Mechwarrior Python Game

Dave Cole djc at object-craft.com.au
Tue Aug 10 19:54:30 EDT 2004


Pete Shinners wrote:
> Jared wrote:
> 
>> Has anybody played the Mechwarrior Miniatures game?  I'm trying to
>> represent the game in python.  First thing I need to do is make a
>> playing field.  Mechs will move on the playing field based on inches
>> to scale in any direction.  Any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> You'll probably want to get comfortable working with a game on a hex 
> grid. You can usually treat it as a skewed 2D grid. There are plenty of 
> articles on developing hex games.
> 
> There are a few examples on the Pygame site, but most are either 
> incomplete or very deep. I haven't seen any clean examples out there 
> that show you how it's all done with Python code. But I know there's a 
> few people working on that sort of thing.

I stumbled across this years ago...

	http://unicornsrest.org/reference/catan/maps/source.html

- Dave

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