Color Police by ryuurei

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made by ryuurei for LD26 (COMPO)
BUG NOTE:
- Controls get jammed up occasionally. The issue is typically resolved by simply pressing the key you want again, should holding it result in a jam.
- No score displayed when running Windows executable. This is due to some odditties in dealing with py2exe and pygame's default font. The quickest way to make it possible to create the executable was to simply remove the score display.

NEW:
The ompldr links I was using before seem to be failing people, so I've uploaded the whole package to dropbox. Just as before, windows users can run the main.exe file located in src/dist, and Linux/OSX users can just run the main.py file with python (provided you have pygame installed).
I've included a Windows executable.
Extract the rar's contents, navigate to src/dist and then run main.exe.

Written with Python 2.7, but should work with Python 2.6.X to 2.7.4. Makes use of the Pygame library.
Controls: Left, Right arrows to turn
Up arrow to move forwards
Space button to shoot
The objective is to shoot all the blocks that have the same color as the gem on the player's ship.
The score is proportional to the ratio of the time played in seconds to the number of blocks on the screen.
This game is designed with infinite gameplay in mind. You can't actually 'win'- or rather, as long as you're playing, you're always winning!

Ratings

Coolness 33% 1659
Overall 2.33 1255

Feedback

Fabien Por茅e
29. Apr 2013 路 14:57 UTC
I think you forgot to include an executable!
馃帳 ryuurei
29. Apr 2013 路 15:13 UTC
It's written in Python, so you just run the main.py file with `python main.py'
馃帳 ryuurei
29. Apr 2013 路 15:51 UTC
To make things more clear (should have written this before, it's my bad):
Change directories into the LudumDare26/src directory.
run `python main.py` to play the game.
FloatingGhost
29. Apr 2013 路 16:04 UTC
requires pygame library.
SuperlevelSebastian
30. Apr 2013 路 09:54 UTC
Will you give out a compiled version? :)
JohnnySix
30. Apr 2013 路 20:57 UTC
For those of us less tech savvy, a compiled version would be nice - the image is compelling enough to pique interest! :)
馃帳 ryuurei
01. May 2013 路 04:29 UTC
I've added a new `windows` release. It basically has exactly what the source release has plus a dist directory containing a main.exe file that provides all dependencies (python and pygame) so it can be played automatically.
However, since this isn't like a native executable, and simply contains the whole Python interpreter, it's a substantially larger download.
Some bugs, the ship doesn't spin properly, some times colored things don't seem to get hit, and when I finally managed to kill all of the correct color, nothing happened.

Plus for music/sound, minus for bugs/controls. And what's with the confusing background?
IceCliff
01. May 2013 路 16:43 UTC
I kind of didn't understand this game :c
Adipson
01. May 2013 路 16:54 UTC
fun ! it reminded me scramble in the 80s
KilledByAPixel
02. May 2013 路 03:08 UTC
Really interesting concept! I liked the music too but I couldn't figure out how to play very well.
whilefun
02. May 2013 路 03:24 UTC
Pretty cool idea, although I found it hard to control. The scoring scheme is neat, and the music was great :)
ohsqueezy
02. May 2013 路 17:07 UTC
Great music and atmosphere. I enjoyed making streams of bullets while rotating the ship.
Merkoth
04. May 2013 路 01:01 UTC
I can麓t find the binary...
Cosmologicon
04. May 2013 路 15:09 UTC
Neat idea but the performance is really bad for me. I timed it and it took 39 seconds to make a full rotation. My computer is pretty slow, but it should be able to handle the likes of this game.
netmute
06. May 2013 路 15:42 UTC
I'm on a Mac. Sorry :(
Cosine
06. May 2013 路 15:46 UTC
Loved the music, but everything moved so slowly that I gave up after a while.
lorancou
18. May 2013 路 16:39 UTC
"Website is currently unreachable" :/ Too bad, your game looked nice!
stqn
18. May 2013 路 22:14 UTC
Can't download either. You should mention in the source link that it's in pygame, because when I saw "windows" I was ready to give up and go on with the next game; but PyGame I can run easily under Linux!
DST
18. May 2013 路 22:46 UTC
I liked the graphics, and controls works great too :)
stqn
20. May 2013 路 23:25 UTC
Excellent music! Probably the best soundtrack of all 100+ LD26 games I tried. To play the game under Arch Linux I had to install python2-pygame instead of python-pygame. I played a bit shooting everywhere and stopped after a while for a lack of goal (and also the game had slowed down a lot.) With a score, faster-moving squares and the ability to lose it could make a fun game.