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@Al
My own python adventure game where the player starts is a Flight Director at NASA. There objective is to successfully launch, navigate and land there spacecraft on the surface of Mars
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pygbag sizing issuesetting.json file in the .gitignore for testing purposes and I forgot about it so my settings are what were seen by others instead of the factory settings they should have seen
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pygbag is causing it via my deploy.yml
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pygame then I ran pygbag so it is now finally live on GitHub Pages
What did you make?
I made The Ares Horizon, a Python space adventure game where you play as a NASA Flight Director. Since my last ship, I over-hauled the game by adding a brand-new landing minigame with 3 difficulties, branch-linked storylines, and dynamic custom themes.
What was challenging?
Ditching Tkinter for Pygame was tough because I had to learn the library from scratch to eliminate bugs. I also lost 5 hours failing to host it on the web via noVNC/Docker, forcing me to stick to an .exe. Fixing cross-platform crashes and making it run smoothly on Python 3.14 was a huge headache.
What are you proud of?
I’m proud of building a robust Pygame + Tkinter interface with zero prior experience. The settings menu features a slick volume slider that changes color dynamically, a factory reset, and a text-speed slider. I also successfully added a seamless “Try Again” tracker without long loading screens.
What should people know so they can test your project?
pip install pygame --ce to avoid compilation errors.
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.exe
pygame, didn’t work out, then tried to host it on noVNC, it acted up to, I finally gave up after 5 hrs of trying, didn’t count that because that was trial and error and not actual coding (although I did had to make and modify my Dockerfile like a 100 times)
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pygame instead of tkinter
tkinter sucks, I loved it at first it was easy but as my code becomes more complex it just causes unnecessary bugs, so I plan to switch entirely to pygame
.exe file (I was planning to do this, I got many reviews saying that a website would be better, so I am doing that)1h 33m 55s logged
ctypes to the pygame audio engine this is so when my game is played on MacOS or Linux it doesn’t throw errors because ctypes is a Windows thing.json file
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My first ship is finally here, after 3 changes requested, I added a try again screen so the user doesn’t have to through the loading when they try again now it just shows there tries. Thanks for the idea from my first ship.
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Fixed the bug made the buttons disappear if your screen was too small or you weren’t fullscreened
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tkinter thinking it would be easy because my rest of the code was build on it, but I was wrong, it was so annoying to work with and caused so many bugs that I decided to switch to pygame I have never worked with pygame before so I ha to learn and then figure out a way to combine tkinter and pygame.pygame is not supported in Python 3.14 so I had to do pip install pygame --ce the community edition1h 5m 24s logged
I cleaned up the UI and linked the Solar Sails choice in branch 2 to the ending choice of branch 1.
I know I promised that the update after the SFX one would be customization but I want to focus more on the game itself so I would just be adding a Dark and Light mode. And doing more customization options later.
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playsound to ctypes
(After this update rolls out, I will be working on given the user the freedom to customize how they want the game to look)
Turn up your sound to listen to the sounds
I cut out the parts where I selected options so that I don’t reveal the answers, if you want to try it out your self head over The Ares Horizon Repo
I made my own choice python adventure game where the player takes a high-stake role of a Flight Director at NASA and there objective is to successfully launch, navigate and land a spacecraft on the surface of Mars. To play the game follow the steps in the README. (The game uses Desktop-Based GUI, so it cannot be hosted on clouds and has to run on your local computer). I am proud of how I made it look cinematic and similar to a NASA mission control terminal.
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Finished my README and fixed crash bug with typewriter when the window is closed while it is typing
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Currently working on my README for this project and before this I just fix a few things in my code. Added a background music loop that loops the audio forever and then fixed a crash bug
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Added GUI to my games, fixed countless errors and bugs, added a loaded screen, Made it so that the buttons are interactive and only popup when the typing is finished. Added more colors to my text. Progress bar for the points.
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Finished all the choice, added typewriter function and color function. Changed how I want the text to be displayed when the code is running. Added background music. Made the background audio in Canva
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Added 1st Choice Branch, worked on storyline, started to work on 2nd choice branch
