Python is a dynamically and strongly typed programming language that encourages readability.
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noSQL - Is it a valid option for web based game?
Out of an opportunity and boredom, a friend and I decided to make a web based game. This is the first 'game' I will be making, since usually I program web apps in django.
I've opted to use the same ...
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Famous games written in Python [closed]
I've seen a couple of these, namely Java and C#/XNA...and I've recently been picking up Python. Which kind of made me think.
What (famous) games have been written in Python, with ...
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How can I generate random lakes and rivers in my game?
I have a 2D block building game and am trying to make randomly generated lakes and rivers. I have looked into the Perlin noise algorithm, but, I couldn't get it to generate random and nice results.
I ...
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How to structure code for many unique weapons/spells/powers
I'm an inexperienced programmer creating a "roguelike-like" game in the vein of FTL, using Python (no PyGame as of yet as I'm still only concerned with text).
My game will contain a large number of ...
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What is a good algorithm for fractal-based procedural city layout?
Background
I run a minecraft server where I'm going to design a starter city of fairly large scale. I have a series of things, like rule signs and mob cages, I would like to put in buildings there. ...
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Python Performance vs Game Maker
I was originally thinking of creating a game with Python and SFML. I understand Python is slow compared to C++, but how is it compared to Game Maker?
The main reason I ask is I recently played a Game ...
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Should scripts interact with an abstraction of the engine?
I'm using Java and Jython, and after some research I discovered giving scripts direct access to the engine interface could be a mistake, as it would tightly couple the two.
It looks like most ...
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Would a Python game run on multiple platforms?
I have plans to write a game in Python and probably some SQL.
I'm concerned about how versatile my program will be when I finish it, ideally I'd like it to run on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone... ...
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What library for octrees or kd-trees?
Are there any robust performant libraries for indexing objects?
Objects would have bounds themselves, rather than being represented by points; and an object could therefore be in more than one ...
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Loading data for an RPG
I'm creating a small text RPG as a way to practice python and I'm running into a question about how to load data. The game is a wild west game, though that isn't too relevant, and I need to store ...
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Is it a good idea to develop non-trivial 2d game in python?
I am planning to develop 2D space RPG and i am facing the choice: what is the best language to write it in? My candidates are C++, Java and Python. Obviously, I want to write game in Python because of ...
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OpenGL - Stack overflow if I do, Stack underflow if I don't!
I'm in a multimedia class in college, and we're "learning" OpenGL as part of the class. I'm trying to figure out how the OpenGL camera vs. modelview works, and so I found this example. I'm trying to ...
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How do I communicate with an IronPython component in a C#/XNA game?
My XNA game is component-oriented, and has various components for position, physics representation, rendering, etc, all of which extend a base Component class. The player and enemies also have ...
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Creating a 2D skeleton animation system for use with Panda3D
Hey. I want to be able to create a system for 2D skeletal animation in my game. I'm using panda3d as my game engine. I'd like to be able to make simple bone structures and skin them with my sprites. I ...
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What's the best Python 3D engine? [closed]
I want a straight 3d Python engine that's easily obtainable for linux and easy to use. Soya3D failed for me because of the lack of documentation. I should be able to load common 3D models without an ...
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How can I distribute a native executable for a Python program?
Lately all of my work has been in Python (and Ruby), and I'm in love with those two languages. There are many libraries for game development on Python but the problem I see is that many of those ...
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Panda3D documentation, manual, and tutorials for offline viewing?
Is there a way to get the Panda3D's manual and tutorials available for offline viewing? I'm going on a business trip and I will spend a good deal of time at the airports and on long flights. I'd love ...
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How to render metaballs?
How to render metaballs?
I am a Python programmer familiar with the Panda3d and Blender3d APIs. My math kinda sucks, but I know enough to write game logic code and procedural model generation code, ...
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How can I incrementally generate an graph?
I just started a new project in which I'd like the game world to consist of procedurally-generated locations connected by teleporters. After a bit of research, I've discovered this to be called ...
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How can I resize pixel art in Pyglet without making it blurry?
I have a tileset of 8x8 pixel images, and I want to resize them in my game so they'd be double that (16x16 pixels, e.g. turning each pixel into a 2x2 block.) What I'm trying to achieve is a ...
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How to write reuseable components for pygame
Is there a recommended way to write reuseable components for pygame? Simple example would be a FPS counter. Should I write a class which has an init, update and draw method and call them from inside a ...
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Collision detection performance problem
Using python and pygame I've built a collision detection system according to the instructions in this YouTube tutorial.
This is updated 40 times per second and controls movement and collision ...
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Handling random with unique chance in Python
Okay, let's say you have a handful of enemies, each with their own 'rarity' to spawn.
For example:
monsterlist = []
snake = 'snake', 60
wolf = 'wolf', 80
antlion = 'antlion', 30
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Alternative to pyGame? [closed]
i'm learning something about game programming from a book about "pyGame". pyGame is simple, but... python is a little complex and different from my previous knoweledge about programming.
I know ...
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Issue with implemented Minesweeper algorithm
So I'm attempting to learn Python by way of Minesweeper. I've got experience with SDL, so I figured playing around with PyGame sounded like a fun way to learn the syntax of the language.
Anywho, I'm ...
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Are there any good engines for isometric collision detection and platforming?
I've decided to resurrect an old game idea I had years ago. I currently have zero experience with programming, but I'm going to begin studying either C#, Python or both in the near future.
The issue ...
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What resources are available to read and share pyglet code?
I am a Python programmer (I know the ins and outs decently well), and I have dabbled with Pygame. I want to make 3D applications and games, and so naturally I've been looking at OpenGL.
pyglet uses ...
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Client-side login and password save
I'm wondering what would be the best way to store password and login in the client. Many people complain that they need to re-enter this every time they log in and they want me to make a way to save ...
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Web-based micro-transaction API
I am currently making a browser-based game and I would like to integrate micro-transactions. However I would prefer not to have to implement my own storefront. Does anyone know of an available ...
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What is the best online game framework for Python?
I want create online game with Python. Is there any framework or library to make it easier? I would like it if the framework provided things like character attributes, such as health.
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How to implement armor? [closed]
I am a newbie in Python, I am very bad at math too and I need some help. Also close/move this post if you feel this isn't the right place for it.
Hero1 = 5000 # His HP is 5k.
Hero1dmg = 200 # ...
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Game clock Synchronization in python
I am working on a network game project in python which we want to keep synchronized. I would assume we should use Network Time Protocol to cater for different levels of lag.
That being the case, is ...
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Writing Logic behind card games
I'm not a dev noob, but definitely never done anything in game dev. There is a trump based card game we play in town that I plan on coding. I'll be either using python/ajax/pyqt or c++/qt.
My ...
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Best way to network the movement of 2D tanks?
I'm working on a multiplayer Flash game with a Python server and I have a quick question regarding how I should send positional updates for tanks for other players.
Should I choose
Option A:
When ...
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Does it make sense to use Lua scripting in a game developed in Python?
Well for C++ written games using Lua scripts for easy changing ai, quets etc is very reasonable and it's common. However now I'm going to write a game in pure python and I don't know if I should use ...
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2D destructable terrain with collisions in MMO
Task
What I want is to create destructable terrain (like in Worms) and collisions with this terrain (with calculated normals) that will be fast enough to work on server machine.
Basically lets say ...
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Problem in blitting a clean, crisp sprite
I am having a bit of a tooling problem...and I am unsure of how to solve it.
I am currently using PyGame to try and write a simple Minesweeper clone, except my sprites that I made are hexagon based ...
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How do I sync entity ids with the server and client?
I'm continuing my experimentation with entity component design by making a multiplayer space/trading/combat game with python and panda3d. My component system is a simple version of java's artimis. The ...
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pygame.Rect around circle
I'm trying to make a pong game in pygame, but I can't figure out how to put a ball circle, which I can create with pygame.draw.circle into a pygame.Rect object so i can use the colliderect function to ...
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Efficient player state architecture in Google App Engine
I am investigating Google App Engine for use in a browser based MMO. The player will make a server request when ever they build, buy or do any other action that the server needs to process. Therefore ...
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Pygame: circular motion with Bresenham's algorithm
I'm trying to figure out a way to move an object in a circular path. I read about Bresenham's circle algorithm, but all the codes available online draw an entire circle.
For my game, I want it so ...
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Pathfiding for groups of agents
How can we refine this path search method to make group movement more elegant? I'm trying to make a RTS-style game, using a 2d tiled gameworld. I have implemented an A* pathfinding algorithm which ...
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How do I create a selection rectangle?
I have a basic prototype working with health, resources and units. The problem is: How do I select multiple units? I have an idea of making an rectangle which dynamically extends with the mouse ...
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Python float 32bit to half float 16bit
I'm trying to write a 3D model exporter addon for Blender in Python and need some help.
The spec of the 3D format uses some compression on the vertices, there is a vertex buffer that contains ...
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Python or C server hosting for indie development
I've written a lot of the game, but it's singleplayer. Now we want to join up and play together.
I want to host it like an MMO, but haven't got any personal ability to host (no static IPs or direct ...
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Pygame performance issue for many images
I've made a script for generating a game world based off of image pixel data.
Trying to make a python map editor
My progress so far has resulted in a program which loads an image and draws sprites ...
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Collision library for bullet hell in Python
I am making a bullet hell game in Python and am looking for a suitable collision library, taking the following into consideration:
The library should do 2D polygon collision.
It should be very fast. ...
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Why can't I import third-party modules I've installed in the python-ogre SDK's interpreter?
Background Information
I'm using the python-ogre SDK, located here, under Windows 7. The SDK seems to have its own interface to the python 2.7 interpreter, judging from the fact that the generic ...
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Creating Animal Crossing style world rendering with Python
I've dabbled a bit with writing 3D rendering code in the past, although I'm interested in knowing if there is existing code (libraries) written for/with bindings to Python that might facilitate the ...
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Blender - creating bones from transform matrices
Notice: this is for the Blender 2.5/2.6 API.
Back in the old days in the Blender 2.4 API, you could easily create a bone from a transform matrix in your 3d file as EditBones had an attribute named ...
