Zerkcom

A retro videogame mashup of Atari 2600 Combat tanks and Bezerk. Status: Displays moving tanks, but isn't a game yet.

Description

Single player game, use arrow keys or WASD, and space.

See 'zerkcom -h' for command-line options.

Screenshot

Dependencies

Python 2.7. Developed on OSX until 2014-09, might still work there. Developed on Ubuntu 14.04 currently.

For dependencies see setup.py.

Install

For programmers:

pip install zerkcom

Run the game:

zerkcom

Use --help to list options.

For real people: Wait for 'double-click to run' binaries, not available yet.

Known Problems

Nothing works yet. See TODO.rst

Hacking

To install dependencies, run 'make deps' on Ubuntu. Elsewhere, you'll have to transcribe those commands into your own dialect. This will also install executable script 'zerkcom' into your virtualenv bin dir, in "setup.py develop" mode.

Requires pyglet 1.2 (so that it works on 32 and 64 bit Python, and on OSX, removes dependency on pyobjc) At time of writing this is not released to PyPI, so we use a local copy saved in pypackages/.

To install the extra requirements needed to develop, e.g. to run tests:

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Run tests:

make test

See the Makefile for other handy reminders of commands I use a lot.

Thanks

Pyglet-users mailing list participants Richard, Andy, for invaluable advice, corrections and reassurance. The circus of genius game creators at Nolan Bushnell's original Atari.

Contact

Download & Documentation (for users): http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zerkcom (actually, not uploaded yet.)
Souce code and issues (for hackers): https://github.com/tartley/zerkcom
Contact the author: Jonathan Hartley, email: tartley at domain tartley.com, Twitter: @tartley.

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