PyWeek

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'''PyWeek''' is a bi-annual game programming challenge using the [[:Category:Python games|Python]] programming language. The contestants often use the game library for Python, [[Pygame]], OpenGL bindings [http://www.pyopengl.org/ PyOpenGL] and the [[Pyglet]] game and multimedia library. In total 7 PyWeek contests are completed. The seventh contest was finished on September 14<sup>th</sup>, 2008.

==Contests==
On pyweek.org, each contest has three stages:
*First, week-long vote on themes. There are always five possible choices that are chosen by a person not participating in the contest.
*Second, the actual competition that lasts for a week.
*Finally, 2 weeks of voting are allowed for all users who submitted a game or were part of a team that submitted a game to play and rate the other finalists.
Entries are judged on ''Fun'' - how fun the game was and how likely you are to play this in the future,
''Innovation'' - how new, interesting, fitting the theme the game was,
and ''Production'' - how clean the game design was, how nice the graphics/sfx/music were, a bug-less the game is, how polished it is. Most users will give a game with a good readme file a higher productions score as well.

Contests listed here are already completed.

*'''PyWeek 1: Power''': The overall winner of this contest was the game [[Dynamite]], the individual winner for this contest was the game [[Pawns: Power vs Responsibility]]. It took place in August 2005 on a different website, mechanicalcat.net. The contest ran August 27, 2005 through September 03, 2005.<ref>[http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/PyWeek/1 The site of the first ever PyWeek contest, hosted by Richard T. Jones. It has the results, homepage]</ref>
*'''PyWeek 2: It runs on steam!''': Individual winner is the game ''Nelly's Rooftop Garden''. Team entry is [[Trip on the Funny Boat]]. The contest ran March 26, 2006 through April 02, 2006.<ref>[http://pyweek.org/2/ Pyweek 2 page]</ref><ref>[http://media.pyweek.org/static/pyweek2_ratings.html pyweek 2 results page]</ref>
*'''PyWeek 3: The Disappearing Act''': The individual winner is [[Bouncy the Hungry Rabbit]] and the team winner is 'Typus Pocus''. It ran from September 3, 2006 to September 10, 2006.<ref>[http://pyweek.org/3/ Pyweek 3 page]</ref><ref>[http://media.pyweek.org/static/pyweek3_ratings.html pyweek 3 results page]</ref>
*'''PyWeek 4: The only way is up''': Individual winner is [[Which way is up?]] and team winner is [[Barbie Seahorse Adventures]] by [[The Olde Battleaxe]]. The contest ran from April 01, 2007 through April 08, 2007.<ref>[http://pyweek.org/4/ Pyweek 4 page]</ref><ref>[http://media.pyweek.org/static/pyweek4_ratings.html pyweek 4 results page]</ref>
*'''PyWeek 5: Twisted''': Individual winner is ''Disk Field'' and team winner is [[Wound Up!]]. The contest ran from September 02, 2007 through September 09, 2007.<ref>[http://pyweek.org/5/ Pyweek 5 page]</ref><ref>[http://media.pyweek.org/static/pyweek5_ratings.html pyweek 5 results page]</ref>
*'''Pyweek 6: Robot''': The team winner is ''Robot Underground'' and the individual winner is ''Invention''. It ran from March 30 to April 6 2008.<ref>[http://pyweek.org/6/ Pyweek 6 page]</ref>
*'''Pyweek 7: How long is a piece of string?''': The team winner is ''Kite Story'' and the individual winner is [[Stringrolled]]. It ran from September 07 to September 14.<ref>[http://pyweek.org/7/ Pyweek 7 page]</ref>

===Pygame.draw===

The ''Pyweek'' site also hosted the Pygame.draw challenge in which programmers are required to write a game using only the python standard library and Pygame, fitting everything in single file that must be 64kbytes in size or less.
As of June 26, 2006, the submissions are ready for download.<ref>[http://media.pyweek.org/static/pygame.draw-0606.html pygame.draw page on pyweek.org]</ref>

==History==

PyWeek was devised by [[Richard T. Jones]] as a response to his experiences competing in (and running) [[Ludum Dare]] 48-hour challenges.<ref>[http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/log?year=2005&month=7 Richards blog]</ref>

The week-long format was devised to make the challenge more accessible. Similarly the ability to form a team or run as an individual also increases participation. The challenge is also open to using appropriately-licensed art content not developed during the challenge.<ref>[http://media.pyweek.org/static/rules.html#existing-artwork-music-and-sound-effects-may-be-used pyweek rules page/existing content]</ref>

The limitation to using Python was made to advocate Python and to increase the amount of tools and knowledge for Python game programmers.{{Reference required}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://pyweek.org PyWeek homepage]
[[Category: Contests]]

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