Pygame 2.0
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Pygame 2.0
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Re: Pygame 2.0
#2Great news! There were 5+ years during which I warned people away from Pygame. First there was no official release with Python 3 support in sight. Once that happened, I was disappointed that it still used the old SDL, which was utterly obsolete by then.
The last area I'd like to see improved is the documentation. But the list of stuff that did get done over the last couple of years looks fantastic. Thanks to all the contributors; I'm looking forward to kicking 2.0's .whls.
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#3Nice! The first real game I ever made was with pygame :) https://github.com/samertm/snake-python
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#4Any good commercial games released?
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#5Fantastic! Feels like it's been a dead project for so long, it's good to see it's properly back and fully modernized.
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#6Any good commercial games released?
I have no idea, but to me the opposite of good commercial games is the point here. What is not to love about a title such as mediocre tetris: https://www.pygame.org/project/5421/7844
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#7Pygame is great, I've used it for a one day gamejam and despite not being familiar with it, i was up and running quickly.
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#8As coincidences go, just the day before yesterday I looked into pygame and came across this Quora question: https://www.quora.com/Is-Pygame-fast-enough-for-modern-game-...
The sentiment seems to be that it's not suitable for more than small toy games -- which in itself would still be interesting. I mean, it's clear that professional AAA studios are not the core target group.
But has anyone here on HN additional hands-on experience that would support or reject the above assessment?
Re: Pygame 2.0
#9As coincidences go, just the day before yesterday I looked into pygame and came across this Quora question: https://www.quora.com/Is-Pygame-fast-enough-for-modern-game-... The sentiment seems to be that it's not suitable for more than small toy games -- which in itself would still be interesting. I mean, it's clear that professional AAA studios are not the core target group. But has anyone here on HN additional hands…
I've done a fair amount with Pygame. It's great for learning the fundamentals of 2D graphics and little toy games, it works well for writing simple programs to do things with image data, and I imagine you could use it to pretty easily get an OpenGL window to draw into.
I would not recommend using Pygame to develop a serious game project. All of Pygame's provided functions use software rendering, so you won't be able to take advantage of the graphics card. More seriously, Pygame includes essentially none of the features that come out of the box in a modern game engine, so you have to do things like write the event loop yourself and find your own solutions to physics and animation and figuring out which UI element is currently under the mouse cursor. Great for learning how that stuff works, not great for getting a high-quality game shippable.
Re: Pygame 2.0
#10As coincidences go, just the day before yesterday I looked into pygame and came across this Quora question: https://www.quora.com/Is-Pygame-fast-enough-for-modern-game-... The sentiment seems to be that it's not suitable for more than small toy games -- which in itself would still be interesting. I mean, it's clear that professional AAA studios are not the core target group. But has anyone here on HN additional hands…
Yup! I've worked a bit with pyGame to build a robot interfaced with a PS3 joystick. By far the easiest library I've used for interfacing Python scripts with a joystick.