Re: [pygame] GMArcade Contest, PyGame Users Invited

[Ian Mallett <geometrian@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is ridiculous.

Python is perfect for engineering games, and PyGame is an excellent tool to help.  PyGame is supposed to be a tool of game developers.  The OP is "look[ing] forward to maybe seeing some PyGame games entered"--why not actually use what PyGame was designed for?  If we say that programming competitions are "off-topic", then how is PyGame ever going to be recognized?  Really, the title "Arcade Contest, PyGame Users Invited" shows that Matt is inviting pygame_users to compete and make PyGames.  

And by the way, no one responds to off-topic posts.  The problem solves itself.  Note that, as pymike pointed out, there are very few GMArcade threads here.  GMArcade is not spamming our board.  But this is not even spam.  

Think about it.  If you, for some reason, can't realize that a competition inviting PyGame users to write PyGame games is on-topic, the least you could do is keep it to yourself.  This is not spam; this is not irrelevant--this is a game competition inviting our group specifically, and if inviting pygame_users to use PyGame in competition isn't on-topic, I don't know what is.  

Ian