This is a reminder: Don't compile stackless in 64 bit mode on a Macbook Pro. Just don't. It will give you bus errors and segfaults on Keyboard Interrupts and sys.exit()'s. You will get annoyed and fire up gdb and ddd and try to debug it, and realise that it is a rabbit hole of gigantic proportions.
Just compile 32-bit and save yourself the headache. Others have the samewisdom.
Just make sure any libs built that need to link against compiled python libraries (i.e. syncless) are also built in 32 bit mode, or you will get undefined symbol errors.
I have been trying to get a game done for a competition. The idea is that you create a game (for up to four players) that uses only one button (each): No extra directional inputs, keys, triggers, rotors, or Rez Vibrators. Ok, so that last one was output rather than input, but you get my drift. My friend Jack made an awesome one button game, which you can take a look at here.
Well, it has been hard. I started 2 weeks ago, when I was setting off on my annual family holiday. I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do, and if I could push myself into that area at least, I might have a chance of pulling it off, or at least discover something close by that was equally, if not more, fantastic. I snatched 20 minute programming sessions every now and then during the week, and got a really basic framework up and running, with some 5 minute graphics, but really not much else. Once home I lost a few days (nights) to sheer exhaustion. A bit more work done during the week fixing stuff that wasn't working properly, and the end of the week was lost to preparing and launching *water rockets*.
This is what I have now:
Basically the (small) red things are turrets which you can fire - weapon selection, angle, and power is handled with various length presses of a single button. The projectiles move and interact realistically using proper 2d physics rules.
With the Jan 30 deadline looming, and Global GameJam happening next weekend (beginning Friday), I am really going to have to pull out all the stops to get something finished by Thursday night. It is going to need to be a bit simpler than the idea I originally had, but I think there is enough juice in here to still come up with something really fun, which is achievable within the deadline.
I headed down to Kosmic Sound's BUTT sale on the weekend. I was supposed to be going to take a look at electronic drumkits: we have kind of semi-destroyed our Guitar Hero drumkit. I had a good look at Roland's VDrum TD series, and the Yamaha DTXPlorers, and was very impressed but I didn't buy anything. Kosmic normally sells these at a decent discount anyway and being a solid seller there were no 'special prices' happening for the BUTT sale.
I did however happen to notice a rack of Telecasters as I was walking out. In particular I noticed a very cheap Squier Affinity Telecaster which I felt compelled to question the helpful sales staff about, and also to strum gently to determine it's musical qualities versus its (low low) price. One thing lead to another and with a last minute 'crazy deal' done on the already ludicrous price, I ended up buying it.
And I am really glad I did - I was impressed instore with the range of sounds I could get out of the pickups and tone controls, and with the general quality of the fretboard. It turns out that severalreviewsagree, and my advice is that if you are looking for a hella cheap Tele for general mucking around (I have always wanted one, so this was the perfect excuse), you can't go past this bad boy.
I got so excited by how nice it felt to play, I did this quick and dirty demo of Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond, using a backing track I found (also awesome, although tricky to time the first solo to match the chord changes). I mainly use the neck pickup for solo 1 and the bridge pickup for solo2, so you really don't get a taste of what the middle pickup selector position sounds like, but hopefully you get the idea. I just used the simple but effective Pedal/Amp simulator in Garageband to get these sounds, rather than wake the house up with the loud (but better sounding) tube amp option.
Apologies to anyone who either doesn't care about guitars, or doesn't care about Pink Floyd.
