Spaceball 2000 - 1_1

Finaly got around to make walkthroughs for the game: level 1-15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aeie5tNt_M level 16-30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YcPeCcrRM

Indeed, i am running linux most of the time (BSD the other).
I already know how to fix that, since this it not the first time that i (or someone else) run into these kind of problems. That's why you should use os-path.

instead of

if sys.platform == 'darwin':
self.resourceFolder = 'Resources/'
self.levelFolderUser = self.resourceFolder + 'levels/user/'
self.levelFolderStory = self.resourceFolder + 'levels/story/'
else:
self.resourceFolder = 'Resources\\'
self.levelFolderUser = self.resourceFolder + 'levels\\user\\'
self.levelFolderStory = self.resourceFolder + 'levels\\story\\'

you can simply write

self.levelFolderUser = os.path.join("Resources","levels","user")
self.levelFolderStory = os.path.join("Resources","levels","story")

thats 2 lines of code vs. 8 lines of code.

Believe me, when i started programming, i had similiar problems, so why not use the powerful tools pygame offers?

Are you using some kind of IDE? I recommend eclipse/pydev to you, it will make your live much easier.

And yeah, that's really one of the messiest code i've ever seen ;)
When coding in python, i always catch myself not to observe the laws of OOP (like Encapsulation), which causes problems when a project is getting bigger and bigger....

Instead of using a class for storing the images, i would recommend to use a load-function and a dict:

def load_image(imagename):
try:
image = pygame.image.load(os.path.join("Ressources","images",imagename)).convert()
except pygame.error, message:
print 'Cannot load image:', name
raise SystemExit, message
return image

self.images={'moveableCube':load_image('Movable_cube.jpg'),
'metall':load_image(metall_640x640_img.jpg'),
'glass':load_image(glass_640x640_img.tga)
...}

Also try using PNG rather than TGA if you don't really really need TGA.

I wonder why nobody else is writing a comment, since your game is really good, the graphics are great, i like it!

Hey!
Thanks for getting back to me with the bug.
I only discovered how to split classes over sevral files when i was like 2-3 months into the project, so it's pretty messy code in general.

I presume you are running linux, i haven't got linux so it's hard for me to check that things are working there, i've got it running on some linux boxes, but it seem to be alot of different things going wrong on diffrent versions of
linux.
if you go to line 2226 you will see:
if sys.platform == 'darwin':
I think you will have to put in something like:
if sys.platform == 'darwin' or sys.platform.startswith('linux'):

Not sure if this will solve the problem, but it just might. I think the
sys.path.append worked on your system, it tries different things on diferent platforms to get it working, if not it should have printed that it could not append the path. see line 2294 for the sys.path.append stuff.

If you are not running linux, please post your system here, and i will try to sort it out for you. :)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Spaceball 2000 V1_1.py", line 2392, in <module>
Root = root()
File "Spaceball 2000 V1_1.py", line 2239, in __init__
self.currentLevel = self.levelFolder + os.listdir(self.levelFolder)[1]## must be changed with config file
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Resources\\levels\\story\\'

to access files, you should really really use os.path.join("first_folder","another_folder","the_file"), and try to avoid white-spaces in your filename. It's just to ugly to run $ python Spaceball\ 2000\ V1_1.py.

Try to split your classes over several files, that would really increase the readability of the code.