Devlog 13 !!

What’s New:

• I added Reset All Settings to default button, to reset every thing to the “Factory Setting”
• New setting, users can adjust how fast the typewriter writes on the screen
• If the user passes the mini game and lands successfully, they would unlock the option to just play the minigame instead of have to go through the the whole story again

Notes:

• I promised that I will release web, I tried, failed miserably, so I am just releasing a new .exe
• I tried everything to 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)

Devlog #12 !!

What I did:

• So as u guys know I added audio controls in the previous devlog, I made it even better now
• The settings menu is now in pygame instead of tkinter
• The slider changes color as the volume is changed (It looks so cool!!!!! )
• There is a new “Mute All Sounds” check box

Notes:

• 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
• After I make the switch I can finally publish it to the web so you guys don’t have to download the source code or an .exe file (I was planning to do this, I got many reviews saying that a website would be better, so I am doing that)

Devlog #11 !!!

What I did:

• So I switched from 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
• Added a settings menu to control the volume of the background music and the emergency sounds. The user preferences are saved using a .json file
• Updated my README.md so the instructions to how to play my game on another operating system aren’t broken
• Thanks to my ship suggestion, I am trying my best to implement those suggestions into my game and have already done so with a few of them!!

What might be coming next:

• I hope that I can add to the settings menu so the user can control how they want the colors to look in the game, so basically full customization.

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.

Fixed the bug made the buttons disappear if your screen was too small or you weren’t fullscreened

v2.0.0 I think??

What’s New:

• New Landing minigame!!
• 3 difficulties
• The minigame features SPIKES!!
• Improved GUI

Changes:

• I orginally started building my game on 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.
• Also, pygame is not supported in Python 3.14 so I had to do pip install pygame --ce the community edition
• I got it to work and I am so proud
• The video is a bit speed up

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.

v 1.0.1 is incoming!!

What’s New:

• Switched from the package of playsound to ctypes
• New SFXs, listen to them in the attachment

(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

Finished my README and fixed crash bug with typewriter when the window is closed while it is typing

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

Made my fuselage and rear wing out of foam board for my final design RC Plane design

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.

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

Added 1st Choice Branch, worked on storyline, started to work on 2nd choice branch

I added nose protector for reinforcements, moved battery slot towards the nose to shift center of gravity and made it bigger to make it compatible with many types of batteries. Also added wire cut-out to fit wires

Added Sweep Angle, reduced the size of the tail, fixed motor mount dimension and made the front fuselage and wing reinforcements bigger

Made Test Plane 3- V Tail Design

Made Test Plane 2- Plank Design✈️