Any Game Developers here?

Michael Lubker snowballz.game at gmail.com
Sun Jul 20 00:26:32 EDT 2008


Rabbyt is developed by one of my colleagues.

I'm currently using Python-Ogre and Anims (for 3D animation, broken
off from Rabbyt by Matthew) for my game, SnowballZ.

Thanks
Michael

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Python Nutter <pythonnutter at gmail.com> wrote:
> I used to use PyGame but the horrible delay waiting for OS X binaries
> put me off.
>
> I now use Pyglet extensively, and combine Pyglet + Rabbyt to get
> amazing sprite handling speeds.
>
> Pyglet/Rabbyt make use of OpenGL which comes installed on all the
> major systems out there.
>
> PyGame requires the installation of the SDL library to work so is a
> lot larger installation requirement.
>
> There are two books I know of currently in print on game programming,
> both use PyGame as it was out first. One book is horrible and only
> worth for cleaning yourself up after you use the bathroom. The second
> is really well written (The L express game programming book) and
> highly recommended if you need to get some basic game design and
> programming under your belt in Python.
>
> That said its stupidly easy to port examples to work on Pyglet/Rabbyt
> so you won't do yourself a dis-service if you want to buy the book but
> want to develop later in Pyglet/Rabbyt.
>
> Cheers,
> PN
>
> P.S. Since you've likely found Pyglet and PyGame already, the only
> other reference URL you need is for Rabbyt so go here for that:
> http://matthewmarshall.org/projects/rabbyt/
>
>
> 2008/7/19 Michael Lubker <snowballz.game at gmail.com>:
>> Any people that use Python as the predominant language for their game
>> development here?
>>
>> ~Michael
>> --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>



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