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Flutterly's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #22 | 1.768 | 2.500 |
| Humor | #23 | 1.503 | 2.125 |
| Theme | #23 | 2.386 | 3.375 |
| Graphics/Art | #24 | 2.121 | 3.000 |
| Fun | #25 | 1.591 | 2.250 |
| Mood | #25 | 2.033 | 2.875 |
| Overall | #25 | 1.856 | 2.625 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Source code repository
https://github.com/abrightmoore/butterflies
Tools used
PyGame - for display and UI. See https://www.pygame.org/
GIMP - for pixel art. See https://www.gimp.org/
Notepad++ - for debugging and logging
Audacity - for audio processing
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It's a nice experience, I enjoyed myself for a bit. It's nice just watching them, gathering up new patterns... It has the sort of feel that those old "collect the frog/leapord/whatever" games from '08 had, but more relaxing and way less gimmicky. Very unique!
Nice music and good concept! I like how the patterns are (I assume) procedurally generated. The butterfly movement was a bit to jittery for me. Smoothing out the motion might make the experience more relaxing.
If I were to move this past the jam I'd definitely have simpler levels earlier with the complexity building up to jittery fluttering butterflies. I'll keep your feedback in mind - thank you!
Got the game running after fixing my own error. I have to say it was a quite relaxing experience collecting butterflies. Also, the butterfly generation made a variety of interesting creations. Additionally, the music complemented the mood of the game nicely.
Thanks for the feedback and apologies on the challenges getting it running!
I seem to get an error on Windows 10 with the message:
Replied on discord - source looks OK my end and runs ok on Win10 python 2.7.13 for me.
Oop, that was an "In Between My Ears Issue". I commented out the print statements trying to make it run in python3, but I completely forgot I made those changes. Sorry about that.
For future reference, there’s a
2to3program (probably included with yourpython3distribution) that can automagically convert a python2 program to python3 (I used that here and it worked fine).I encountered a few errors:
print statements lacked parentheses. running 2to3 -w main.py fixed this.
the music file in your itch.io package looks for ABMusic.mp3 but the file is named abmusic.mp3
I believe you should call pygame.mixer.init() right after pygame.init() in the initializeDisplay function
Curious - are you testing on Linux?
Yes, on Linux. Python 3.7 and Pygame 1.9.6