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Cargo Carrier - 1.1

While flying your Millennium Falcon (original, right?), collect cargo while out-maneuvering and destroying asteroids.


Brock Glaze
(bglaze)
I used Python 2.7 and Pygame to create this game. You will need both of them installed to run the script. However, you shouldn't need anything else. Any suggestions or comments are very welcome! Collect cargo crates and warp to more difficult zones. You have 1 life, and the max level is currently set to 10. Can you win? I, the creator, have yet to get past level 8, but maybe you can!

Changes

1. Gave rocks 'hitpoints'. -- In other words, larger rocks will merely crack upon shooting them once and will need to be shot further to be destroyed. 2. Gave the player ship a 'force shield' -- different rock types will do different amounts of damage to the ship's shield, some will hurt more than others. 3. Added a shield 'health-bar' underneath the ship, so you will know when death is immenent. 4. Changed some sound effects. 5. Added a small explosion image.
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Links

Home Page
http://www.pygame.org/
Source
http://www.bglz.net/files/python/projects/CargoCarrier-9-11-11-script.zip

Releases

Cargo Carrier 1.1 — 12 Sep, 2011

Cargo Carrier 1.12 — 13 Sep, 2011

Cargo Carrier 1.13 — 15 Sep, 2011

Cargo Carrier 1.0 — 11 Sep, 2011

Pygame.org account Comments

  • g30c0d3r 2011-09-11 19:55

    Jouni,

    Thank you for the advice. I REALLY appreciate the input about the code. I am going to change that asap.

    Also, I appreciate the advice on functionality, and I love the
    suggestion. My wife actually commented that it's weird that the smaller
    rocks are just as destructive as the biggest rocks. So, I am going to
    implement shield power (ie health bar), and different damage depending
    on rock size.

    Thanks again for your input! Hopefully I'll have the new version up as soon as I get some free time to add those things.

  • Brian Zimmerman 2011-09-20 16:38

    No matter what version of Cargo Carrier I try, I get the following error:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "cargo_carrier.pyw", line 555, in <module>
        if __name__ == '__main__': main(1, 9999, 40)
      File "cargo_carrier.pyw", line 302, in main
        icon = ccfuncs.load_image('data/icon.ico', True)
      File "C:\Documents and Settings\zimmeb5\My Documents\Downloads\Cargo_Carrier\ccfuncs.py", line 292, in load_image
        image = pygame.image.load(file_name)
    pygame.error: Unsupported image format

    Is there something I need to get Pygame to display .ico images?

  • Juan 2013-06-18 23:55

    my computer is a PIV with xp sp 3, 512mb ram and gforce2 mx 400, i can not run the game......

    Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:43:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Documents and Settings\Juan\Escritorio\CargoCarrier-9-15-11-script\cargo_carrier.pyw", line 315, in <module>
    game = Game()
    File "C:\Documents and Settings\Juan\Escritorio\CargoCarrier-9-15-11-script\cargo_carrier.pyw", line 32, in __init__
    self.icon = pygame.image.load('data/icon.ico')
    error: Unsupported image format

    but runs fine in the same computer with xubuntu 12.04

  • vadash_bengals 2014-06-06 06:01

    click on link, but it doesnt work. HELP!!!