This is the project I have been quasi working on for a few weeks. It is to be a nearly completely user made game. what I will be making is the framework and a 10 level level pack to demonstrate what it can do.

This game will have two parts to its release version
The game engine that takes the levelpack files and lets you play the game.

utilities for making your own fully customized levelpacks

The Goals for the game engine part in order of importance:
Do not limit the player and developer too much from possible games
Provide interesting ways to play
Protect from crashes
have easter eggs(this very bottom level)

The Goals For utilities in oder of importance:
Easy interface
allows easy customization of levels, weapons, enemies, obstacles, characters
creates safe levels
almost no limits on what it can make
ability to compile into a not too large level pack

This game will have you be able to create custom weapons, and obstacles. You can assign those weapons to players and enemies. The obstacles can then be utilized in levels. All of these are then compiled into a level pack file. they will all be written in hexadecimal code.
The point of each level will be to move from a predetermined starting point to a 'flag'(you choose the image for this in the level customization. There can be enemies with very simple events set for their appearance(you picking up a nearby weapon, you getting to a certain point, or with a timer). These enemies can have either predetermined weapons or a weapon from a random selection of weapons you said are possible for it to use(the possible weapons are set while customizing the enemy the when/where they pop out and what weapons they have is set in the level file). there can be obstacles with set images/fill color/transparency that you set if htey do damage and/or impede movement if so by what percent. You make players saying what weapons they can use, whether they can double jump, whether they can crouch, with how much speed they jump and how much health they start with out of 100%. YOu put all of these things together into a level, you decide what player is used on that level, what obstacles and where they will be(this will be on  a grid I don't want it to be pixel by pixel), when and where enemies pop out(from that same grid), what the power of gravity is, where the flag and starting points are and images for those places

Now I've told about the game(more information later) what do you guys think the name should be?


Here is like the bare frame of the games code
#import neeeded modules
import pygame
import math
import sys
import random
import binhex
from pygame.locals import *

gravity=0

#check to make sure pygame is working
if not pygame.font:
    print 'Warning, fonts disabled'
if not pygame.mixer:
    print 'Warning, sound disabled'

#functions to create our resources
def load_image(name, colorkey=None):
    fullname = os.path.join('data', name)
    try:
        image = pygame.image.load(fullname)
    except pygame.error, message:
        print 'Cannot load image:', fullname
        raise SystemExit, message
    image = image.convert()
    if colorkey is not None:
        if colorkey is -1:
            colorkey = image.get_at((0,0))
        image.set_colorkey(colorkey, RLEACCEL)
    return image, image.get_rect()

def load_sound(name):
    class NoneSound:
        def play(self): pass
    if not pygame.mixer or not pygame.mixer.get_init():
        return NoneSound()
    fullname = os.path.join('data', name)
    try:
        sound = pygame.mixer.Sound(fullname)
    except pygame.error, message:
        print 'Cannot load sound:', fullname
        raise SystemExit, message
    return sound

#functions to get the stats for ingame objects
def getEnemyStats(ID):
    return {}

def getObstacleStats(ID):
    return {}

def getPlayerStats(ID):
    return {}

def getWeaponStats(ID):
    return {}

#function to get all the level data
def getLevel(ID):
    return {}

#function to get the constants for the game
def getConstants(levelpack):
    return {}

#class for enemies
class Enemy(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
   
    def __init__(self, name, ID):
        stats=getEnemyStats(ID)#get this enemies stats
        #define needed variables
        self.name=name
        self.ID=ID
        self.danger=0
        self.jump=0
        self.gravity=0
        self.xvel=0
        self.yvel=0
        self.area.bottom=599
        self.area.right=599
   
    def update(self):
        if not self.danger or self.jump:#check to see if there is a special situation
            if stats[speed]:#see if this is a moving enemy and at what speed it would move
                newpos=self.rect.move((speed,self.gravity))
            else:
                newpos=self.rect.move((0, self.gravity))           
        elif self.danger:#see if the enemy is in danger
            self.evade()
            return 0
        elif self.jump:#see if the enemy is jumping
            newpos=((self.xvel,self.yvel-self.gravity))
        self.rect=newpos#move the enemy to its new position
   
    #implement the force of gravity
    def gravity(self):
        #need a collision detector here
        if self.rect.bottom>=self.area.bottom:
            self.downforce=0
            self.jump=0
            self.change=0
            self.rect.bottom=599
        else:
            self.downforce+=1/constants[gravity]
   
    #evade danger
    def evade():
        return 0

def engine():
    return 1

def playGame(run):
    #start set_up
    while run:

        clock.tick(constant[speed])

        #run game engine
        engine()

        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == QUIT:
                pygame.quit()
                return
            elif event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_ESCAPE:
                pygame.quit()
                return
            if event.type == MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
                sets=pygame.mouse.get_pressed()
                if sets[0]==1:
                    pass
            elif event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_LEFT:
                player.left()
            elif event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_RIGHT:
                player.right()
            else:
                player.still()

        allsprites.update()

    #Draw Everything
        screen.blit(background, (0, 0))
        allsprites.draw(screen)
        pygame.display.flip()

def collidedetect(defense,offense):
    if offense.rect.left<defense.rect.right:
        if offense.rect.left>defense.rect.left:
            if offense.rect.top<defense.rect.bottom:
                if offense.rect.top>defense.rect.top:
                    return 1
            elif offense.rect.bottom<defense.rect.bottom:
                if offense.rect.bottom>defense.rect.top:
                    return 1
    elif offense.rect.right>defense.rect.left:
        if offense.rect.right<defense.rect.right:
            if offense.rect.top<defense.rect.bottom:
                if offense.rect.top>defense.rect.top:
                    return 3
            elif offense.rect.bottom<defense.rect.botom:
                if offense.rect.bottom>defense.rect.top:
                    return 3
    elif offense.rect.top<defense.rect.bottom:
        if offense.rect.top>defense.rect.top:
            if offense.rect.left>defense.rect.left:
                if offense.rect.left<defense.rect.right:
                    return 2
            elif offense.rect.right<defense.rect.right:
                if offense.rect.right>defense.rect.left:
                    return 2
    elif offense.rect.bottom<defense.rect.bottom:
        if offense.rect.bottom>defense.rect.top:
            if offense.rect.left>defense.rect.left:
                if offense.rect.left<defense.rect.right:
                    return 0
            elif offense.rect.right<defense.rect.right:
                if offense.rect.right>defense.rect.left:
                    return 0
    else:
        return 5

def main():
    run=1
    playGame()
    return 1

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        levelpack=sys.argv[1]#get the levelpacks name
    except IndexError:
        print "need a valid levelpack file or folder"
        exit(1)
    constants=getConstants(levelpack)#find out the needed constants
    main()I have lots of work to do

I went to a Comp programming 3 week course at NSU in Louisiana and on the first day they kicked me out for knowing all they were going to teach us. I am now in Puzzles, Games and Logic which has almost no games, but a lot of learning logic and using it for puzzles.

I am currently in the 4th day of class and have learned a few very interesting things liek how to speak basic logic(yes there is a language and they call it sentential.)  We are learning from the Languages of Logic by Samuel Guttenplan and we have an awesome teacher.

Have any of you ever taken this course or any course on logic and if so what did you think of it? Do you have any advice for someone taking it in hyper accelerated mode?

I was browsing some of the paradox lie math equations I enjoy reading about and came upon 1+1+1+1+1=-1/2. Well the article on it has been vandalized to include the image of a naked man. who can fix this and why do you think people do this

Do not go to this if you are somewhere obscene images would get you in trouble. Its not a good thing to see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_1_%2B_1_%2B_1_%2B_%C2%B7_%C2%B7_%C2%B7 is the page
this text is put by the image

Emilio Elizalde presents an anecdote on attitudes toward the series:

I have participated in duke TIP and just yesterday I got 3 awards. Grand, State and a TCU scholarship for auditing a summer course which I unfortunately will not be able to do becaus eof my crazy summer schedule. I was one of only 3 people who qualified for the scholarship out of everyone there(about 3-500 people I think. Took 45 min to read all the names. and those were just the people who got state)

Duke TIP is a program by Duke university to find and educate Gifted and talented students. Its main course os for 7th grade students. It has them take either the ACT or SAT college entrance exams. there are two levels of recognition in it. state and Grand.
State is: top 50% of everyone who takes the test(mainly high school students for college)
ACT

ACT English ≥ 20
ACT Math ≥ 20
ACT Reading ≥ 21
ACT Science ≥ 21
* Or with three of the four following scores English = 19, Math = 19, Reading = 20, Science = 20

SAT

SAT Math ≥ 520
SAT Critical Reading ≥ 510
SAT Writing ≥ 500
*Or with two of the three following scores: Math = 510, Critical Reading = 500, Writing = 490

Grand is:top 10% of everyone who takes the test(mainly high school students for college)
ACT

ACT English ≥ 28
ACT Math ≥ 28
ACT Reading ≥ 30
ACT Science ≥ 26
ACT Composite ≥ 26

SAT

SAT Math ≥ 670
SAT Critical Reading ≥650
SAT Writing ≥ 650
SAT Math + Critical Reading + Writing ≥ 1850

I took the ACT and got
30 composite(96 percentile)
26 English
28 Science
32 Mathematics
36 Reading(99 percentile)
The percentile are out of all students who take the test(mainly high schoolers taking it for college)

[offtopic]I really hate dressing up for events like this. I had too where a tie comb my hair(which I never do if I can avoid it). My parents did allow me to where my nice looking black tennis shoes instead of dress shoes.

I have recently gotten a 16gb kingston data traveller 101 usb. I thought it would be nice to have mint or at least a version of mint with me all the time so I decided to create a USB with highest persistence possible(9999mb on unetbootin 4gb on Disk creator. I first tried with unetbootin and it failed with error message could not find kernel image: vesamenu.c32I then tried with the mint disk creator and got the same error. How can I get this working and is it possible to have it working with unetbootin which I would prefer because it lets me have higher persistence

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I could use lots of processor power so I can overclock my programs at very high fps's.

EDIT:budget-up to $1000 but preferably under $700