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Re: Re: [pygame] PyGameDB coming along well



The project is not tied to pygame, it can do opengl, pyglet etc.
I have not tested it with any other library but it should work in theory.

I just want a big database of python games with the files in one place.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Brad Montgomery
<brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I wonder whether this proposed site could actually be the generic Python Gaming website I've been looking for for so long?
>
>
> By generic, do you mean any game written in python?  Or any game
> written using Pygame?  It sounds like the PygameDB project is aming to
> produce a client-side gui app that will let users
> fetch+install+lauch+play games written in Pygame (while handling any
> dependencies).  This is an AWESOME project, and I'd say it's a great
> complement to the pygame.org website.
>
> If on the other hand, by generic, you mean any and all games written
> in python... it would be neat (ambitious, but neat) if the pygameDB
> project tried to support various games written using other libraries
> (such as pyglet, pyopengl, pivy, panda3d, etc)
>
>> Or people could continue using the existing python gaming website and
>> database - pygame.org
>
> The pygame.org site is "just" for games written in pygame, right?
> It's a great resource, but I can think of a few features that might
> make nice additions.  Some sort of ranking (most downloaded, community
> favorites, most viewed?  I know there's the comments, and the "worst"
> to "best" ranking, but I don't see where these are every used to help
> suggest other games....
>
> Anyways, these are also features I'd want to see in a gui game installer.
>
> brad
>



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Thanks, Richie Ward