Re: [pygame] Citing PyGame in papers

[Alec Bennett <wrybread@xxxxxxxxx>]

Out of curiosity, what would be an example of an experiment you conduct that involves PyGame?






On Nov 8, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Ryan Hope <rmh3093@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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