Differential Equation Munchers
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What's this?
This is Differential Equation Munchers, a parody of Number Munchers, in case you weren't fortunate enough to be able to play it in your elementary school Apple II lab.Non-Legal:
You have my permission to redistribute and change this. Please mention me, or link to my site or something, if you do, though.
Also, this hasn't been thoroughly tested for safety or anything, but I don't think there's any potential for harm. (no system calls to my recollection that could cause potential harm, and only one file written.) I personally run this on my main user (unlike my Feed Getter program, for instance). But I won't hold it against you if you don't.
Legal (sorry)
Releases
Version 0.3 Sun, April 12, 2008
Some people may be interested to try this game out, but never studied Differential Equations, so I decided to add a cheat key in this version. Run the game with the argument "game_cheat", and cheatability is enabled. Hit the "c" key during gameplay, and the wrong answers will momentarily dissapear, showing you the correct answers to munch.
Instructions:If you're on Windows and you don't have Python or Pygame, and would like to get them along with the game, get the zip file (below) with the appropriate installers included. Otherwise, get the game by itself. Linux users can usually get Python and Pygame from their repositories, and I understand that OSX users can use Macports. Run diffEqMunchers.py to play, and look at README.txt for more details.
DownloadsCross-Platform: Diff Eq Munchers 0.3, in tar.bz2 file.
Cross-Platform: Diff Eq Munchers 0.3, in zip file.
Windows: Diff Eq Munchers 0.3, with Pygame installer, in zip file.
Windows: Diff Eq Munchers 0.3, with Python and Pygame installers, in zip file.
Dependencies:Version 0.2 Fri, March 21, 2008
This version doesn't have any more features or changes in looks, but the files are better organized, and setting up/running should be more straightforward. I've made versions with Windows installers for Python and Pygame, and I now have a README file.
Instructions:If you're on Windows and you don't have Python or Pygame, and would like to get them along with the game, get the zip file (below) with the appropriate installers included. Otherwise, get the game by itself. Run diffEqMunchers.py to play, and look at README.txt for details.
DownloadsCross-Platform: Diff Eq Munchers 0.2, in tar.bz2 file.
Cross-Platform: Diff Eq Munchers 0.2, in zip file.
Windows: Diff Eq Munchers 0.2, with Pygame installer, in zip file.
Windows: Diff Eq Munchers 0.2, with Python and Pygame installers, in zip file.
Dependencies:Version 0.1 Wed, Feb 6, 2008
This version is my first release version. It's fully functional, but needs a lot of work in aesthetics, and seems like it could use some optimization in the timing loop. It definitely needs a larger variety of Differential Equations questions and different types of Troggles. Also, if I release it on a larger scale, I will probably work more on the engine, which will allow for cleaner looking game scripts (for instance, I'll have a built-in Animation construct, instead of doing them manually as I do now).
Dependencies: Instructions:Extract the tar file. In the extracted directory, type:
python main.py
The menu controls are Up, Down, and space. The game controls are in the "Instructions" section.