I’ve been reviewing Liberated Pixel Cup Games. This is one of the 48 Games.
Disclaimer: I’m competing in the cup too! I am not a judge!
World’s Crappiest Hero [Download me] [Github Repository]
This is a Single Player Stealth Game. It’s made in Python, and requires Pyglet as well as PyTMXLoader. Since Fedora packages neither, setting it up required downloading each tarball, and running “python setup.py install –user” with your normal user. (Thanks for the tip, bochecha!).
It’s easy to install these libraries, and the Readme does provide instructions for PyTMXLoader.
After installing the dependencies… python src/run.py starts up the game.
You’re a soldier, one that’s kind of sick (In the stomach) and really needs to find a magical toilet. To do so, you can walk around some maps, while avoiding the guards that are protecting the magical toilet. Each guard walks in a pattern and has a specific “Field of Vision”. Whenever you get caught, that guard’s field of vision is revealed.
The game features 3 different maps/levels and is quite short. It does make great use of the Toilet Tilesets that were submitted for the contest though, hah.
> “Since Fedora packages neither, setting it up required downloading each tarball, and running “python setup.py install” using root.”
That works, but it pollutes your system Python PATH.
Instead, you can do:
$ python setup.py install –user
And that will install everything in ~/.local
Damn, I wish I had known that! Now I’ve got a very polluted Python PATH!