Re: [pygame] Possible to create console games with pygame?

[Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>]

On Apr 27, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Michael wrote:

> > This has probably been asked a million times.  If so I apologize.  
> > Has anyone ever tried or been successful at porting a pygame game to 
> > a console like XBox or PS2?
> I think that the consensus on the issue is that it's possible but that 
> consoles aren't really suited to Python so that you'd probably be 
> looking at being restricted in what you could get working well. Write 
> for a PC and buy my Linux based set-top box to play them on. ;)
I know that people have ported Python to GC, which is the least 
powerful of the consoles, and deployed games with it.  However, I'm 
pretty sure they did not use SDL or pygame.  PS2 Linux can run SDL and 
Python, which in theory means it can run pygame, but I don't know if 
anyone has bothered to try.

Realistically, for a console, you probably wouldn't be using SDL (for 
many reasons).. which means you probably won't be using pygame.  That 
doesn't preclude you from using Python in a console game, though.

-bob