WHAT

Pick the Pickle is a game about catching pickles and not getting stabbed in the jar by knives. It requires pyglet, which doesn't work on newer versions of OS X, but oh well!!!

HOW

Get pyglet, then download the game by doing something like this:

git clone https://github.com/grampajoe/pickle.git

And run it like this:

cd pickle
./pickle.py

The objective is to fill the jars with pickles before they're broken by the falling knives. Why are there falling knives? I don't know, why are there falling pickles?

WHY

Pick the Pickle is an exercise in a few things:

• Making a game. I'd never really done that before, and I certainly hadn't done any graphics programming. I got started with this Python OpenGL tutorial.
• Releasing something. I wanted to make something to put out into the world.
• Not being "done" with something. Too many of my projects are gathering dust because I don't want people to see them before they've reached the impossible "done" state.

OKAY

Yep.