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PHIL'S LEVEL RATINGS:
starred levels are going in the final game .. haven't rated all levels yet
N J T P
+ + + phil_1 easy jungle
+ + phil_7 easy jungle
+ + + tim_2.tga easy/med jungle
+ + + phil_2.tga easy/med jungle
? + + phil_13.tga med/hard jungle
? + + pekuja_3 medium volcano
+ + + tim_4 medium volcano
? ? + phil_14.tga med/hard volcano
+ + + phil_8.tga easy volcano-bonus
+ + + phil_12.tga easy/med moon
+ + + pekuja_1 easy/med moon
+ + + phil_5.tga medium moon
+ ? + + phil_10.tga hard moon
+ + + boss_1.tga hard boss
? + ? ? fydo_1.tga easy/med volcano
? ? ? tim_1.tga medium volcano
+ ? ? phil_9 easy/med moon
? ? tee_1 hard jungle
- + - pekuja_2 medium volcano
? - - phil_3 med/hard jungle
? - phil_11
- ? phil_15
+ - - phil_4 medium volcano
+ - - phil_6 hard volcano (replace 1st fallies w/ blocks)
- - drpetter_1 hard volcano
- - eugman_1 medium jungle
MILLIONS OF GAME MAPS:
http://www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/NES/index.htm
GOD MODE:
press f10 for god mode!
IMPORTANT NOTES TO CODERS:
- don't edit level.py !!!! ask phil to
- in general, just add new tiles, and new enemies with CODES, see the HOWTO
section a bit down the file
PLOT OF THE GAME:
The basic plot of the game is "Oh no, the evil overlord stole the galaxy crystal, we must fly up to the moon to get it!" In more concrete terms - first few levels are in a jungle. The next 3 levels are flying up an exploding volcano. The last 3 levels are going to be on the moon.
HOW TO EDIT LEVELS AND TILES:
- run leveledit.py - to edit levels
you can use File->Preview to preview your level as you go
- All levels should have a two tile thick wall around them, to bound
stuff from escaping the level
- run tileedit.py - to edit tiles
check out the top of tileedit.py in a text editor for a list of keyboard shortcuts
(same goes for leveledit, lots of nifty key shortcuts)
- if you need to resize a level, backup your level, then resize it in an image editor
HOW TO ORGANIZE TILES:
- all tiles are to be put into tiles.tga
- tile size = 16x16
- it can hold 256 tiles
- the first 64 tiles should be "general purpose" tiles
- the next 64 tiles should be "jungle tiles"
- next 64 "volcano / lava"
- next 64 "moon tiles"
- we will be able to have animated tiles, but I haven't implemented that yet.
to have an animated tile, just put the frames in a row for now.
HOW TO NAME SPRITES:
- Each sprite should be in a separate file in data/sprites
named something like "player-left-0" etc..
- All sprites for a given character should be the same size
so that the bounding box of the characters shape can always be the same
HOWTO ADD A NEW TILE TYPE:
- open up tiles.py
- add a line like: 0x01 :[t_init,['solid'],tiles_basic.hit_block,1,1,1,1,],
the key is the tile number .. then
t_init - the easy initializer, use that unless you need something crazy
groups - a list of groups that the tile can "hit"
function - a function to call when the tile hits something
*params - extra parameters to pass to that function
some basic tile types are defined in tiles_basic. you can probably copy those
and muck around some. the hit_block can do all kinds of blocks, but mainly
1,1,1,1 for solid blocks and 1,0,0,0 for platforms are the most useful parameters
TILE CODING TIPS:
- animation isn't implemented yet, but i'll add that soon enough, don't
worry about it for now. just check out tiles_basic.py for hit methods
and do the stuff in the previous section. if we need to do anything super
crazy, ask phil
HOWTO ADD A NEW SPRITE TYPE:
- copy spikey.py or platform.py to a new enemy.py
- in sprites.py add "import enemy"
- modify enemy.py with your new code, etc.
- edit codes.tga to have a symbol for the code for the enemy
- open codes.py, and add a line to the CODES section for enemies
key: [fnc,*params]
key - the number of that tile in codes.tga
fnc - the init function (sprites.enemy.init usually)
*params - some extra params to be passed to your init function
MISC SPRITE CODING NOTES:
- If an object can stand on other objects, it must
- have s.standing attribute = None in init
- call sprite.check_standing(g,s) at the end of each loop
- If an object can carry other objects, it must
- set b.standing = a .. and ..
- set a.carrying.append(b) when it starts to carry something
- To get a sprite removed,
- s.active = False
and it will be garbage collected sometime soon :)
deinit() will be auto-called if needed...
- The sprites use names like
'sprite-01' not actual images. The images are looked up during
rendering. Should make things easier to follow.
- to change the image a sprite is using,
s.image = 'player-right-%d'%(s.frames%5) , etc ..
SOFTWARE OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT NEED:
http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi
http://www.pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.7.1release.win32-py2.5.exe
OLD JUNK THAT CAN BE IGNORED, BUT I'M LEAVING HERE FOR NOW:
philhassey: code
trick: still haven't heard back...
pekuja: gfx?
DrPetter: sfx, gfx, music?
timinge: music
fydo: maybe some gfx somewhere
lerc: gfx, code
Tee : levels?
eugman: levels?
PoV: levels?
jolle: levels/gfx
illume: gfx/levels?
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