dynamite
(c) 2005 - Phil Hassey and Tim Inge
http://www.imitationpickles.org/pyweek1/ - for contest details, etc
Running
Under Linux (or Windows, if you downloaded the .tgz): make sure you have a minimum of python-2.3, pygame-1.6, and SDL_ttf-2.0 installed. python dynamite.py
Under Windows:
Click on the icon.
Credits
Phil Hassey - concept, code, graphics, voices, levels
Tim Inge - concept, music, sfx, levels
Reiner - sprites
Thanks
richard - for hosting the PyWeek competition everyone - for comments and suggestions
Story
The evil potentate is ruining everyone's lives! Use the power of dynamite to destroy his strongholds.
Instructions
Detonate dynamite by the blue load bearing pillars to bring down the castles. Watch out for the guards. Hide next to walls, but not too close to guards. Escape via windows.
Controls
Left Mouse Button - walk to a point (if the point is by a window, exit the window)
Numeric Keypad - walk in a direction
Right Mouse Button 1st Time - place a box of dynamite
Right Mouse Button 2nd Time - detonate the dynamite
Left CTRL - same as Right Mouse Button
Arrow Keys - peek around the level
Escape - quit
Enter / p - pause
F2 - toggle music
F10 - toggle fullscreen (linux only)
F12 - pause without text (for screenshots)
Scoring
Scoring is done on a per-level basis. You receive 100 points - for blowing up a single guard 400 points - for blowing up two guards at once 1200 points - for blowing up three guards at once 25 points - per second of time left over at the end of the level
Resources
These are some of the resources I referred to during this game that you may find useful.
level editor and utility libraries:
http://www.imitationpickles.org/pgu/
- pygame
- http://www.pygame.org/
tilesets and sprites for isometric games: http://www.reinerstileset.4players.de:1059/englisch.htm
how to render isometric tiles in blender: http://legion.gibbering.net/golem/tutorial_walls.html
nice looking textures:
http://www.mayang.com/textures/Architectural/html/Stone/index.html
how to render fireworks in blender:
http://download.blender.org/documentation/oldsite/oldsite.blender3d.org/111_Blender tutorial Fireworks.html
- fonts
- http://www.larabie.com
Bresenham line algorithm:
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1275.asp
a-star path finding:
http://upe.acm.jhu.edu/websites/Benny_Tsai/Introduction to AStar.htm
blender 3d modeling program:
http://www.blender.org