Thread: A recent project of mine

You'll all be glad to know that the time I've saved by *not* coding for you guys has been put to use:

Video Game Downloads

It's about a 30meg download - which might seem pretty unreasonable for a retro arcade game. More unreasonable is the amount of space it will take on your hard drive; it's because the engine is written in python, which means no handy little exe file, instead it has to install the whole python back end, along with the script for the game. Not cool, but makes things pretty easy for me, so suck it

Anyway, if you fancy giving it a whirl, go ahead I'd be much obliged for any comments that aren't "This is ****, you've wasted at least 13 hours of your LIFE!" or "You want how much hard drive space? This is obscene! There's only one model and a handful of textures!"

ps. If you hadn't guessed from the URL, it's a rather updated (fiddled with) version of Asteroid. It really started out as an exercise in me learning the language/the engine. And let me tell you, python is the best language EVER. No exceptions. Sucks to be you guys using LUA.

Hope someone enjoys it. Oh, and for those of you to whom this will mean anything, the rather haunting soundtrack(s) w(ere)as written by Angus. (I needed something it was legal for me to distribute). Enjoy.

EDIT:: Find the controls in the license agreement (displayed at install time, also under <gamepath>\game\license.txt - gamepath normally being C:\EpicAsteroids)

Cool. Civ4 uses python for its scripted events, and possibly more I believe.

I'm going to give the game a go:

Thing is, in a commercial game like civ or bf2, you don't even notice the extra 90-100megs for the python backend, but for something which ought to be tiny like this, you notice it rather

WOW 30MB that's like a 2 minutes download! I'm not sure I can be bothered to wait two whole minutes!

I'll give it a go and see what its like. Epic Asteroids sounds like some fun!

Prepare for some conservation of momentum goodness.

Edited first post - controls found in license.txt

It's quite fun- is the difficult to see asteroids deliberate? I'm guessing they are.

Also, did you have to call the file EpicAsteroidsexe?

I didn't even notice it - is it a problem? Yers, it's dark, and you have a flashlight on the end of your gun. It's M to turn off music btw.

Originally Posted by Halfdark

I didn't even notice it - is it a problem? Yers, it's dark, and you have a flashlight on the end of your gun. It's M to turn off music btw.

hehe of course he did

Originally Posted by Nadanova

Originally Posted by Halfdark

I didn't even notice it - is it a problem? Yers, it's dark, and you have a flashlight on the end of your gun. It's M to turn off music btw.

hehe of course he did

To be fair Halfdark might just have his screen a lot brighter! )