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Miner - 0.9

Miner is a dig-and-gather-resources game. You are Sam, a Moon resource miner who must gather resources from the Moon surface.


Marcus Møller
(marcus)
Notable features: * Randomly generated Moon surface using, well, the random-module. * Destructible environment, much like Minecraft in 2D. * Menu system. I made up a rather quick and dirty menu system, but it works just awesome and I like it. Originally planned features * Another planet in the background - doh! I wanted it to be a pixelized version of Earth. * Procedural moon landscape. I wanted the player to be able to dig as deep and explore as much of the Moon surface as he wanted to. * Better gameplay. I should have worked better on the core ideas of the gameplay. The game can be challenging, but it will be repetitive in the end. Closing thoughts I am happy that I finished the game and did my first PyWeek! That's just great. There are plenty of things I would have done differently, however. First of all I probably shouldn't have been off-the-grid for 5 days of the challenge. I also now know that it's very important to rethink your gameplay/challenge before starting the programming. The challenge was great, however. And I enjoyed it!

Changes

platformer 138 pyweek 71 collision 9 destruction 2 17 1

Links

Home Page
http://www.pyweek.org/e/powrtoch/
Source
https://github.com/marcusmoller/pyweek17-miner

Releases

Miner 0.9.1 — 13 Dec, 2013

Miner 0.9 — 5 Dec, 2013

Pygame.org account Comments

  • Benjamin Ward 2013-12-08 14:45

    What resources does this require? I have tried to run this from the command line, and double-clicking the .py file, but it gives me errors whatever I do, so I assume that I am missing something.

    Marcus Møller 2013-12-11 07:40

    Hi Benjamin Ward.

    What error are you getting when running it from the command-line? It should work out-of-the-box.

    Best,
    Marcus

    Benjamin Ward 2013-12-12 21:20

    Marcus,

    I have attatched a picture... I don't really understand what the problem with this is (in the program, I mean). Thanks for the help!

    - Benjamin

    P.S. - sorry for the slow response, I was away from an internet connection for a while.

    Marcus Møller 2013-12-13 09:30

    Miner should be now be able to be run through Python3. Please get the latest source on GitHub: https://github.com/marcusmolle...

    Marcus Møller 2013-12-13 09:17

    Hi again.
    I just did some testing, and the error occurs to be happening when the game is being run through Python 3 rather than Python 2.7, which it was originally developed for.

    I will see if I can do some quick fixing, so that the game can be run through Python 3.

    Benjamin Ward 2013-12-14 20:30

    thanks! should have guessed this was the reason. Nice job!

  • Recoherent 2013-12-09 23:44

    Wow. I love this game :) This is the kind of game that usually doesn't have a story, but I like this one's. :D Nice game to play when you need to kill a bit of time. All in all, I like it. Maybe when you add the infinite worlds (or whatever) you could add sandbox, where you just try to get the most possible, and maybe add lava or something dangerous? Who knows! :D

    Marcus Møller 2013-12-11 07:43

    Hi Recoherent.

    Happy to hear that you enjoyed the game! It was initially made just for PyWeek, but as I never got around polishing the game, I will most certainly do that at some point. It could also do with a bit of music and sounds to give an overall better atmosphere.

    Thanks for your kind words.

  • Horst JENS 2013-12-12 07:54

    nice game, congratulations!

    Marcus Møller 2013-12-12 11:57

    Cheers!

  • CHAD2430 2014-01-02 21:04

    hello Marcus, I havent tried the game yet but looks interesting!

    is this a tile set form you're using?
    I haven't firmly grasped how to do that yet.....perhaps you could help me?
    also, maybe we could help each other, idk how you feel about that but I would like to work with someone, kinda like e-mailing source to one another, coming up with ideas.
    Let me know what you think,

    Thanks

    Marcus Møller 2014-01-05 08:56

    Hi CHAD2430.

    I am not entirely sure what you mean by "tile set form". If you mean a tileset image (an image full of different tiles for use in tile maps), then no. The only two graphical resources that I used in Miner was the aim (the greenish one around the player) and the planet (in the background).

    If you mean a simple tilemap, then yes, this is just a simple tilemap, tile[x][y].

    But please do contact me if you have any questions. You should be able to find my e-mail on my Github profile!

    Best,
    Marcus

  • koda 2014-03-05 04:26

    how do i play the game?

  • Sam Sanft 2014-06-03 17:05

    How do you download the game?

  • HelpPls 2014-07-04 01:57

    Really wish I could figure out how to run the damn thing...

  • HelpPls 2014-07-04 01:58

    I have a PC and see no "codes and development" in my AppData folder. I also tried moving all of the files into my installation of python but that didn't work (not that it really expected it to)