Red Panda Run

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  Options Menu

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  Level Selector

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  Main Menu

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  Inside the game

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  Screen before the level starts

Inspiration

Part of my inspiration came from Cool Math Games, because I used to always play platformer games on that website. Red pandas also inspired me because they are awesome.

What it does

My game has 6 platformer levels with increasing difficulty, and the main purpose is to entertain. However, with the theme of red pandas, I also added text before the levels started to help the user know more about it and its status in the wildlife.

How we built it

I built my game with Python and Pygame, using Pycharm as my IDE. I also used Tiled for my level editor.

Challenges we ran into

Some of the challenges I had to solve included how I was going to translate the tiles from Tiled into tiles in my code, because I had already implemented tiles in my game before using Tiled. Another challenge was getting the transition between menus to work properly.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Something I'm proud of is how nice the UI turned out to be. I used a pixelated font and the same color palette throughout my game, and it turned out to be very aesthetically pleasing. The transitions turned out to be really smooth as well.

What we learned

I built part of this game with the guide of a YouTube tutorial, and from that tutorial I learned how to really abstract my code using object-oriented programming.

What's next for Red Panda Run

If I were to keep working on Red Panda Run, I would definitely add more levels and make the difficulty/learning curve a little less steep throughout the levels. The problem for me was the time constraint limited me to 6 levels, which meant that I had to go very quickly from easy to difficult.

Built With

• itch.io
• pygame
• python
• tiled