After a month-long hiatus in development, work on 0.8.0 is finally well underway. Full screen support was added recently, and I've been working on the game code to make it more reusable, clean and efficient. This will make way for further development, and the generic parts of the code used in Which Way Is Up? and other Puskutraktori projects will also be released into the public domain as a separate template package called Skellington Plus. Based on the Skellington from last PyWeek, it will offer a simple and modular starting point for any Pygame-based Python game project. I've also received a patch with 7 pink levels from Nils Fagerburg - at least some of the functionality there will appear in 0.8.0, though I'm not sure about everything yet.
In other news, the older 0.7.0 version of the game has also made its way to official Debian repositories. This has sparked renewed interest in the game, in turn increasing my motivation to work on it. The package is being maintained by Miriam Ruiz. As an interesting side note, I've heard that the game has gained attention from being the first Debian package with content licensed under CC 3.0 Attribution license. Debian is famous for its strong advocacy of open source software, and apparently there has been some slight controversy about CC licenses being Debian compatible. Hopefully the inclusion of Which Way Is Up? will pave the way for other great CC-licensed work in Debian in the future.
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