Re: [pygame] Why do we do this?

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

Simon Wittber (Maptek) wrote:
> I would guess that most people on this list enjoy programming, playing
> games, and programming games.
>
> I am wondering, why? What motivates you, what started you on this path?
> And why have we picked pygame?
>
> These are not rhetorical questions, I am interested to see your
> responses so I can perhaps see what motivates me, and maybe find some
> extra inspiration!
interesting question. my answers may not be unique, but after a bit of 
pondering i can come up with this.

who can explain why people end up 'enjoying' different interests? gaming 
and programming have certainly been high on my list since they were even 
an option. i think programming games is a unique form of programming 
because you get to interact with your code so closely. often the results 
of simple code can surprise you in ways you didn't expect, once you get 
to "see" and "play" with it.

as for using python and sdl. i've been a c programmer for a long time. i 
stumbled across python and sdl at around the same time. both of these 
really struck me as something i'd want to learn and use.

learning python over the past couple years has been the biggest surprise 
to me. other languages i've used give me the mentality of "get the 
language to do what i want", whereas python is more directly "just do 
what you want". creating games and samples with python has really opened 
my eyes to what programming can be like. i often find myself thinking 
"it can't be done yet, that was too easy".

anyways, in the end the best part about pygame and python is they allow 
me to do one thing i've never been able to do, "finish" a game.


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