The year is 2391.

Earth is a utopia.

Mankind's technological achievements have brought about the rise of the most exciting sport ever created: tiny miniature spaceships travel back in time, in order to race through the intestinal tracts of unsuspecting inhabitants of the previous centuries.

The most accomplished and daring racers are selected to participate in the World Championships, a series of races which take place inside the most important colons in history, those belonging to the most powerful men in the world: The Presidents of the United States of America!

Intestinvaders is a racing game with procedurally-generated tracks, a variety of computer-controlled opponents and an illuminating library of trivia about the men who have been President of the USA. It features an online best times system which will not only allow you to compare times with other users around the world but also to download replays of their performances to watch or compete against. It was written for the PyWeek #10 contest in March and April of 2010.

Contact Us

If you know of any bugs or have ideas or comments regarding this project, please contact us at intestinvaders@supereffective.org.

Downloads

The current version is 1.0.4. A binary package is available for Mac OS X; the source distribution runs happily on Windows XP and at least some distributions of Linux, although you may need to install the required Python libraries.

License

This project is released under the terms of a BSD license. This means you can do pretty much whatever you like with it as long as:

  1. You leave the copyright notice and license text, unaltered in all redistributed copies.
  2. You don't claim that we endorse any derived product.

The full, legal text of the license follows:

* Copyright (c) 2010, Abigail Baker, Adam Biltcliffe, Martin O'Leary,
*                     Richard Thomas, JJ Wilks.
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