Re: 2D Game Development in Python

2007-12-21 Thread Istvan Albert
On Dec 20, 8:16 pm, PatrickMinnesota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > seen all the lists. I've done my reading. What I don't have is > actual testimonials by people who have used a chunk of code to program > an animated 2D game and had a great experience. You could use Panda3D to create the game, w

Re: 2D Game Development in Python

2007-12-21 Thread Terry Reedy
"Steven Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pyglet does NOT, to my knowledge, "wrap ogre". Pyglet is a lean-and-mean | standalone library, and gets a big, big thumbs up from me. Check it out. | http://pyglet.org/ | 2D sprites can be accomplished pretty easily with

Re: 2D Game Development in Python

2007-12-21 Thread Paul Boddie
On 21 Des, 02:16, PatrickMinnesota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been playing with Pygame some in my late night hobby time. I'm > wondering what else I should be looking at since I'm not all that > impressed with Pygame so far. Maybe it is the right library, but > maybe it's not. Please do

Re: 2D Game Development in Python

2007-12-20 Thread Steven Clark
On Dec 20, 2007 10:30 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "PatrickMinnesota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | I think I need at least this: 2D graphics, sound, input (kbd, mouse, > | joystick maybe), some IPC might be nice (Stuff like: Sockets, TCP, > |

Re: 2D Game Development in Python

2007-12-20 Thread Terry Reedy
"PatrickMinnesota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | I think I need at least this: 2D graphics, sound, input (kbd, mouse, | joystick maybe), some IPC might be nice (Stuff like: Sockets, TCP, | UDP, pipes, msg queues, shared memory). The IPC stuff would only be | used

2D Game Development in Python

2007-12-20 Thread PatrickMinnesota
I like to do fun stuff when learning a new language. I've been working with Python for a little while on real world problems mostly fixing bugs and writing a simulator for work. I was thinking as a hobby project developing a simple 2d game (think Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, LoadRunner) and menti