First year tron students try make a game

Inspiration

We drew inspiration for this game from the game jam theme "On the edge".

What it does

Our initial vision was of a platformer game, in which your sword would get a little blunt each time you hit something (so you would need to keep the edge of your sword as sharp as possible). What it actually does, is you have a character that you can move around with, and a few enemies (with very dodgy hitboxes) that you can kill. There are also platforms that do not have collisions. However, the dynamic background works fine.

How we built it

In our team of 3, one of us dealt with creating the map, another programmed the characters (movement, animations...), and the other made sprites.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge we ran into was the deadline. Our initial idea was far too ambitious for people with no prior game development experience, and we are left with a barely even half-finished game.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The player character works quite well, as well as the dynamic background.

What we learned

We learned how to implement animated sprites and a dynamic background in pygame. We also learnt how to implement moving sprites.

What's next for First year tron students try make a game

We most likely will not be continuing development on this game (at least not for a while).

Built With

• pygame
• python