows executable (11.77 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
DiskField v1.0.zip — Source (2.35 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
Navigate the disk to the end point.
Dreaming MIrror Games (DreamingMirror)
twist'n_boost-1.0.zip — final (177.79 Kbytes on 2007/09/09)
Take a little from old good games mix it with the new and innovative game play serve with good graphics and sound. will try to use OpenGL. but we will see. never finished a game in one week though.
EnterTheFoo (Enter_The_Foo)
TwistedWars.tar.gz — TwistedWars final (15.42 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
The year is 2034! You are the Champion of Twisted appointed by the Master Blit of the Axiom Ninja Collective. You must train to become a ninja by fighting the Dukes of Solar Mega-Systems. You only have a whip ... so good luck and watch out for the deadly TCP rays.
FamilyGuys2 (familyguys2)
hellacopy-1.2.zip — hellacopy final (884.61 Kbytes on 2007/09/10)
hellacopy-1.1.zip — PyWeek 4 Submission (261.25 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
hellacopy-1.0.zip — PyWeek 4 Submission (54.30 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
Warning: Failed opening 'includes/python/skillz.php3' for inclusion (include_path='.:/py/week') in /concord/california/public_html/location.php3 on line 42
Galvinball! (noidea)
galvinball-0.3.3.zip — Updated documentation. (4.42 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
galvinball-0.3.2.zip — Just a bugfix. (4.42 Mbytes on 2007/09/07)
galvinball-0.3.zip — A few improvements, cleaned up the code. (4.42 Mbytes on 2007/09/06)
galvinball-0.2.1.zip — Needs improvement, but already fun! (4.42 Mbytes on 2007/09/06)

(I never programmed with pygame before, but I would like to give it a try, just for fun.)

An implementation of Calvinball from Calvin & Hobbes -- make up the rules as you play, literally!
Gloopy (the_sticky_bits)
blobbit.tar.gz — blobbit final (33.47 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
Makin' a game called "gloopy" about some kinda blob that attaches to things.
Gold To Lead (AuPb)
twist_tail_toy-0.4.zip — twist_tail_toy-0.4 final (18.24 Kbytes on 2007/09/09)
Trigonometry bugs prevented me from doing a complete game. What I've got is basically a "toy", but I still think it's pretty fun to play around with.
Grossini's Vacations: "Ritmus Locus" (pywv)
ritmuslocus-0.3b.zip — ritmuslocus-0.3b final (18.62 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
This time, Grossini will take a rest.
He was very busy recently in Europython
Members: andrea, bob, facundobatista, javierb, javimarquevichi, Karucha, laura_glow, leito, lucio, marcos, matias, nrm, nubis, oxi, pabloz, riq, shanpuu, tenuki and alecu
Hectic Game Development 2 (hectic2)
tubasc_robast-0.6.9.zip — Some bugs fixed, collisions against level edges checked, victory conditions checked (149.17 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)

Game: Tubasc Robast (if this name means anything to you, send me a message so I can change it)

Team: Hectigo aka. Olli Etuaho. Doing everything by myself again.

Before the competition I wasn't sure if I would be able to participate this time, but here we are, and I have plenty of time and a pretty good idea what I'll be working on. So let's see if I can scrape something together!
Hole in the Head Studios - We might have lost our minds... (hiths)
hiths.zip — Scions of Darkness - final (we think) (12.35 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)


    The team from holeintheheadstudios.ipbfree.com.
    This is our 3rd go-around, under different team names.

    Team consists of:

      RB[0] - project leader/programmer/misc
      X.Plosion/Dagonet - project designer
      Narianim - 3d artist
      john - pixel artist
      orenmyst - pixel artist
      fydo - 3d/other artist
      eugman - programmer
      Bjørn - programmer/game designer
      nihilocrat - musician

    We now have a complete team, on with Pyweek!!!!!

King Tree (Tee-py5)
KingTree-1.0.zip — King Tree, final (4.74 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
A tale of war between two thrones. Which kingdom will win?
Lazy Susan (gamebyalex)
lazy_susan-1.zip — Lazy Susan source zip (910.67 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
An original board game for two players, or a human and a computer.
Masters of the Universe (Skeletowned)
hamsters-1.1.zip — hamsters-1.1 final (969.52 Kbytes on 2007/09/09)

Skeletor
“Silence you furry fool. You’re finished here, you understand? I’ve had it with your whining. You’re cast out, you’re banished.” - http://etk.scener.org/stuff/topflash/skeletowned.swf
Mindless Game Analytics Studio (Mindless_pw5)
twisty_ropes-0.1a.zip — Twisty Ropes final (62.98 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
Out of the darkness
fingers typing in the night
we return again
we are the shining star.

First place of the top-list
for us is surely won
given the condition
that ORDER BY score ASC is on!
Monkey Typer (monkeytyper)
twisted_twister.tar.gz — Twisted Twister - Final (1.33 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type or create a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. Given one monkey, and a typewriter, I bring you:

Twisted Twister:

You are Sammy the Spotter, out to test your latest invention: the Tornado Obliterator and Eradicator 3000 (TOE 3000). Using your spotter experience, you drive out, keeping tuned to the Baker Weather Service (the best weather service on the planet). Suddenly, you hear over the radio: "Tornadoes approaching!" Perfect! This is the chance to see if the TOE 3000 will really work! You rush on out, careful to stay in your car. This is it! Oh NO! There are houses here. Maybe you can help them! Can you eradicate the tornadoes, save the houses, and keep away from the lightning storm?

MonkeyCow 3000 (MonkeyCow3000)
wind-gods-1.1.zip — wind-gods-1.1 final (1.97 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
wind-gods-1.0.zip — wind-gods-1.0.zip (1.97 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
wind-gods-0.95.zip — May very well be the final version (1.97 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
wind-gods-0.9.zip — Very close to final final (1.97 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
wind-gods-0.8.zip — Almost... done... (1.89 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
MonkeyCow 3000
"We let pygons be pygons."
  • Aaron
  • Brian
  • Glen
  • Jerry
  • Mike
  • Wes
mucusnack (mucusnack)
mucusnack-0.2.zip — release 0.2 - music system (18.48 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
Snake/Nibbles with a Twist!
Murmel (SC)
Murmel2.zip — final submission (12.03 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
"Labrynth with a Twist!"

Bugfix for linux users: reaname data/art/menusplash.png to menusplash.PNG (sorry!)

Our entry for Pyweek 5. The theme is twisted and our project hopes to score with our simple scheme of gameplay. The player controls a marble and the challenge is to find the end of the maze. To make the game fun, challenging and to fit the theme of the competition, we have created an interesting control scheme. By dragging on screen with the mouse, the player will be able to rotate the level around the marble. Gravity always acts upon the marble, down, relative to the screen. In this way the player can manuever the marble in all sorts of interesting ways. To coincide with the traditional traps of the original Murmel-Labyrinths the marble in this game will be fragile. Fall too far a distance and you'll shatter forcing you to restart.
Mushroom Gravy (gravy)
nemesis-0.5.6.zip — Nemesis - A Game of Twisted Space/Time (173.18 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
"...because we had Mashed Potatoes last time..." This is another try at Pyweek. Maybe the third time is the charm,,,
Pynxilla (Pynxilla)
ventus_virginis-1.0.zip — pynxilla final (4.96 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
Pynxilla is one of the teams that came out from pycor former team, our name comes from the movemet sacuyismo and it came to us in a revelation product of too much cofee, apart from that we are only a bunch of crazy people
Return of PrintStar (ReturnOfPS)
juicer-1.0-win32.zip — final version - win32 (py2exe) (4.46 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
juicer-1.0.zip — final version - all platforms (1.83 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
Everyone's favorite week of ignoring the outside world for the sake of programming. Wait, how's that different from other weeks? Hmm...
Rochester Vikings (vikings)
twisted_life-1.0.0.zip — Twisted Life Version 1.0.0 (1.59 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
We're from the North Country, the wilds of Minnesota. We're all brutal hockey players and have timber wolves for house pets.
ROFL (ROFL)
Twisted Link 1.0.zip — Twisted Link final (495.12 Kbytes on 2007/09/10)
Twisted Link 0.5.zip — full playable now (285.59 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
Our game is a two-versus-two game, each player commanding his ship in an subspace (or asteroids) style, in a 2d-topdown infinite (or limited) space.
Every pair of players will be connected to each other with a twisted pair of electro-wires. Anyone fool enough to get there will die and instant gruesome death of doom.

Who will be the master of frags? Use cunning tactics and teamwork to show the opposite players the bright electric lighting-sparks!

Is nice.

Release Notes:
  • For REALLY old graphic cards (no offence..) - the graphics may respond very slow (due to non-clipped rendering). This can be noticed simply on a server game without client (do not mix up with the network lag). In this case, it may be helpful to disable the background drawing - comment out line 126 in level.py.
  • To disable the music, comment out line 34 in level.py, and line 17 in menu_screen.py. Though you wouldn't want do waste all the precious time we searched for great midis to put in..
  • Do play this game on your fast LAN. Dont really attempt to play it over lagged internet.
Have Fun!
RTSimple (3dgame)
rtsimple_simono.tar.gz — rtsimple_simono final (1.57 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
This time, I made an unconventional game - from the development side. I wanted to have an RTS in the browser no matter what - it sort of worked.
Ruf (Ruf)
KillThoseJunkies-1.1.zip — Kill Those Junkies - With Windows binaries (10.40 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
KillThoseJunkies-1.0.zip — Kill Those Junkies Game Package (7.17 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
One man entry by ruf.
saloparenators (salopar)
twisted_spring_factory.zip — the twisted spring factory (115.05 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
A freakin French Canadian
sleepless and confused (metalab)
deus-vs-deus-0.1.zip — deus-vs-deus-0.1 final (3.17 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)

a brave team of viennese hackers code for great justice and massive lulz.

greetings form the hackerspace metalab!

Slider1000 [by Team zahmeKatzen] (zK-2)
zK2-slider1000-WIN.zip — Windows version of Slider1000 (3.42 Mbytes on 2007/09/28)
zk2.zip — Final! :) (1.16 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)

Neko-Chan is bored. Nothing exciting is going on and it seems this won't change for the rest of the day. But luckily, OneNeko-Chan has this imported sliding puzzle in her magical box of occupation!

Help Neko-Chan and Oneneko-chan to master this colour-twisting board of time-consumption.
Somnambulance (somnambulance)
ufo_attack-0.5.zip — ufo_attack-0.5 (1.79 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)

Three Web developers join forces to create an entertainment application.

The result is UFO Attack! A game with a lot of planning under the hood, but very few of our intentions realized.

NOTE: There's a bug! Debugging needs to be turned on for the full effect. Just change line 5 of lib/utils.py to: 

debugFlag = True
Team Chuck Norris Is God (TCMIG)
Twistball-0.3-final.zip — Final submission, didnt get to all the things I wanted. I'll continue working on those and see if I can make another submission before the end. (7.92 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)
Well, I'm all alone planning to make something that runs... If it's fun that's just a bonus
The game of Allefant (Allefant)
allefant5_pyweek.zip — post compo version 1.1 (1.82 Mbytes on 2007/09/30)
Allefant 5
The network plumber (Pypes)
Pypes 1.0.zip — FInal, I hope (1.37 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
A twisted rendition of that old game... You play a gamer desperate to connect to a MMO... Can you make it? Will the data be lost in the endless "internets"?
THijs (pytomic_bomb)
twistit-5.tar.gz — twistit final (2.41 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
twistit-3.tar.gz — Completely working version (2.40 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
twistit-2.tar.gz — Second (kind of) working version (2.38 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
twistit.tar.gz — First (kind of) working version (2.22 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
Explosive team entry, acually called Pythomic Bomb, but I (THijs) messed up the registration process (I think..). The team consists of Jeroen Vloothuis en THijs Jonkman.
Twisted River Community (River)
Twisted River Final.tar.gz — Final release. Contains manual and performance improvements. (1.16 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
Twisted River Pre-Final.tar.gz — Almost-Final Release: Manual still missing (527.94 Kbytes on 2007/09/08)

Your twisted god sends you along a twisted quest to take a few twisted people and settle along a twisted river. Can you fulfill your destiny or will you cause everybody to starve?

A city-builder game set along a unnaturally winding river, with crazy villagers and a god who would love to see you fail.

Vortex Racers (scav_team_entry)
vracers-1.0.zip — After-challenge fixed version (2.35 Mbytes on 2007/09/23)
vracers-0.6.22.zip — Vortex Racers (really final) (2.35 Mbytes on 2007/09/08)
Scavengers Team Entry

Race clockwork vehicles around a track, avoiding the dangerous meteorological phenomenon.

Wound Up! (psyduck_revenge)
wound-up-1.0.2.zip — Final Submission (5.39 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
Elves! Elves and clocks! With gumball machines! And Giant Springs, Giant Springs powered by elves! And no buckets! No bucket disco, no, no! Featuring the adventures of Amos Elfson and "Questionable" Bartholomew "The Elfmeister" von MacFeatheringwright-MacFeatheringwright Esq.
Xasm Studios (xasm)
meltytwist_1.0.2.zip — Melty Twist final (4.01 Mbytes on 2007/09/09)
Xasm Studios first attempt at a Pyweek challenge