Re: [pygame] Citing PyGame in papers

[Ryan Hope <rmh3093@xxxxxxxxx>]

PyGame has increased my productivity as a research by an order of
magnitude. Experiment that used to take me weeks to code up in C/X11 I
can write in an hour or 2 using pygame and they are more portable.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Florian Krause
<siebenhundertzehn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I create my experiments in PyGame so I figured I would cite it just
>>> like the people who create their experiments in software like E-Prime.
>>>
>>
>> Cool. by the way, I think it's really great that PyGame is used in
>> experiments, and is getting cited somewhere!
>>
>
> Actually, we created a Python package that was specifically made for
> this purpose, which is also heavily based on PyGame
> (http://expyriment.googlecode.com). In fact, PyGame is very suited for
> these kind of things, since it handles most important aspects
> regarding stimulus presentation and user input. If you think about it,
> at a certain level, experiments and video games are have a lot in
> common. And PyGame is a superb package for game programming in Python.
> So for most people who want to write experiments in Python, the first
> stop will always be PyGame.
>
> Florian
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Ryan Hope, M.S.
CogWorks Lab
Department of Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute