Re: [pygame] Game Maker but with Python?

[Devon Scott-Tunkin <djvonfunkin@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd use Game Maker if it was multiplatform and didn't have slowdown issues so much for me. I love Python, but scripting languages all do pretty much the same thing, and if you know one you can learn them all.

I think expanding on PGU to create a graphical level editor / tile engine that allowed visual placement of sprites, backgrounds, resources, and triggers would be amazing. Just the step of seeing where your putting things and handling game resources visually is so much easier to work with for those of us that grew up with Windows and its nice to see exactly what your game would look like immediately. Even if it isn't playable immediately and you still have to code all the logic.

Python is a great beginner's language though. It convinced me that programming wasn't that difficult and made stepping into the backwards world of C++ much easier.

Devon

--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Nathan Whitehead <nwhitehe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Nathan Whitehead <nwhitehe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [pygame] Game Maker but with Python?
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 4:12 PM
> I just saw "100 Game Maker Games", a cool 10
> minute video that shows
> the wide variety of cool games you can make with Game
> Maker.
> 
> http://playthisthing.com/100-game-maker-games
> 
> There should be something like this but with Python and
> pygame!
> 
> My friends at UCSC have taught intro programming using Game
> Maker, and
> it went well but they were ultimately unhappy with GML (the
> Game Maker
> scripting language) as a first programming language.  When
> I taught
> game programming I went straight for pygame and Python (of
> course).
> It worked out pretty well, but the students had to spend
> quite a bit
> of time figuring out programming concepts before they could
> even get a
> square moving around on the screen.
> 
> Would you use a graphical tool like Game Maker to make your
> games if
> it used pygame and was extensible using Python?  Why or why
> not?  What
> would such a tool have to do to be useful?
> --
> Nathan