Game Progress

We have been working on our rice rocks game. We have been looking to add even more features such as the overheat bar and a life meter. We also need to add fun scoring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIN50UMRehY

Inspiration

Ideas for Making Games Great

• Create an interesting user interface that still remains functional
• Integrate a hint system so player doesn't get frustrated
• Diversify the gameplay to keep the player interested.
• Avoid repetitive tedious tasks. 
• Integrate High score memory to keep the player playing. 
• Have "Fun" scores that aren't just intervals of 1
• Interesting Color palette
• Interesting and Satisfying sounds
• Give the user gratification or progression for playing.

Pygame Particle Physics

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20086067/fluid-like-characteristics-with-pygame

I came across this thread on stackoverflow regarding the use of fluid like particle physics. This could be integrated well into explosions and adding gravity. These particle physics would help take the game to the next level and increase the production value.

Integrating Pygame Physics Engine

Link to Tutorial

This tutorial details the in depth physics usage in pygame. This would be a fantastic integration into rice rocks that would take the game to the next level.

Model of collision physics in pygame

Pygame physics engine in action with collisions

Rice Rocks Physics

Gif of Physics

The physics in the working version of rice rocks need to be updated to remove the bouncing aspect. The rocks and ship bounce throughout their movement. This movement makes the game close to unplayable and is essential to creating a polished game.

Finding Clip Art and Assets for Rice Rocks

In our groups version of rice rocks we are now including transparent clip art png form art. We have been searching google by file type for art we can include and that will be aesthetically pleasing.

Rice Rocks in Github

I found a rice rocks repository on Github. This includes comments and revisions on the repository that are helpful for making a highly polished code. This also includes all the resources such as photos and animations. There are also forks off of the repo that have modified version to analyze.