2D Game Development in Python

[Steven Clark]

On Dec 20, 2007 10:30 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

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> "PatrickMinnesota" <PatrickMinnesota at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4b11b773-0d75-43ac-9daf-84e515032d60 at a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> | I think I need at least this:  2D graphics, sound, input (kbd, mouse,
> | joystick maybe), some IPC might be nice (Stuff like: Sockets, TCP,
> | UDP, pipes, msg queues, shared memory).  The IPC stuff would only be
> | used if I decide to allow some multi-player over a network.
> |
> | I've been playing with Pygame some in my late night hobby time.  I'm
> | wondering what else I should be looking at since I'm not all that
> | impressed with Pygame so far.  Maybe it is the right library, but
> | maybe it's not.  Please don't point me to a list of choices.  I've
> | seen all the lists.  I've done my reading.  What I don't have is
> | actual testimonials by people who have used a chunk of code to program
> | an animated 2D game and had a great experience.
>
> Someone recently posted on the pygame list that he had tried the rather
> new
> pyglet (which wraps ogre) and was switching many games to that.  It is new
> enough that it might not be on 'all the lists' yet.  But no, I have not
> tried it yet.
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Pyglet does NOT, to my knowledge, "wrap ogre". Pyglet is a lean-and-mean
standalone library, and gets a big, big thumbs up from me. Check it out.
http://pyglet.org/
2D sprites can be accomplished pretty easily within its openGL framework.
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