Re: [pygame] Can the pygame infrastructure be used for non-graphical text-mode games?

["Nicholas H.Tollervey" <ntoll@xxxxxxxxx>]

The wonderful Dan Pope (lordmauve), who also runs PyWeek, wrote this
funky project that sounds exactly like what you're looking for:

https://github.com/lordmauve/adventurelib

Documentation here:

https://adventurelib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Dan is a developer I have a huge amount of respect for (he's also a
buddy too), and I believe the quality of his code will be good, the
documentation comprehensive and he'd be open to feedback, bug reports
and suggestions.

For what it's worth, I'm currently writing a simple MUD engine in Python
(a multi-user text based adventure game), which I'll be presenting at
EuroPython in just over a month
(https://ep2020.europython.eu/talks/AGaSaW8-how-to-run-a-corridor-track-in-a-remote-conference-with-python/)

Best of luck.

On 18/06/2020 01:40, pjfarley3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> A lot of the old "adventure" games and similar game efforts from the very
> early days of computing were strictly text-mode games with no graphics used
> (or needed) at all.
> 
> The old code base for such games wasn't always very well organized or
> designed, they just (mostly) worked.  I had a thought that updating such a
> game's design and structure with more modern design principles and
> supporting architecture would be an interesting exercise.
> 
> Is it possible to use the pygame infrastructure to implement text-mode-only
> games?  Without having to pick window sizes and resolutions and set fonts
> and font sizes, etc., etc., on a graphical surface?
> 
> IOW, can the pygame keyboard input and screen output processes be replaced
> with simple python raw_input() and print() calls?
> 
> Or am I just looking at the wrong library to use for such games?
> 
> TIA for your advice and opinion.
> 
> Peter
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> 
>

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