Anomaly Lost (Scrapfest)

Your scrapper drone that you must control to mine resources.
One of our expertly drawn, formatted, and textured backgrounds. You can see the ridges and hills. (MS Paint pros)
Scrapper can perform many useful tasks...including a self-destruct for emergency situations.

Inspiration

We wanted to make something unique and not cliche. We settled upon a futuristic adventure where you explore desolate planets and destroyed ships in search of the answer to a great mystery: the fate of the colony ship Anomaly.

What it does

Pilot your drone scrapper around wastes and asteroids and mine precious resources to help you survive as you quest to find the fate of the Anomaly in this procedurally-generated Scrapfest! (WIP)

How we built it

We built it from the ground up using Python and the Pygame module. Two of the team members worked on programming and two worked on art.

Challenges we ran into

We made everything so far in about 5 hours, as the brainstorming process took quite some time. In addition, Pygame has many odd bugs that complicated the process for us, including graphics not rendering.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We actually completed enough of a game to call it that. We also thought up a unique, original idea that has not been done much before.

What we learned

Python is not the best game engine, especially in a limited time frame. If you have hours on end to fix bugs, go right ahead, but it's not for people who only have 5 hours to make a game.