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Eskimo Tutorial - a tutorial for pygmae/python.
#http://sourceforge.net/projects/Eskimo-Tut/

Written by RoeBros([email protected])



Required Modules

- Python version 2.2 or later -- http://www.python.org/download/

- Pygame version 1.7.1 or later -- http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml



Installation Instructions

Once Python and Pygame are installed, unzip the folder anywhere in the python folder you want it. 
Click Eskimo.py to run the game. 
If you want to look at the code right-click on Eskimo.py and select 'Edit with IDLE'.



Game Instructions

When the game starts you will be asked which difficulty setting to play, type the letter for the difficulty of choice.
You move you player with the arrow keys. The green bar is your hitpoints, the blue bar is how many hitpoints you've lost. 
The red bar is the timer, if it reaches the bottom of the screen the finish line appears. 
The purple bar is your energy, every time you try to go faster or slow down you use energy, it will slowly return.
Drive the eskimo into the finish line to win. If you run out of hitpoints you lose.
If the Polar Bear catches you he will drain life every 3/4 of a second or 45 frames.
You cannot kill the bear only outrun it.
If the bear hits a tree it must find a way around it before it can chase you, if it gets too low it will crash through the 
tree and chase you at a faster pace for a brief bit of time.



Tutorial

This game was written as a tutorial so the first time(at least) something is done it will be commented on.
Comments either follow a  #  symbol or will be inside triple quotations like this  """message"""  .
This tutorial will attempt to show you a few ways of doing most things, usually ranging from simple to complex.