Re: [pygame] pygame performance limits

[Nick Arnoeyts <nickarnoeyts@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm actually not quite sure what I'm going to write yet. Either an RPG in the style of SNES-era Final Fantasy, or a visual novel (if you know Higurashi or Clannad). I'm not (yet) interested in 3D and I would certainly do something like that in C++.

Pygame is probably fast enough for the graphics, but I was wondering how performance would be for AI and other calculations.

yours truly

armornick

2011/11/23 Chris Smith <maximinus@xxxxxxxxx>

You can't really compare the language C++ with the library Python.

You could compare C++ / SDL with Python / Pygame, and probably C++ would be faster (but maybe by not as much as you think)... but it would certainly take a lot more time to write the code.

As to what you can do with Pygame, well it is a 2D library that I find fast enough for most things. In some ways I think Pygame is a little 'old-school': Pygame does not do a lot for you, but it gets out of the way, and perhaps most importantly, it's small enough to fit in my mind but big enough to do what I want.

Unless you develop as part of a team you need 3D, you are unlikely to choose a project that Pygame cannot handle in some way.

Perhaps you could tell us more about what you wanted to write... that would make it easier to tell you if Pygame could do this for you.

Chris

On 23 November 2011 21:07, Nick Arnoeyts <nickarnoeyts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey everyone

I was wondering what the limits of pygame performance are. What is the absolute maximum kind of game that can be written with it, and what kinds of things are better done in pure C++ than python?

This is probably a question that's asked periodically on the mailing list, so I apologize in advance.

Yours truly

Armor Nick