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Re: [pygame] PyGameDB coming along well



I woud love to help you with the logo and website.

P.S. Are there any legal issues (trademarks etc.) to use the word
'pygame' in the title?

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Richie Ward <richies@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The PyGameDB project which has similarity's to the commercial platform
> "Steam" is coming to a usable state.
>
> It is programmed in Python + WxPython.
> It works by adding the game to sys.path and importing the game (very
> simplified way to put it).
> It uses a XML file to get a list of PyGame's. It will also work with
> other types of python games, including opengl based ones, as long as
> they are open source.
> A huge feature is that it will make it easy to deploy pygame's since
> you do not need to package them as a .exe.
> It allows anyone to make a game repository, the XML file url can be
> set inside the application!
>
> I am currently looking for help with:
> * The pygamedb-server which is a website programmed in cherrypy or
> pylons which will allow people to submit/upload games and generates
> the resulting xml file.
> * Beta testers for the client and someone that can test it on Mac OSX
> * Someone to make me a pygamedb logo, I am useless with graphics!
> * Someone with knowlege of WxPython thats willing to help with the client gui.
>
> The project is currently missing a big feature, dependency/library
> support (It ignores that in the xml file right now). That will be
> finished very soon.
>
> You can see a screenshot here: http://richies.googlepages.com/Screenshot-1.png
> The test repo is hosted here: http://pygamedb.4rensics.org/
> The test XML Data file  is here: http://pygamedb.4rensics.org/pygamedb.xml
>
> I plan to get a domain name once pygamedb-server is done.. pygamedb.org maybe?
>
> Getting it
> =======
> The project lives at: https://launchpad.net/pygamedb
>
> Windows
> http://launchpad.net/bzr/1.6/1.6beta3/+download/bzr-setup-1.6b3.exe
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPython2.8-win32-unicode-2.8.8.1-py25.exe
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018
> Install all of the above.
>
> Debian/Ubuntu
> python-wxgtk2.8, bzr
>
> Once you installed that, Run this command:
> bzr branch lp:pygamedb
>
> Running it
> =======
> Windows
> rename pygamedb to pygamedb.py and then run it.
>
> On all other os's just run pygamedb
>
> --
> Thanks, Richie Ward
>