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[blundis]

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The next challenge is in March / April, 2010.
 

Friday 2010/02/26 Registration open
Sunday 2010/03/21 Theme voting commences
Sunday 2010/03/28 Challenge start
Sunday 2010/04/04 Challenge end, judging begins
Sunday 2010/04/18 Judging closes, winners announced

Who's entering? I'm polishing my python chops as we speak, getting ready for the big day. Actually entered last time but couldn't particpate for some reason i can't remember.

ps. is this the best place to post something like this? ds.

[bigwavejake]

I'd love to participate, but I'm afraid to go it alone.

I'm an awesome Python/Pygame programmer, but I got no art/sound/design skillz.  If anyone wants a solid coder, PM me.

[george]

Looking forward to it!

I've been trying to re-learn pyglet as well, over here.

[blundis]

I'd love to participate, but I'm afraid to go it alone.

I'm an awesome Python/Pygame programmer, but I got no art/sound/design skillz.  If anyone wants a solid coder, PM me.

I'm pretty much the same but I actually find it quite liberating working towards a fixed deadline, because there's no time to mess with graphics. If it's vaguely recognizable/hilarious, it'll work. Check out some of the old entries, programmer art is pretty much par for the course.

Plus, there a crapload of assemble stuff to use. 

[Aik]

Hrm - tempting. I have been using Python lately, but I'm not sure I'll have time. Would probably need to hack it out over the weekend and ... yeah, I'm not sure I'm a fast enough programmer to manage anything in that time.

[george]

Plus, there a crapload of assemble stuff to use. 

Indeed!

[MindEraser]

Sort of makes me wish I had any experience with Python. I've installed python and created a list of useful libs, but never bothered to start tinkering (Same with C++, heh).

[blundis]

Just for the record, I think it's totally doable (like you're MOM!) to learn enough Python to get by before the competition. Check out something like http://www.korokithakis.net/tutorials/python for a quick intro or http://diveintopython.org/ to get a little more in depth.

After that, getting a basic pyglet app up and running is the work of seconds. That shit is beautiful it's like,

Code:

import pyglet

window = pyglet.window.Window()

@window.event
def on_draw()
    window.clear()

pyglet.app.run()

and Bob's your uncle.

[george]

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