Re: [pygame] Game engine?

[Thadeus Burgess <thadeusb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have done a tilemap, however I think it might be quite a bit more
involved than what you are looking for.

http://hg.thadeusb.com/Games/PyBTS/file/f7473ac7857e/src/pybts/terrain

See tileengine.py and tilemap.py

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Thadeus





On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Mark Reed <markreed99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A tile engine where all sprites fit into a tile should be fairly
> simple. Just has to return whether or not movement into tile X from
> tile Y is allowed and draw all the background tile images.. Having
> that base would make each game get done much faster. Being not pygame
> specific I could draw the game in a wxPython panel or in pygame, and I
> can copy the logic over to another language if necessary to port the
> games to other platforms.
>
> Took a look at Squirrel game and I see pulling the tile logic out to
> its own class is feasible. Someone must have already done this?
>
> Mark
>
>> The problem with "little game engines" is that inorder for them to be
>> sufficiently general they end up being not little and not very easy to
>> use.
>> just write your own engine, you know what you need.
>> I'm not sure what you mean about "copy to another language". ÂThat
>> seems unlikely.
>> Why don't you just write your own lib using the wxPython Canvas widget thing?
>>
>