Machine

I've been hacking on my own in Python + Pygame, and now have a primitive player sprite and controls working. The player can jump and will fall right off the screen as he doesn't collide with anything.

The next tasks I will be working on:

• A Level class, which for now will be a single screen (i.e. no scrolling) and loads the level layout from a text file. The benefits of doing this with a text file:
1. It's not as verbose as XML
2. It allows a level editor to be written to output files in this format
3. It's simple
4. levels can be hand crafted / tweaked if necessary.

• Collisions, at first just getting the Player to collide with the ground after a jump so he doesn't fall off screen
• Scrolling background - this is potentially impossible to do smoothly in pygame, in which case we can look at pyglet et. al.
• Enemies - can be static at first, then add movement and attacks
• Add attacks to Player class and regognise hits on enemies and vice versa
• Animation - sprite based movement animation for Player, first of all.

Any suggestions for file format for levels would be appreciated. Anyone that wants to help hacking, fork my repo at http://github.com/jozzas/Machine, have a go and issue me a pull request. If you want to, add a task to our "Issues" tracker so I know you're working on it.

Cheers,

- John