A PyWeek 39 game about canoeing on a tropical river.
You have 5 minutes to get photos of 3 river animals. Some Aussie guy is very insistent about this.
Where is the river? Are all these creatures authentic river fauna? Is this a canoe or a kayak?
The easiest way to run the game is to install uv and uv run riverborn.
You can also build a venv from requirements.txt and run run_game.py.
At the title screen, press Space to play.
Left Arrow - paddle on the left side Right Arrow - paddle on the right side
That's it! Go spot some fauna! Quick, because your mate said so.
There are some editor controls you can play with. They are all invoked using the mouse.
Press Tab to cycle tools (the CLI says which tool is selected). Click/drag to
use the tool. Mousewheel to cycle animals.
The terrain and animals are persisted when you quit the game so don't mess up your copy of the game data and blame me.
Programming: Daniel Pope Voiceovers: Daniel Pope in a dodgy accent
Thanks to ChatGPT & Copilot, particularly o3-mini & Claude 3.7 Sonnet. You're ridiculous at writing shaders and matrix maths, I could not have done this without you. Actually I could but not in a week.
https://opengameart.org/content/crocodile https://opengameart.org/content/tiny-boat https://poly.pizza/m/5hUIvLVFqet https://poly.pizza/m/4HNi8dZMdZa
Splash Sounds - https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/416710/ https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/398705/
Ambient Lake sound - https://freesound.org/people/radam04/sounds/412942/