http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24581 <pre>I found strange links on the bottom of the cookbook. It just says http://www.el7z.com/search.php?t=%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A8%20%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3 </pre> Jake b 2013-05-14T21:04:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24568 <pre>Hi all, I've been wondering how to best distribute a game made with Pygame on Linux. On Windows, cx_Freeze works very well, and I assume it would be just the same on Mac OS. But on Linux, it's perfectly useless because of the various distros I'd have to build the game for. I could ship a tarball with the sources, but still, it's quite difficult for the users to deal with so many dependencies (Pygame, and hence the SDL, Numpy sometimes…). In my case, I can't even relie on the repos and tell the players to install a few packages with Aptitude: I use Python 3 and a pre-release of Pygame 1.9.2 (so as to use Surfarray, not available for Python 3 with Pygame 1.9.1), and these versions aren't even in the repos. So, what's the best way to distribute a game for Linux? I've thought of a few possibilites I could try: - Making some generic DEB and RPM packages, and hope they can cover most distributions. I don't know whether a RPM built on Ubuntu will work on Fedora though… - Using Setuptools/Distribute and Python eggs. From what I've read, it is quite powerful. Provided the Setuptools script point to the Pygame Mercurial repo and to any other required dependency, it will build them from the sources on its own. The only limit is the SDL. It doesn't seem that Setuptools can install a C library, so the user will have to install it by himself. But that seems more reasonable already, the SDL 1.2 being widely available on most distros. Or I could add the SDL to the sources and tweak the setup script so that it builds it if needed. In this way, I would have a completely standalone game, with the same sources regardless of the distribution. Has anyone tried his hand at it? I'd love to hear some feedback. Thanks in advance for your help! Kevin </pre> Kevin Locoh 2013-05-12T18:24:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24564 <pre>Hello list, I'm in the process of developing a dungeon adventure game for Android, using Pygame and PGS4A. Target platform at this point is my Samsung Galaxy phone. I've just posted a gameplay video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpDUmIrG4Q. You control a party of six characters - in this case, two warriors, a rogue, two wizards (one powerful and the other subtle) and a healer. As you progress through the dungeon, you are attacked by a variety of horrible monsters. You need to counter their special attacks, launch your own special attacks and keep an eye on your characters' health and energy levels. There are over 60 types of monster. And there are about 100 character abilities (so far), so you can customise your party to work together in a lot of different ways. The beautiful tile art is the work of an artist called Shockbolt. He has licenced his tileset for use in this project (on a strictly non profit basis). I am sorry it looks so blurry over the Youtube: it looks pretty good on the phone. Most grateful for any feedback, Antoine (bbull1-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org) </pre> Brian Bull 2013-05-07T22:38:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24561 <pre>PySDL2 0.2.0 has been released. PySDL2 is a wrapper around the SDL2 library and as such similar to the discontinued PySDL project. In contrast to PySDL, it has no licensing restrictions, nor does it rely on C code, but uses ctypes instead. Version 0.2.0 is a bugfix release, which fixes several issues with different methods, functions and modules. You can download it from http://bitbucket.org/marcusva/py-sdl2/downloads. The documentation, listing all of its features, can be browsed online at http://pysdl2.readthedocs.org/. Cheers Marcus </pre> Marcus von Appen 2013-05-03T06:05:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24557 <pre>Hi all, I just wanted to show you a few games using Pygame which were made for the Ludum Dare 26, this week-end. The theme of the game jam was "minimalism". Link: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?sortby=default&amp;q=pygame Enjoy! Kevin. </pre> Kévin Locoh 2013-05-01T10:35:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24547 <pre>Afternoon, Please forgive my newbie question. I am trying to re-create a arcade cabinet design in pygame. So that the cab displays around the play area. How can I do this? What I want is say the game to display in 600x400 and the cab to take up the rest of the screen. Thanks, Dan. </pre> Frank Butcher 2013-04-30T08:46:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24543 <pre>Dear all, as written in another thread earlier, I planned to flesh out and move pgreloaded's pygame2 package into a more simple layout. This has been done. The result is PySDL2 [0], a thin ctypes wrapper around the SDL2 library, which also features some enhanced functionality from pgreloaded. The audio part of pgreloaded was moved into py-al [1], a thin wrapper around the OpenAL audio standard, featuring some enhanced functionality from pgreloaded. Everything else was moved into a set of utilities [2], since it is generic enough to be used for different purposes, but does not require you to download the whole pgreloaded package. Work on pgreloaded has been stopped - it grew too fast in too many directions, which lead to a maintenance hell for a single person. The two (or three) projects can live on their own and releases are decoupled from each other, so that I expect the maintenance to be bearable. All code is under the Public Domain, enjoy! [0] https://bitbucket.org/marcusva/py-sdl2/ http://pysdl2.readthedocs.org/ [1] https://bitbucket.org/marcusva/py-al http://pyal.readthedocs.org/ [2] https://bitbucket.org/marcusva/python-utils http://python-utilities.readthedocs.org/ Cheers Marcus </pre> Marcus von Appen 2013-04-29T17:14:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24542 <pre>Hi, I finished my introductory book on Pygame and Python: http://programarcadegames.com/chapters/book.php Paul Vincent Craven </pre> Paul Vincent Craven 2013-04-29T12:44:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24540 <pre>at http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml it can appear that the newest package is from 2009 ( I've seen several posts on SO where under the assumption that pygame doesn't have a py3.x installer ) But lower there are links to py3.x 32/64 binaries. And there are also: https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/downloads I'm not sure myself which installer is preferred to recommend. </pre> Jake b 2013-04-26T22:34:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24539 <pre>ALBOW - A Little Bit of Widgetry for PyGame Version 2.2 is now available. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Albow/ Highlights of this version: * Multichoice control * Powerful new facilities for hot-linking controls to application data There are also many other improvements and bug fixes. See the Change Log for details. What is Albow? Albow is a library for creating GUIs using PyGame that I have been developing over the course of several PyWeek competitions. I am documenting and releasing it as a separate package so that others may benefit from it, and so that it will be permissible for use in future PyGame entries. The download includes HTML documentation and some example programs demonstrating most of the library's features. You can also see some screenshots and browse the documentation on-line. -- Gregory Ewing greg.ewing-F+z8Qja7x9Xokq/tPzqvJg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org </pre> Greg Ewing 2013-04-21T08:41:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24527 <pre>Hello, I was just wondering what the state of PyGame was these days? I see there hasn't been a new version since 2009. I'm hoping its just because its so stable, but I wanted to be sure. Is there another wrapper around SDL that people prefer now? Is Python 3 fully supported yet? Any information would be hugely appreciated! Cheers </pre> Andrew Barlow 2013-04-15T16:25:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24522 <pre>Hello, I am using Pygame (1.9.1release) under Ubuntu (12.04). I have noticed that when sometimes when I quit my program (with pygame.quit()) the Ibus (which is related to input handling) component crashes. My program is essentially a psychological experiment: it displays some stimuli and wait for user input. If the user presses the 'ESC' key, the program raises an exception. The pygame.quit() function is called in the finally block. I wanted to know if this is known issue or if I am doing something wrong. I can try to work on a MWE if needed. Thanks in advance, Mathieu </pre> Mathieu Dubois 2013-04-12T15:04:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24519 <pre>I was looking forward to submit a project for pygame for GSOC13, but from what I could find out pygame doesnt seem to be participating in GSOC this year. Looks like it is possible to apply under the PSF umbrella as a mentoring organization. Only a contact person from the pygame project needs to apply for it. Can anyone tell me who can be considered as a contact person of pygame and will be willing to approach PSF for this? Also, I will be happy to know about anyone who is willing to be a mentor. </pre> Abhas Bhattacharya 2013-04-09T05:15:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24515 <pre>Hello!  For the longest time, I've encountered a frequent hard hang (i.e. SIGTERM won't end the process, only SIGKILL) in pykaraoke.  Tonight I traced it to pygame.mixer.music.play(). I managed to write a short Python script, and create a short MP3 (i.e. 50k) that can reproduce it.  They're attached to this e-mail. I also figured out that it only happens on multiprocessor systems; if I boot my computer with "maxcpus=1", or run it on a single-core machine, it doesn't happen. On rare occasions, it'll succeed on a multiprocessor system, and the process will exit normally, but most of the time it'll hang hard. I'm running this on Fedora Core 17, but I've encountered this regularly with previous versions of Fedora Core, too. Currently, I'm running with the latest version of python and pygame available from the FC17 yum repos, i.e. python-2.7.3-7.2.fc17.i686 and pygame-1.9.1-11.fc17.i686 . It happens with SDL_mixer built with smpeg as well as with libmad.  I'm using SDL_mixer-1.2.12-3.fc17 (also from the FC17 yum repo), built from source with "--enable-music-mp3-mad-gpl" added to the %configure line in the .spec file. But given how long I've encountered this problem, I doubt the exact software versions are that relevant. Please let me know if there's anything else I can provide to help track down this problem.  Hopefully the attached files are enough. Thanks in advance! Steven Boswell </pre> Steven Boswell II 2013-04-06T03:52:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24512 <pre>I'm curious - why are Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS and Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS commented out (and otherwise missing) in surface.c? It seems like those would be the most expensive functions, and hence the ones that would benefit most from running in a threaded environment. They're used in many other parts of pygame. </pre> Tom Rothamel 2013-04-04T05:33:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24495 <pre>What are the collision detection/handling systems implemented for pygame and available out there?</pre> Vinícius Naves Castanheira 2013-03-27T18:49:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24488 <pre>I was thinking it might be fun to have a set of graphics available as a part of the pygame website. A set of tiles, explosions, platforms, backgrounds ... maybe work in a python or pygame-snake type theme. I could check around with some artists I know ... if there is interested I could even finance the work and just donate it to the project. I think it would be a fun way to help promote the site and framework also, as people might come to the site for the free art also. Any thoughts? Cheers :) </pre> Sean Felipe Wolfe 2013-03-26T22:10:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24478 <pre>Hey guys, Just announcing a new release. The main update is the addition of two new widgets: A Scale slider widget. A Combo box widget. If you'd like to use the new release, you can download both the Python 2 and 3 versions from: https://launchpad.net/simplegc As usual, documentation can also be found at: http://program.sambull.org/sgc/ Any feedback or contributions welcome, Sam Bull </pre> Sam Bull 2013-03-24T22:17:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24477 <pre>Hey everybody how's it goin? I'd like to get involved in helping improve pygame. I have intermediate-level python skills, and also I've done work in ruby and java, especially around the Android platform. I have a number of game ideas which I'd like to explore with pygame, possibly branching into the p4android project as well. I have helped out a bit in the past although it was mostly with website transition stuff. I've crossed some bridges in my professional life (that's the java-ruby part) and I have some time opening up now. So, I'll check the website. A question, do we have any info online about the pygame core development team, or info about goals or aspirations for the project? What's currently on the task list for pygame? Also, is there anybody else on the list interested in the pg4android project? Thanks everybody, I'll check in later. </pre> Sean Felipe Wolfe 2013-03-24T17:09:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24474 <pre>Thanks to Jordan Farrell, there is now a Python 3 toolkit ready to test. If anybody is using Pygame on Python 3, feel free to give it a go. It can be downloaded from https://launchpad.net/simplegc/stable/0.2/+download/sgc-0.2-py3.tar.gz Hopefully that's useful to some people. Thanks, Sam Bull </pre> Sam Bull 2013-03-22T01:11:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pygame/24473 <pre>Hey, I have just released v0.6.0 of the planes module. planes is a hierarchical surface framework for PyGame, extending it with a hierarchy of mouse-sensitive, draggable Surfaces that can be used as sprites, windows, icons or other interactive elements. In addition, the planes.gui module provides basic GUI elements like container, label, text box, option list and button. http://florian-berger.de/en/software/planes Changes: planes now logs runtime statistics and displays them when F12 is pressed. There is a font manager class now, and planes comes bundled with a selection of free fonts for instant use. A font usage example is included. There is a new widget planes.gui.ProgressBar. All gfx and font resources are now bundled in a 'resources.zip' file which is distributed along with planes. planes now uses cx_Freeze to build executables. Added mouse wheel support for the Plane class and the PlusMinusBox widget specifically. Optimized Plane.render() a little to check whether subplanes actually intersect with Display.rect. Bug fixes and enhancements in Plane.render(), gui.Container.sub(), and 'planes_interactive.py'. Docs update. planes is quite powerful, but sadly lacks a tutorial to get started. This will be added in the beta (0.9.x) releases. planes powers the 2D client of the Fabula engine: http://fabula-engine.org/ Cheers, Florian </pre> Florian Berger 2013-03-05T14:18:54 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.python.pygame