Re: [pygame] Game/Multimedia Projects

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 1, 2005, at 12:10 AM, C.Lee Taylor wrote:

> Richard Jones wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:56 pm, Lionel barret De Nazaris wrote:
> >
> > > A breakout or a space invader game would be more reasonable.
> > > To complete a game *is *hard.
> > Bah, that's why I run game programming challenges - to dispell  
> > this kind of myth.
>     No flame bait, but see allot of games start, I see allot of  
> games with promise, but many never finish for many reasons, include  
> RealLife(TM) issues.
>
>     Game programming Challenges are great, but never have the  
> polish or finish of commercial games.
>
>     Games like Frozen Bubble http://www.frozen-bubble.org/ with  
> backing have all the polish and finish, unlike the many games  
> started on pygame.org ...
>
>     I'm not knocking any of the game developers out, because I'm  
> believe I understand how things happen, I'm just saying that allot  
> could be said for people who can complete a package with polish and  
> finish.

Frozen Bubble is dead, though.  It hasn't been updated in years.  The  
Perl code is terrible, and it's really hard to change anything.  I  
ported it to Mac OS X, I'm pretty familiar with how it's put together.

It does have very good assets, and those were polished more or less  
from the start.

-bob