Reclaiming DaftPython!
Right trying to reclaim the DaftPython name on blogger. Sorry for this test post cluttering up your feed. Future posts will probably be full of PyGame related posts. See you soon!
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Rediscovering Python and PyGame
After quite a long break, I find myself back into Python - specifically for PyGame projects. The day job is .Net centred and I've been dabbling in 6809 assembler, Android and HTML5 for personal...
View ArticleThe Future Of PyGame
pgreloaded - PyGame Reloaded - Multimedia Framework for Python - Google Project Hosting: "Pygame Reloaded (aka pygame2, pgreloaded) started as a rewrite of the Pygame multimedia and game framework. As...
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Python Tools For Visual Studio
Day to day I use Visual Studio for ASP.net and CSharp. It is okay-ish. I used to like Visual Studio then around version 6/7 it went rather multipurpose/multilanguage and lessened the experience....
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Particles Of Blue
Something I have not used in a PyGame game yet is particles of any sort. Thinking over a few ideas for a mining game, it seemed like a fun idea to have some sort of soil. This lead to a quick half-hour...
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Simple Starfield In PyGame
Games are very often highly interactive with even some text adventures operating in real time. I thought it would be fun to go in the opposite direction and create a game with minimal interaction. So I...
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Minecraft Screenshot Viewer in wxPython - A Preview
There's a lot of Minecraft going on in this house! The boys all love it and come up with some creative designs for houses, statues, machines and roller-coasters. Minecraft has a built in feature for...
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Screenshot Viewer For Minecraft - Now Released
The screenshot viewer is now available! Only tested on Windows for now so Linux/Mac users (who make a good proportion of visitors to this site) be warned. I have created a Google code project for all...
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Returning To The Stars
My previous post with a simple starfield has proved to be one of the most popular posts on this blog so far. I thought it was high time I gave the 'solution' to the challenge of a 'layered'...
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Make Cool Game Menus with SGC
SGC (Simple Game Code) is a new project that describes itself as 'A GUI toolkit for PyGame, to ease game development for Pygame developers'. The idea being that it takes care of menus, checkboxes,...
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PyWeek 15 PostMortem
Now that some time has passed, I thought it would be good to look back at PyWeek 15 to review how it went. First a screenshot!I quite liked the look of this game with the bright colours and use of...
View ArticleSimple Starfield in PyGlet
How about more stars?Whilst stuck in bed unwell, I stumbled upon a fun video tutorial on how to write an asteroid game in pyglet. Pyglet is available for Python 2 and 3 (in alpha form) and provides a...
View ArticleBouncy Text and Christmas Trees
First a quick video of the demo!Code is available here.The code runs much smoother than on YouTube :-) Hopefully each post in future will come with a video. The defaults are for the demo to run at 320...
View ArticleCapturing Code Snippets - Part One
Long time no blog!I've been spending more time with Dart so something had to get out of the way. However I have been revising my Python in time for the PyWeek game jam next month. I thought I would...
View Articlepyvideo.org - Introduction to game programming
Great way to get ready for the next PyWeek!pyvideo.org - Introduction to game programming
View ArticleNew PyGame Windows Installers
Re-awakening this blog with a bit of PyGame news worth sharing... It's no secret that PyGame is my favourite library for Python and it is great to see x86 (32-bit) Windows installers being made...
View ArticleReflections On IronPython : Still In Production
A recent reddit thread on IronPython brought back some memories so I thought I would record them in a quick blog post.I really liked Python when I discovered it 10+ years ago and was delighted when I...
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Monitoring Earthquakes Curses
Github Repository LinkThe USGS publishes a plethora of data on their website. Of interest to me are a bunch of frequently updated GeoJSON feeds which can be parsed with standard JSON libraries. I was...
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