Afflicted by COVID-19—asymptomatic but for a sore throat— I suddenly found myself stuck in isolation until a lateral flow test dictated otherwise. Naturally, I roped in two friends to join me in bunking off the catch-up schoolwork I was supposed to be doing to take part in a game jam.
For me, it was that, or do online shopping and watch all eight seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine in one sitting (again).
At the time I was a staff member of tbe Python Discord community, and I had been meaning to take part in a PyWeek for a while. So why not.
We ended up starting work on the game a couple days late. But no matter, we finished on time. After being judged against the other 13 entries, we were awarded the top spot for our retro sci-fi puzzle game.
We were quite pleased that many judges couldn’t beat all the levels!
Check out the source code on GitHub.