{"author_link":"\/author\/crowbeak\/","author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","comments":[{"author_name":"tnovelli","author_uid":"17590","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:20am","epoch":1367208900,"text":"nooooooooooooooooo potato!!!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Check out html5 and webGL... python is a PIA."},{"author_name":"Cosmologicon","author_uid":"1151","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:24am","epoch":1367209140,"text":"There's not a huge replay potential here, but those sound effects and goofy graphics had me laughing out loud, enough to keep me interested anyway. I scored 127."},{"author_name":"DaveDobson","author_uid":"10977","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:25am","epoch":1367209200,"text":"Sorry, couldn't get it to run.  I love the potato with real eyes, though - very funny idea."},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:34am","epoch":1367209740,"text":"tnovelli: Yeah... Python is just what I had to work with. I'm planning to do spend the next four months learning to use something else.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Cosmologicon: There really isn't replay potential, no. xD I had fun making the sound effects, though, so I'm glad you like them. :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>DaveDobson: Sorry to hear that. &gt;_&lt; I'm glad you like the potato eyes, though... that was the idea that led to the game in the first place. xD"},{"author_name":"karsyf","author_uid":"17889","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:44am","epoch":1367213940,"text":"Sorry, couldn't get it to run even with Python and Pyglet &gt;&lt;"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:49am","epoch":1367214240,"text":"karsyf: Can you tell me what sort of errors you got?"},{"author_name":"paulopn","author_uid":"21622","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:00am","epoch":1367214900,"text":"I'm using python 3...sadly not working... =("},{"author_name":"stevejohnson","author_uid":"3120","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:27am","epoch":1367216520,"text":"pyglet does not run on Python 3, so it can't work."},{"author_name":"Misael.K","author_uid":"12802","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:39am","epoch":1367217240,"text":"Managed to run the game in Windows 7 64 bits after doing a &quot;pip install pyglet&quot; and disabling sounds in &quot;resources.py&quot;. Apparently there's a problem with the AVBin library, which pyglet uses to play sounds.\r<br\/>The game: simple, perhaps too simple. This reminds me of an old Windows 3.x game where you have to squash bugs in similar fashion."},{"author_name":"jerrre","author_uid":"13020","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:20am","epoch":1367219700,"text":"could not get it to run on osx sadly"},{"author_name":"robmozart","author_uid":"21059","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:54pm","epoch":1367250540,"text":"Ah, a fellow Pyglet user.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It works on OS X 10.8.3. You just have to make python run in 32-bit mode, because AVBin does not like 64-bit.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>py2app makes it easy to create an executable for Mac."},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:45pm","epoch":1367271600,"text":"py2app did not make it easy to create this executable. It failed spectacularly and gave me no errors I could follow as to why."},{"author_name":"ddionisio","author_uid":"17724","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:06pm","epoch":1367272860,"text":"Any chance you can give instructions how to compile? :) The screenshot caught my attention, I want to play it!"},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:18pm","epoch":1367273580,"text":"Potato."},{"author_name":"sigfig","author_uid":"21797","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:01pm","epoch":1367276160,"text":"hi! i can't get your game to run sorry. downloads for pyglet are down. you should include your dependencies with your release!"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:12pm","epoch":1367276820,"text":"ddionisio: If I knew how to make it compile, I would have exe files available for Windows 7 and OSX. :(\r<br\/>\r<br\/>sigfig: Oho! That I can do."},{"author_name":"Beanalby","author_uid":"11055","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:16am","epoch":1367280660,"text":"Installed pyglet manually, errored with:\r<br\/>pyglet.media.riff.WAVEFormatException: AVbin is required to decode compressed media\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Tried downloading pyglet.msi from http:\/\/www.pyglet.org\/download.html, running says &quot;You must be running Python 2.4 or later&quot;.  I'm running Python 2.7.  Oh well."},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:09am","epoch":1367283840,"text":"orz"},{"author_name":"pvwradtke","author_uid":"3728","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:58am","epoch":1367286780,"text":"This is twisted, but yet so fun :). Hard part was to get it working, but other that that, everything went smoothly."},{"author_name":"Masadow","author_uid":"22572","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:00am","epoch":1367286900,"text":"Is the game is to compile the game ? If yes, it's very challenging, good job !\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Seriously, I'm having problem to compile. Here python output :\r<br\/>\r<br\/>&quot;Traceback (most recent call last):\r<br\/>  File &quot;poke.py&quot;, line 3, in &lt;module&gt;\r<br\/>    import resources\r<br\/>  File &quot;C:\\Users\\delas_j\\Documents\\ludumdare\\resources.py&quot;, line 24, in &lt;module&gt;\r<br\/>    ow = pyglet.resource.media(&quot;ow.mp3&quot;, streaming=False)\r<br\/>  File &quot;C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\pyglet\\resource.py&quot;, line 610, in media\r<br\/>    return media.load(path, streaming=streaming)\r<br\/>  File &quot;C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\pyglet\\media\\__init__.py&quot;, line 1406, in load\r<br\/>    source = get_source_loader().load(filename, file)\r<br\/>  File &quot;C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\pyglet\\media\\__init__.py&quot;, line 1387, in load\r<br\/>    return riff.WaveSource(filename, file)\r<br\/>  File &quot;C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\pyglet\\media\\riff.py&quot;, line 201, in __init__\r<br\/>    'AVbin is required to decode compressed media')\r<br\/>pyglet.media.riff.WAVEFormatException: AVbin is required to decode compressed media&quot;"},{"author_name":"Royal Railway","author_uid":"6155","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:30am","epoch":1367292300,"text":"Fa-fa-fanfare&lt;3"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:37am","epoch":1367296320,"text":"Masadow: You need to install avbin. &gt;_&gt; I forgot about that part."},{"author_name":"stevejohnson","author_uid":"3120","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:03am","epoch":1367301480,"text":"Mac users may have to run with &quot;arch -i386 python poke.py&quot;, possibly using the Python from python.org (not the system Python, which is only 64-bit). Alternatively, you could try distributing with pyglet 1.2alpha. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyway, I was thoroughly entertained. :-D"},{"author_name":"ananasblau","author_uid":"3562","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:39am","epoch":1367307240,"text":"score of 52.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>go team potato!"},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:28am","epoch":1367313780,"text":"Always move back towards the center before the screen changes. That's the trick to good potato eye popping."},{"author_name":"nilstastic","author_uid":"2443","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:39am","epoch":1367318040,"text":"Pros: potatoes! (or, one)\r<br\/>Cons: A bit simplistic.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Python is actually a nice language but in LD being able to deploy to various targets (as well as web) helps a lot. I would recommend Haxe and NME, works like a charm. =)"},{"author_name":"HelkeGames","author_uid":"20522","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1367605200,"text":"Potato! Nice game, vey cool great job :D"},{"author_name":"little_polygon","author_uid":"19295","time":"May 8, 2013 @ 2:39am","epoch":1367980440,"text":"All the flash-fades from white kinda hurt *my* eyes."},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"May 8, 2013 @ 11:46am","epoch":1368013260,"text":"I originally had a mottled blue and white background, but I felt like it didn't mesh with the single-color of the potato and pupil-less eyes. The file is still included in the source distribution because I didn't think to take it out. ^_^;"},{"author_name":"daniel2357","author_uid":"21129","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 10:30am","epoch":1368267900,"text":"Don't have Mac OSX"},{"author_name":"cardboard","author_uid":"16294","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 3:20am","epoch":1368328500,"text":"Nice incorporation of a potato. The game was pleasant and short. Not much replay value. The ending fanfare was funny :)"}],"images":["ld26\/16689-0afaddfce6574b0efeb05019dc7cf91a.jpg","ld26\/16689-c3e017d0a41469f19ef52fa4f9db30f5.jpg","ld26\/16689-ebdddc395769c3cca1fca40fbf5f81ca.jpg","ld26\/16689-8ffc1b1f055f63827cdb8220d7b7d6c4.jpg","ld26\/16689-49d38f26d8391e4cdbce8f55c6e39c82.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Crowbeak\/LD26","text":"GitHub"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/7e3k2ed7ahh2w3u\/wydM464fSz","text":"Python2.7\/Mac OSX (Dropbox)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2013\/04\/28\/oh-frell-this-im-done-also-postmortem\/","text":"Postmortem"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26275","g_author":"16689","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26305","g_title":"Poke","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1104","g_commentcount":"31","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/16689-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/16689-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/16689-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/16689-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/16689-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"How many can you poke before the time runs out?\r\n\r\nUPDATE # 2:There's a Mac OSX app now! ^_^ Steve Johnson helped me get that working. Next stop: windows .exe.<\/p>","title":"Poke"}