Devils Tower

A puzzle / exploration game that heavily relies on procedural generation.

I wasn't too excited about the theme Tower at first and when searching the web, I stumbled on the "Devils Tower" in Wyoming, USA, which looked like a shape I could more or less generate and thus decided to build a game that takes place around the Devils Tower.

Most of the time, I spent writing various parts of procedural generators as a basis to generate geometry, place objects, etc. Also a notable amount of time I invested in things I wasn't even sure whether they would come in handy later on...

As a challenge I wrote a veeery basic collision system more or less from the ground up. I obviously didn't want to implement linear algebra ops from scratch, when I have libraries that do that faster than I could ever optimize a piece of code... I did implement a quadtree just because I wanted to at the beginning, which in the end proved very helpful together with the collision system.

This was a blast and I'm looking forward to playing all the games in this contest :)

Instructions

I purposely did not add a bunch of text in the game. When you find one of the puzzles and solved it, you can just move away. To close the instructions on Nonogram either press one of these buttons:
(space, enter, right or middle mouse-button).

You can switch to wireframe view with F1 inside the game at any time.

Have fun!!

Credits

•  Using Nonogram for puzzles was the idea of my good friend Evelyne
•  SFX and the song playing in the background are from my neighbor/friend Joel
•  The Panda3D community for helping me figure out  technical problems

Special Thanks to

• Kathy for keeping my back free during this jam week so I could focus 100% on creating this
• Evelyne to help brainstorm ideas and help me keep my motivation when I got frustrated
• My neighbor joel, both for the music and the regular requests to come outside to let our dogs play in the garden -> the only fresh air I got in 7 days :P
• rdb for motivating me to take part in this competition in the first place

Links

Repository on GitHub https://github.com/tcdude/pyweek28
Entry page on pyweek.org https://pyweek.org/e/tizilogic/