RE: [pygame] people hating python for game dev.

[Chris Ashurst <CAshurst@xxxxxxxx>]

Not to mention the currently rated #1 MMORPG - EVE Online.

True, they don't use pygame, but they do use Python (more specifically,
Stackless Python) to handle the countless thousands of concurrent users
every single second of every single day (not to mention a microthread to
control *every* *single* ship-based NPC in the game).

Of course, it's my ultimate goal to use Pygame in conjunction with Twisted
and Stackless to produce an MMORPG of my own, but my lack of graphical
talent, plus the fact I work for a living puts a huge restraint on that ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of James Paige
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 13:42
To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [pygame] people hating python for game dev.


On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:25:58AM -0700, Haroon Khalid wrote:
> I am new to game dev, and it seems lots of people are being an asshole
when it comes to some
> gaming help. When I mention that python is ok for game dev, they start
some shit about "there is
> like 1 commercial game in python" and all this other garbage. So does
anyone know why these people
> are giving me shit about it. It seems that they hate it since its not
popular compared to C.

Sid Meier's Civilization IV uses python (not pygame). I don't believe it 
is written entirely in python, it just uses it for certain things. I 
think there are other commerical games too that use a mixture of C and 
python, but that is the only one I can think of.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/GameProgramming has some interesting 
discussions of pros and cons of game programming in python.

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James Paige




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