Re: [pygame] GSoC project proposal: Pygame on rails

[Nikhil Murthy <murthynik1@xxxxxxxxx>]

You should really take a look at Thadues Burgess's pyBTS, where a lot of the things you have mentioned have been done, at least partly. For instance, look at his entity module and the weapon classes in there to get ideas for the weapons you used as your first example.

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Thadeus Burgess <thadeusb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have actually attempted to perform this same thing. My project went
on a standstill as other things were pressing, however I am interested
in reopening my project back up.

I am calling it PyBTS (pygame behind the scenes). It includes a world
manager, terrain, physics based on the "genre". You can take the same
codebase, and change the type of Terrain class, and you get a tilemap
or sidescroller respectively.

I would definitely love to revive the project, my goals for it are
fairly similar, to provide all of the game engine boiler plate code
that goes into making a game.

http://hg.thadeusb.com/Games/PyBTS/
http://hg.thadeusb.com/Games/MyRTS/ # Uses pybts

-Thadeus

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Evan Kroske <e.kroske@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd like to work on a Pygame-related project for GSoC, so I've been
> thinking about possible projects I'd like to do. My favorite idea is
> developing a micro-framework on top of Pygame to cut the volume of
> code required to create a game within a well-defined genre. It would
> revolve around assigning actions to high-level events. For example,
> instead of creating a block like this within the main game loop:
>
> if not player.reloading and sdlconst.K_SPACE in keystate and
> len(shots) < constants.MAX_SHOTS:
>    shots.append(factory.createProjectile(player))
>
> the game developer would write something like this:
>
> player.setProjectile(Bullet())
> player.setFireTrigger(sdlconst.K_SPACE)
>
> Here are a few more possible examples:
>
> # Set tile map for stage
> level.setTileMap(tileMap)
>
> # Set BG music for stage
> level.setBGMusic("battletheme.ogg")
>
> # Assign goal for stage
> level.setGoal(flagpole)
>
> The framework would have specialized modules for each genre; the
> platformer module would have a simple physics engine and a tiled
> background engine, but the space shooter module would have a way to
> easily control the behavior of shots and enemy ships.The framework
> would dramatically simplify the process of putting graphics on screen
> and playing sounds, allowing developers to focus on other aspects of
> game design, such as automated level generation, AI, and media-based
> mashup games.
>
> I'm really excited about the possibility, but I want to know what you
> think about it. Do game developers need an easier way to create games?
> Has another project already done this?
>
> --
> Evan Kroske
> http://welcome2obscurity.blogspot.com/
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> novice software developer.
>