Dino

Inspiration

We quite simply wanted to make a platformer.

What it does

It is a simple platformer with cute little dinos.

How we built it

We wrote it is PyGame, and used assets we found from itch.io

Assets

• Dino Characters
• Pixel Platformer

Challenges we ran into

• Proper collision detection --
• Camera scrolling -- introduced weird bugs
• Level design -- we settled on a text file method, but it is a hack for moving blocks
• Character animation -- proper frame rate is an art
• Information dependency hell -- The player object contrarians the level object, contains the player, blocks, etc. It's recursive and strange.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Moving platforms
• Animated movement, idling, and death
• Enemies don't fall off of ledges
• Everything has an asset!

What we learned

• How to use sprite sheets
• How to use PyGame to *actually * make a game. We usually use it as a GUI for stranger projects.

What's next for Dino

• Menus
• Boss level

Built With

• pygame