JAMHacks Raceway

Crash Screen

Inspiration

JAMHacks Raceway is inspired by mobile games such as Subway Surfer.

What it does

JAMHacks Raceway is a game where you drive forward and attempt to avoid obstacles on the road.

How we built it

We used object orienting in Python and Pygame to program our game, and we used Google Drawings to create the backgrounds.

Challenges we ran into

Repl.it had issues with audio files, it was extremely laggy, and occasionally it would raise errors where there weren't actually any errors. We were also unfamiliar with Pygame as well as some functions that we had to learn how to use during the Hackathon such as time.time(), which runs a timer. Furthermore, it was our first time using Pycharm so we were very unfamiliar with it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We had the game working, we accomplished most of what we had envisioned, and learned many new functions.

What we learned

We learned about a function that affects the fps, a function that adds a timer, functions that detect collisions, and various other functions in Python. We also learned how to use Github.