PyWeek 30

This is an entry in the PyWeek 30 challenge, with the theme "Castaway!".

Click here to go to the PyWeek entry page.

Controls

• f1 - Save screenshot (saves to the game's directory)
• f3 - Toggle wireframe rendering of meshes
• f5 - Hot reload game files (only available when running from source)
• left mouse button - Click to move, hold to start casting, click and hold to reel in
• right mouse button - cancel current cast

Click on a spinning build icon to get build options.

Configuration

The game can be configured by creating a user.prc file in the root of the project (i.e., next to settings.prc). If this file is present, then it variables in it will take precedence over any other source.

Some useful variables:

• win-size - two numbers to control the resolution (e.g., win-size 1280 720)
• fullscreen - true/false to control fullscreen mode (e.g., fullscreen true)
• click-hold-threshold - a floating point value for how long the mouse needs to remain pressed (in seconds) to be considered "held" (e.g., click-hold-threshold 0.4)
• confine-mouse - true/false to control if the mouse cursor can leave the window boundaries (e.g., confine-mouse false)
• skip-main-menu - true/false to skip the main menu, intro cutscene, etc. and jump straight to the game (e.g., skip-main-menu true)
• show-frame-rate-meter - true/false to display an FPS counter in the top right of the screen (e.g., show-frame-rate-meter true)
• potato-mode - true/false try to turn down visuals to run on low-end hardware (e.g., potato-mode true)

Here is an example of what a user.prc might look like:

win-size 1920 1080
fullscreen true

Running from source

Dependencies

• Python 3.7+
• Python packages in requirements.txt
• blend2bamex and gen_asteroids entry points for pman (run pip install -e . to get these)
• Blender 2.90 (preferably on the system PATH)
• limeade (optional, allows hot reloading of source code)

Run the game

To run, simply cd to the directory containing the game and type:

python run_game.py

Acknowledgments

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Many thanks to @lordmauve and all the other PyWeek participants for a great challenge!