game-development

[sharp lake]

very cool ! But it is possible to just make a big dettailled map created by me and not infinite without the list for the colisions ?

[foggy python]

yes

it's the same thing

[tranquil girder]

Does it start at 0? If so, it will do it for 0, 1, 2 and 3, a total of 4 times

[tranquil girder]

You increment it after the check. When you print the value, you've already incremented it. You're not priting the value you're checking in the if statement, but after you've modified it.
The first time you do the if check it's 0, which is <= 3
The second time it's 1, which is <= 3
The third time it's 2, which is <= 3
The fourth time it's 3 which is <= 3

[unkempt wren]

!mute 787344408122097704 "10 minutes" Please stop spamming a random video in a bunch of channels.

[frank field]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied timeout to @pulsar ruin until <t:1680656910:f> (10 minutes).

[wind bloom]

ok so in your first function level_up()
you declare some global variables

also use them a number of times

[unreal jetty]

yeah

[wind bloom]

but you make those variables way later after the func

now it's not an error
but you'd want to move them to the top

.
.
.

[unreal jetty]

kk

[wind bloom]

on line 245

while choice not in ["str", "dex", "con", "int", "wis", "cha", "leave"]:
            print("Choose - Str, Dex, Con, Int, Wis, Cha (type 'leave' to exit): ")
            choice = input("").lower()

this is correct
but not good
delete the print()
and write the message inside input()

if you want extra line
use \n

if choice == "leave":
            break

if you want to exit the game
use sys.exit()
break is only gonna break the loop and move to next line of code

[unreal jetty]

what about just exit()?

[wind bloom]

i belive sys.exit() is safer to use

[unreal jetty]

oh okay

[wind bloom]

but have to check that one

[unreal jetty]

alrighty, the leave is just to get out of the starting shop part and move out of it

[wind bloom]

if choice in ["str", "dex", "con", "int", "wis", "cha"]:
            index = attributes.index(choice.capitalize())

this is interesting to me
but you maybe want to have some sort of error handling
since it can raise error
but up to you

[unreal jetty]

alrighty

wanting to start over and do it again from scratch. but more organized cause atm looking at it gives me a headache

trying to understand a few things and get a template down for what is a better way of doing it.

[wind bloom]

you have a specific question?

[unreal jetty]

so to better organize it i should split into different files and import ?

[wind bloom]

that could help

[unreal jetty]

for dictionary i was trying to use it into my shop for creating a character but im not sure how to really use it so i created a new one. i was wanting to use my items_list dic but couldnt really figure it out.

[wind bloom]

also spliting the functions would be good

[unreal jetty]

splitting functions? like in their own file?

[wind bloom]

like
level_up() is way too big

[unreal jetty]

so into parts?

[wind bloom]

parts of different functionality

like get the input and input validation in one
and applying the level up in another

[unreal jetty]

oh ok that makes sense

[wind bloom]

also
you can pass in your variables inside the functions with arguments
instead of using global

tho that would add some line of code cause you'd have to return them and assign them

[unreal jetty]

i learned about global so i started using it since it was quicker lol

[wind bloom]

also add comments

global in general isn't a good thing to use

unless you have to

[unreal jetty]

oh okay

guess you wouldnt need to use them really at all if it was all split up into different files

[wind bloom]

sometimes it's the only way

but not often

cause returning values can get kinda tricky sometimes

[unreal jetty]

oh okay, makes sense

[wind bloom]

and make your variables before using them in function
better readability

[unreal jetty]

okay so put them all at the top like i did for a bunch of them?

like in a section

[wind bloom]

not all
just the ones you use in that function

[unreal jetty]

oh okay

guess better organization also

[wind bloom]

over all it looks like an interesting game

hope you get it giong

[unreal jetty]

alrighty, so does it look out of wack lol

didnt want everyone looking at it and being like, 'what' is that mess lol

i really do appreciate the help and review, ur the first person i have talked to about using python. it helps alot so again thanks

just trying to make sure i was on the right track.

[wind bloom]

wait till you meet someone who actually knows python well 🙂

[unreal jetty]

lol

[wind bloom]

i just talk too much
not a good coder

[unreal jetty]

well better then me, you helping me fix things already lol

[prime jasper]

Oh thank you, but should i sort the main game layers like map or the sprite layer

I don't have a sprite layer actually

[versed aurora]

i finally got my 2048 to work as i wanted it to

lemme run it through a code beautifier and i’ll post it

the algorithm i use basically tries to move all tiles as far as possible, merges any it can, then moves them again

before that i was just updating them a couple times which meant that if you had a stack of mergable tiles they'd all merge as much as possible; 2 2 2 2 would become 8 instead of 4 4

https://github.com/Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts/blob/main/2048.py
this might not work on linux due to a few system calls? i might update it

[versed aurora]

making a super basic powder sim, maybe i'll do something with it

expanded

it gets kinda laggy at about 1k particles

this is 750

[tall canyon]

I want to become a game

[fallow finch]

omg call 911

[covert panther]

wow mahn pretty good

[versed aurora]

thx, i just threw it together to test the concept

The idea is each particle of ‘powder’ checks first if there’s an empty tile below it, if not it checks the corners

If there’s only one corner open it chooses that corner and if both are open it chooses a random one of the corners

[covert panther]

I see, cool. When all put together, it is as though a water or sand has been poured from the Top

[versed aurora]

yeah

someone as a joke said ‘recreate powder toy’ and i decided to test the concept though in the simplified way

right now it’s kinda unoptimized (at least compared to powder toy which handles tens of thousands of particles without much issue)

The code is also a bit of a mess since i just focused on testing the concept

It’d be nice if there was a ‘simulation’ or other category that would fit what i post, i do make games but a lot of stuff i make is just messing around with concepts really

[hearty quartz]

i made a 3d engine... i wanted to make doom but i made this

https://www.github.com/nate-4000/frame

[dry cloak]

Flappy bird but with swords because im so original

[tall canyon]

I need a help for making a game

This game not ditto

https://youtu.be/wi1S-N2bC10

[errant niche]

How to program a pygame with an actually good car movement handleing?

I mean like actually with acceleration_factor RMP...

I already figured out the turning

[dry cloak]

I dont really know how cars work

If you could elaborate i might be able to help

[normal silo]

https://www.asawicki.info/Mirror/Car Physics for Games/Car Physics for Games.html

[errant niche]

Thanks

[fallow finch]

the projects of dafluffypotato are open source if thats what you want

[covert bolt]

#1035199133436354600

[versed aurora]

the keyboard control is kind of shit so i'm gonna rewrite it probably

what i've been using is fine for stuff where you don't need to hold keys but in this case it makes the movement feel very 'sticky'

def get_keys():
    keys = []
    for i in range(0x07,0x64):
        key = ctypes.windll.user32.GetKeyState(i)
        if key in [0xff80,0xff81]:
            keys.append(chr(i))
    return keys

quick and dirty but it works

[versed aurora]

this actually works WAY better

msvcrt seems to not handle holding keys well, with the new code it's so much smoother

[fallow finch]

damn

isnt there some simple python lib to support more platforms

[versed aurora]

probably yeah

you could probably just have it check if it's windows or linux and use the according code

[fallow finch]

i mean some libs do abstraction for most oses

[versed aurora]

the whole point of what i'm doing is that i'm not using libs but yes

[fallow finch]

why are all people here using python but they want to do stuff from scratch

[versed aurora]

more of a challenge, but i like the syntax of python

i don't do everything from scratch mind you, but a good amount of it is

[fallow finch]

writing abstraction for mac and some other oses is something you generaly don't want to do

[versed aurora]

i will simply make my scripts not run on mac

[fallow finch]

python has a module called os that really shows its not made for you to make that abstraction yourself

[versed aurora]

it just explodes your computer if you run it using mac lmao

wait hold on the keyboard module has mouse support?

lemme guess it's screenspace

oh it's mouse
very ... creative naming scheme

yeah it is

writing your own vector classes be like

[versed aurora]

wrote a simple test script to mess with movement using the new key system, i can now get reliable diagonal movement

movement_directions = vec2(0, -1), vec2(-1, 0), vec2(0, 1), vec2(1, 0)
movement_keys = ["W", "A", "S", "D"]
def handle_keys():
    dir = vec2(0,0)
    movement_keys_pressed = [i for i in k if i in movement_keys]
    if '\r' in k:
        pass
    if any(movement_keys_pressed):
        first_key = movement_keys_pressed[0]
        dir = movement_directions[movement_keys.index(first_key)]
        if len(movement_keys_pressed) > 1:
            second_key = movement_keys_pressed[1]
            dir+=movement_directions[movement_keys.index(second_key)]
            dir/=2
    return dir

i haven't bothered really optimizing this (not that it really needs it) but it works

the trail is just a simple insert-pop system with a list of positions

the string i'm using right now for the trail characters is "⬤⬣●◾•⬝ "

particle spawning, cause why the hell not

sorry about the weird recording, OBS messed up

[calm spear]

Hello! I have been struggling lately to add a simple PNG to a circle in Pygame. For some reason all I get is a big black square instead of a circle with a picture inside. Here is the original code I wrote: https://hastebin.com/share/zoruqosubi.python

I have tried to modify my code as followed ```python

Create a new surface with the same size as the circle

image_surface = pygame.Surface((PLANET_RADIUS * 2, PLANET_RADIUS * 2))
# Draw the planet
pygame.draw.circle(image_surface, WHITE, (SCREEN_WIDTH // 2, SCREEN_HEIGHT // 2), PLANET_RADIUS)
# Get the rect of the image surface
image_rect = planet_texture.get_rect(center=planet_texture.get_rect().center)
# Blit the planet texture onto the new surface
image_surface.blit(planet_texture, image_rect)``` But it still doesn't work. Would anyone know how to fix this?

[calm spear]

# Create a new surface with the same size as the image
    image_surface = pygame.Surface((image.get_width(), image.get_height()))
    image_surface.fill(WHITE) # replace this with your desired color
    image_surface.set_colorkey(WHITE)
    # Draw the planet on the new surface
    pygame.draw.circle(image_surface, BLACK, (image.get_width() // 2, image.get_height() // 2), PLANET_RADIUS)
    
    # Blit the planet texture onto the new surface
    image_surface.blit(image, (0,0))
    
    # Center the new surface on the screen
    image_rect = image_surface.get_rect(center=(SCREEN_WIDTH // 2, SCREEN_HEIGHT // 2))
    
    # Blit the new surface onto the screen
    screen.blit(image_surface, image_rect)
    
    # Draw the atmosphere
    for i in range(1, ATMOSPHERE_THICKNESS + 1):
        alpha = int((math.sin(math.pi * i / (2 * ATMOSPHERE_THICKNESS))) * 255)
        color = (BLUE[0], BLUE[1], BLUE[2], alpha)
        pygame.draw.circle(screen, color, (SCREEN_WIDTH // 2, SCREEN_HEIGHT // 2), PLANET_RADIUS + i, i)

    # Draw the light source
    pygame.draw.circle(screen, LIGHT_SOURCE_COLOR, LIGHT_SOURCE_POS, LIGHT_SOURCE_RADIUS)

    # Update the screen
    pygame.display.update()``` found the solution

[snow hill]

https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter

[echo wadi]

nice

[marble jewel]

Big Chungus Devlog 11 - New Items, Jewelry, and Color Lighting - Made with Pygame and Python: https://youtu.be/mj1m4aLmLnA

[versed aurora]

nice, i plan on making an isometric game some time

[unreal jetty]

Could someone help with a text game I'm messing around with. I'm equipping a duplicate weapon from my dictionary in 2 slots and it bugs out.

https://hastebin.com/share/odupotehav.python

[versed aurora]

darkening particles based on their life value adds a nice fading effect

[versed aurora]

there we go, fixed collisions

i can make them emit particles with a key

[quasi patrol]

@versed aurora you making own game library?

[versed aurora]

im just making a tech demo for now but possibly

neat

[quasi patrol]

is that text?

[versed aurora]

yes

[quasi patrol]

oh

intresting

you using ansi

?

@versed aurora

[versed aurora]

yes

the rendering is really unoptimized for the circles, ngl

[fallow finch]

do you have "blitting functions" for circles and rects making a stack and then creating the lines of text for each frame ?

[versed aurora]

i'm gonna redo it but i was just checking each pixel to see if it is in radius or not

ok what is up with the keyboard module

i just wanna get a fucking keypress i dont wanna set up a hotkey or whatever

or is it just not working with character codes

yeah seems like it just isn't working with character codes??

lemme guess it uses its own indexing or whatever

bruh

[fallow finch]

its so annoying nowadays

on windows 7 you could do alt + a number to test the things

[versed aurora]

oh wait i'm dumb it's not hte character codes, it's how i'm checking them

now i need to get the list into my script

i'm making a addition to my script that uses the keyboard module because someone actually wants to run it on linux

and like, i'm still running the windows code if their os is windows, so it's not big deal to me

ok im confused because in their source they have a key list for windows but not linux????

ok this is wack lmao

[versed aurora]

welp it works now, and it should be linux compatible

[versed aurora]

bresenham is ugly but it works, ig

it can handle 50 just fine

[arctic quartz]

game development how do u do that???

what game engine bruh

[versed aurora]

i do it from scratch

i made it so the particles can actually push the balls around

[versed aurora]

bresenham is good for a circular outline but im using a combo of it and my own circle algo for the filling

[torn jackal]

hello there, i am currently making a big 2D video game, but I don't manage to get several events in the same time.
This is my for loop events :
`
for event in pygame.event.get() :
if event.type == QUIT :
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()

        if event.type == KEYDOWN :
            if event.key == K_RIGHT and Player.x < Player.New_coords(1536-400, Player.y)[0] :
                Player.moove_right()

            if event.key == K_LEFT and Player.x > Player.New_coords(400, Player.y)[0] :
                Player.moove_left()

            if event.key == K_UP and Player.y > 0 : #y = 0 doesnt require to use New_coords() function (cuz it also just equals 0)
                Player.moove_up()

            if event.key == K_DOWN and Player.y + Sprite().scale_image(Player.image)[1] < Sprite().New_coords(0,864)[1]:
                Player.moove_down()

`
With this loop, i cannot get 2, 3 or 4 events in the same time. Please mention if you have any idea !

[eternal vessel]

you can use

keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
if keys[pygame.K_RIGHT]:
  Player.moove_right()```etc

[versed aurora]

how i did it (albeit in a different system) was use a movement direction (as a tuple or vector) and averaged out the direction if there was multiple keys

using events for keys in my experience isn’t really all that good for movement anyway

it leads to this really ‘sticky’ feeling movement, i prefer using a constant stream of keypresses instead

I have a function that returns a list of all the active keys and then i run that through a function that handles those keys and gives me an actual movement direction

[fallow finch]

or a "big" game your approach is bad imo

you should check the keys pressed to have better movement, and make correct code to structure each thing

you have very specific character movement in your main loop

[teal ember]

Using acceleration/forces also make nice smooth movement and jumps

For more smoothness non linear acceleration can be used which is set as a value proportional to the difference in current speed and the top speed

[fallow glade]

Thanks

[sonic owl]

    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type==pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            exit()
        if event.type==pygame.MOUSEMOTION:
            print(event.pos)
        
        if event.type==pygame.KEYDOWN:
            print("DOWN")

        if event.type==pygame.K_SPACE:
            player_gravity=-20
        
        
    screen.blit(test_surface,(0,0))

    object_rect.x=object_rect.x-4
    if object_rect.right<-10:
        object_rect.left=800

    
    screen.blit(object_surface,(object_rect.x,300))
    
    screen.blit(score_surface,(300,100))


    if player_rect.colliderect(object_rect):
        print("collision")

    keys=pygame.key.get_pressed()
    


    player_gravity=1
    player_rect.y=player_rect.y+player_gravity
    screen.blit(player_surface,player_rect)
    
        

        

    pygame.display.update()
    clock.tick(60)```

does anyone know y when i press space my character does not jump instead it prints down

can anyone help me with understanding pygame keys

[heavy osprey]

Hey,
(sorry if my following message will have some sentences write wrongly, i'm a french student)

I made a code for just spin a coloured cube with the module "OpenGL".
But faces were drawn incorrectly.
So, after make some researches, i understood that i had to enable the Depth Test.
But it doesn't work, and i don't understand why 😭
Can someone help me please ?

import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
import math
from OpenGL.GL import *
from OpenGL.GLU import *
import time

def draw_lines(x,y,z):
    glBegin(GL_QUADS)
    l = [[[(0,1,2,3),(4,5,6,7),(0,1,5,4),(1,2,6,5),(2,3,7,6),(3,0,4,7)],
           [(x+0,y+1,z+0),(x+1,y+1,z+0),(x+1,y+0,z+0),(x+0,y+0,z+0),(x+0,y+1,z+1),(x+1,y+1,z+1),(x+1,y+0,z+1),(x+0,y+0,z+1)],
           [(0,0,1),(1,0,0),(1,0.5,0),(0,1,1),(0.5,0.5,0.5),(1,1,0)]]]
    for obj in l:
        for edge in range(len(obj[0])):
            for points in obj[0][edge]:
                glColor(obj[2][edge])
                glVertex3fv(obj[1][points])
    glEnd()


run = True
def main():
    global a
    global run
    pygame.init()
    display = (1200,800)
    pygame.display.set_mode(display, DOUBLEBUF|OPENGL)
    gluPerspective(70, (display[0]/display[1]), 0, 1000.0)
    glRotate(-45,1,0,0)
    glRotate(45,0,0,1)
    glTranslate(2,2,-4)
    glDepthFunc(GL_LEQUAL)
    
    while run:
        glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT)
        glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST)
        draw_lines(0,0,0)
        glRotate(1,0,0,1)
        pygame.display.flip()
        time.sleep(1/20)
        
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                pygame.quit()
                run = False
main()
pygame.quit()

[limber tangle]

idk where to ask this but how can i get a random letter without getting some letter for example the letter r

[heavy osprey]

import random
alphabet = 'azertyuiopqsdfghjklmwxcvbn'
def get_a_random_letter(banned_letter):
  l = random.choice(alphabet)
  while l in banned_letter: l = random.choice(alphabet)
  return l

it's not the best way... but it's work

[limber tangle]

ohh thanks

[fallow finch]

you're creating a string called alphabet with a letter to then ban it

that makes no sense

ah nvm its a function

[heavy osprey]

But just use it ONLY for a simple code

Anybody have knowledge about "culling face" in OpenGL?

[heavy osprey]

Or "depth test"

[tranquil girder]

maybe you could do something like this?

alphabet_without_banned_letter = [char for char in alphabet if char != banned_letter]
return random.choice(alphabet_without_banned_letter)

[heavy osprey]

Yes it's better

[tranquil girder]

oh, you answered. I thought it was their code lol. my bad

[muted wadi]

def return_which_image(x, y):
    for index, animal in enumerate(animal_positions):
        image_rect = animal['image'].get_rect()
        image_rect.x = animal['pos_x']
        image_rect.y = animal['pos_y']
        if image_rect.collidepoint(x, y):
            return animal['image'], (animal['pos_x'], animal['pos_y']), index
    return None
images_into_dict()
blit_images()
while True:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            exit()
        if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
            x, y = event.pos
            image_to_show = return_which_image(x, y)
            if image_to_show is not None and showed_images < 2:
                showed_images += 1 if image_to_show[0] in (hide, hide2) else showed_images
                main_e.blit(image_to_show[0], image_to_show[1])
                which_image_blitted[image_to_show[2]] = image_to_show[0]
                print(showed_images)
                blit_images()
            elif image_to_show is not None and showed_images >= 2:
                showed_images = 0
                for i, animal in enumerate(animal_positions):
                    if which_image_blitted[i] not in (hide, hide2):
                        which_image_blitted[i] = animal['hide']
                blit_images()
    pygame.display.update()
    clock.tick(60)```
hello, im making a memory game using pygame but when i click image in window which is not hidden it counts showed_images, how do i fix it so it can show only 2 images at same time and if i click showed image it not count as i show a new image. hope u know what i mean

[muted wadi]

if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
    if event.key == pygame.K_SPACE:
        player_gravity -= 20```

[sonic owl]

tysm i got it

[glass pivot]

Can someone give me a hint regarding Steam server queries, I'm trying to use python-a2s library (https://github.com/Yepoleb/python-a2s) and the demo code isn't working, I'm not sure if there's a better package, or some better way to do this, or I'm just not able to follow simple instructions. 🙂 (Please @ me) Thanks!

import a2s
address = ("chi-1.us.uncletopia.com", 27015)
a2s.info(address)

[dawn quiver]

Hey, please do you think someone can use anyhow PC to start game development in Python?

[frank field]

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[eternal vessel]

You should be able to do game development in Python on any computer

[swift narwhal]

how can i download unreal 5.2

[fallow finch]

i think you wanted to write this in google

[swift narwhal]

yep i did it

and google said "u need epic games"

and i said "ok" then i didnt find it

[fallow finch]

UE5 is free to download, you have to pay only if your game makes more than $100k

also this is not related to this channel

UE5 is C++, you can also install something to use Lua for scripting but no python

[swift narwhal]

Ok

[gentle bay]

Hey, I currently make maps in my game like:

map1 = ["x","f","f","x",
        "f","f","f","f",
        "x","f","f","x",
        "f","x","x","f"]

each string represents a tile, and there will be 90 total in a full room. I wanted to know if anyone had a tool to make the process of making these lists faster?

[normal silo]

Paint. Pixel color is the type.

[gentle bay]

collisions

and doors

and enemy spawn locations

[normal silo]

Can all be done in Paint.

[gentle bay]

like ms paint?

[normal silo]

Yup or any other.

[gentle bay]

I know I can make maps but I want walls

[normal silo]

The question was how to make maps.

[gentle bay]

with my system

sorry

thought I was clear

edited the original question

[normal silo]

Sure, make a converter that takes an image and outputs such a list.

[fallow finch]

so first you can use a list of lists or a numpy array to make the map

[gentle bay]

wait

before you type a lot

I can already load a map

I just need to make those lists

[fallow finch]

then the best for storing and reading maps is a json file because it can easily be modified

don't make the maps in the code

a famous tool to make maps is tiled, it saves the maps as a xml-like format that you can use in your game or convert to your own thing

[gentle bay]

oo

[fallow finch]

there's even a package called pytmx to use the tiled files in pygame or pyglet without making your own code

but i recommend using your own format by converting the tiled maps later

[fallow finch]

but in general, it's not 1980, things don't have to be hardcoded

game levels, stats, ... can be json files or any other files

[tender bridge]

very specific question, but i’m making a procedurally generated terrain system for my game in pygame using the noise library, but when the terrains generated it paints the terrain as one big rect rather than individual texts

rects

if that makes sense?

[sharp lake]

hey, I want to make collisions in my game, I have a list of list that represent each tiles, if it's empty it's a 0, and if there is anything it's a 1. My goal is to make a method that will create rect on the tiles where there is a 1.
I followed multiples tutorial but there is a mix between with incroprehensive codes and people using methods that work with very specific cases. My map is already created in Tiled, and I don't want to create each tiles of the map in my code.
Did someone know or have a tuto for creating such colision with a list of list ?

[fallow finch]

hardcoded maps are bad

you can use tiled files or convert them to your own format using an other script

if your game is a grid puzzle map you don't need rects for collision

if you have elements with different sizes or free move then just make rects based on position and size of the elements

[potent ether]

Made a complete platformer game with pygame. I refactored the code a bit in the last days, so you can take it as an inspiration or blueprint for your own project: https://github.com/TomSchimansky/SegwayJump-Game

[sharp lake]

Thanks for the respond, my game is a platformers and I really don’t find a lot documentation of how to do collisions.

[sharp lake]

Thank you ! I will check that for sure

[fallow finch]

colliderect method in pygame

you know this ?

[sharp lake]

Yes

But I have to create the rectangles for each tile in my map

And I have a method that create a rectangle for each tile, but after that I don’t know what to do

[fallow finch]

there's collide list

you should really read the docs before trying to make an actual project

[sharp lake]

The pygame doc about the rect is awful

[normal silo]

Are your tiles either solid 1 squares or empty 0 squares? There are no non-square shapes?

Does you player controlled character move 1 tile at a time in movement (is the player locked to the tile map grid for movement) or is the character free from the grid (moving around with distances smaller than 1 grid cell size)?

[sharp lake]

The character can move freely, and actually my list is just a list of rect with coordinates and all the same size of 32x32px

[normal silo]

You can have a list of list of binary in that case.

They all have the same size, so you only need to store that in one place once.

e.g. cell_width, cell_height = 32, 32

You don't actually need any pygame rects for this.

Or pygame collision.

[sharp lake]

ok, so how do I made the collision without the colliderect?

[sharp lake]

I like the physics and the moving part of your game, very nice

[potent ether]

Thanks!

[normal silo]

So when your character moves, before moving store the current position. Then move the character. Now check the new position's tile position and see if it's in a solid tile. If it's in a solid tile then you know that the collision happened somewhere on the line between the previous position and the new position. There are several ways to find the exact contact point on this line. One simple (although not the most efficient) way is to do a binary search along this line.

[sharp lake]

So I can use these elements in the list of list of binaries to check if it’s solid or not ?
Did you have an example or something ?

[normal silo]

Given some point, you can find out which cell the point lies in, then you can check the value in that cell. If it's 1 then the point is in a solid block, which is a collision.

[sharp lake]

Okay, thank you for that, I will try this tomorrow.

[soft urchin]

anyone know how to rotate a pymunk box?

[dawn quiver]

hey need some help with my game on steam

50% of people are getting virus notifications when its not ? it is a compiled python program. any ideas to fix this ?https://store.steampowered.com/app/2363270/Darkside/

Steam

Darkside

Darkside Hacking is a revolutionary video game that immerses you in the world of hacking. With detailed graphics, intense scenarios, and unique challenges, Darkside Hacking takes you on a high-stakes journey of digital exploration. Become the ultimate hacker and conquer the virtual world of cybersecurity. Experience the thrill and fun of being a...

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[hushed vine]

i think thats just how it is downloading programs from the internet, i have had similar with other games as well

[broken palm]

I might be completely wrong but I believe it has smth to do with you not having a "license"

So you are an unknown author to windows

[robust hearth]

How did you package it? Try compiling it as cython, which basically makes it a c executable

[fallow finch]

its a problem because you're using pyinstaller

to convert python into a non-virus (its not virus otherwise) exe, you can use :

• cx_freeze, makes safe exes but bytecode files will be present and there's a lot of files in general
• nuitka commercial, can make all-in-one safe exes
• a digital signature, they're not free but your exes will not be detected as malware with this

cx_freeze is probably the way to go for you, that's generaly what DDLC and other known python games use for packaging

[fallow finch]

cython is more made for some parts of a project or library i guess

you can't convert all of pygame or other libs used to cython, or maybe i'm not aware of this

[errant niche]

How could I see a pygame.Surface in vscode while the code is stopped in debug mode?

is there an extension or sg?

[fallow finch]

you should probably find a way around to debug your code

even for the python ides i don't know extensions for pygame

[lyric robin]

Is there any vulkan python language available?
And is moderngl good to start with graphics?

[fallow finch]

if you mean a library to use vulkan with python, i can find this on github

https://github.com/realitix/vulkan

but vulkan is really low level and probably not suited if you just want to make a game

[lyric robin]

I want to make a real time render engine

[fallow finch]

moderngl is good but it's a pure opengl wrapper, doing a full game with opengl isnt easy if you're beginner

pyglet is an opengl wrapper that is maybe more suited

ah you want to make a game engine

[lyric robin]

So i just want to get started on how to make graphics and understanding concepts

[lyric robin]

Yes kind of. Or improve an existing one

[fallow finch]

moderngl is the best pure opengl wrapper imo

moderngl is just for the graphics rendering part, you have to use something else to make a real app with it or code it yourself

pyglet is a higher level opengl wrapper (just like lwgjl, the thing used in minecraft) that is completely made in python if you want to check this

[lyric robin]

Is it easier to understand than the real opengl?

[fallow finch]

there's no "real opengl"

opengl isnt software, its a standardized api, you can just use an implementation of it

moderngl and pyopengl are 2 implementations made for python, i think moderngl is better

[lyric robin]

Oh ok. I will go with moderngl then but will also check out pyglet

Thanks for the help sus😁

[fallow finch]

pyglet is an opengl wrapper that is easier to use then raw opengl with its higher level functions, but it also contains code for making windows, checking events... with abstraction depending on the OS

you can also use GLUT to have windows for opengl but you still have to implement events/audio/a lot of things to make a game engine

pyglet is made in python while GLUT isnt, so you can check pyglet's code if you want to make your own thing

[lyric robin]

I will check it out then. Seems like a good library

[dawn quiver]

I wanted to buy a cert to sign it anyway

[fallow finch]

yea for a steam game that's a good thing to do

you can still try nuitka (the not commercial one) instead of pyinstaller

it's better to exclude some files and have the .DLLs outside of the exe

you can manually do it with pyinstaller too but that's a lot of work

[dawn quiver]

I use the paid pyarmor so uses pyinstaller

But money is not a issue

[fallow finch]

ah you have pyarmor

i was about to decompile your exe to tell you some useless files lol

[dawn quiver]

I mean can you try decompile ???

I'm curious on the protection

[fallow finch]

i'm pretty sure you have pygame examples, libs for webp, modplug and media formats you don't use...

72Mo is too big for a simple pygame app

i guess you have other libs but still

[dawn quiver]

pyarmor makes things 50% bigger

[fallow finch]

yea i get it now

[dawn quiver]

then I also included the data into it that added a extra 30 mb

like the pics etc

[fallow finch]

pyinstaller can have a key, idk how pyarmor uses it

[dawn quiver]

I put everything in

[fallow finch]

tbh everything can be decompiled

[dawn quiver]

Every setting I could turn on I did

[fallow finch]

pyinstaller is open source and people found the way to get the key

[dawn quiver]

tbh idc about the source code it's the network key I don't want them to have

[fallow finch]

ah yea

obfuscation will prevent most people from getting it

best protection would be to make an obfuscated c function to make it, but people will still be able to get it

[dawn quiver]

I have my ways 🙂

[fallow finch]

its long = it's better generaly

[dawn quiver]

well in the next update will be 8-15k long

Depends on performance 🤣

[fallow finch]

on my installation the assets are outside the exe

[dawn quiver]

ya

[fallow finch]

but pygame examples, for example, include sounds and images

pyinstaller will exclude nothing if you use it simply

[dawn quiver]

I use a lib called pygame gui and the way it imports the theme is weird

It imports it like a package

[fallow finch]

i never used it

so idk

i can try to decompile your thing if you want

[dawn quiver]

Trust me I tried for 4 hours straight. The theme will not work unless I include the data into the compile

[dawn quiver]

Yea

[fallow finch]

i use my own stuff for gui

[dawn quiver]

I like the gui it's really good

[fallow finch]

hacker.exe with a python snake icon looks like a virus tbh

pyinstaller key is used nowhere

just normal files but they're all super big

wait

are they even obfuscated

also, you have in fact every lib potentially used in pygame and maybe others

libopenblas is huge and is used for numpy, if you don't use numpy you should definitely not have it, otherwise you can have it in your project's folder to make exe size smaller

the other unused media ones can be removed (webp, modplug, ...)

[dawn quiver]

Interesting

I'll look through what I import and cut down

Tbh I test so much stuff I sometimes forget

[fallow finch]

actually the app itself is encrypted with the pyinstaller key method

[dawn quiver]

But I'll get a icon I guess 🤣

[fallow finch]

icon ?

[dawn quiver]

You said this

[fallow finch]

ah yea

don't use pyinstaller icon for a steam game

[dawn quiver]

steam did it for me and I was lazy

[fallow finch]

and you also need an icon for the game window itself right

i think you use pygame's 4-bits snake image

[dawn quiver]

Does windows not just use the icon from the exe??

[fallow finch]

.exe icon is not related to window icon at all

window icon can be everything and change all the time if you want

while .exe icon means nothing

[dawn quiver]

Interesting

[fallow finch]

its just contained in the .exe

[dawn quiver]

I'll look into it

[fallow finch]

that's more interesting to think the reverse thing

you can open exes with 7zip, you'll see the icon is just in a container not related to the code at all

[dawn quiver]

Were you able to extract any strings from the main program ??

[fallow finch]

decrypting pyinstaller encrypted apps is possible

because pyinstaller is open source

they don't use a key to obfuscate the code, the key is hidden somewhere

[dawn quiver]

well after the pyinstaller it's pyarmor

[fallow finch]

yes so it's pretty strong already

[dawn quiver]

they put in a new feature with the latest pyarmor called mix str

So just another layer of protection

[fallow finch]

idk how hard to decompile pyarmor paid version is

but i'm pretty sure there's at least one guy on the net that know how to do it

[dawn quiver]

owner already admited paid and free use diff ways to encrypt

[fallow finch]

the free is open source so...

[dawn quiver]

ya

Idk I can't find anything on github for a decompile not even for the free version

[fallow finch]

python wasnt created for apps so nor for encrypting the way you make the things work

but it's not the worst one and nothing can be 100% secure

java is definitely worse when it comes to protecting your bytecode

[dawn quiver]

tbh I only need the key to be 100% secure

[fallow finch]

yea, and python can use c/c++ code that is even harder to decompile

but it's still decompilable

[dawn quiver]

will be hard to get it to its original state tho

[fallow finch]

idk what language is the hardest to decompile, maybe Go or Rust, something not known by binja, ghidra and the others

[fallow finch]

python is bytecode so it can definitely be reversed to original state

but a c function can't

you can exactly know how it works but not get the real code

[dawn quiver]

So chuck my network key in a c function and import the key ??

[fallow finch]

obfuscated c function is higher protection than pyarmor yea

but it has to be obfuscated well

[dawn quiver]

Would I just use cython for that ?

tbh never made my own c import

[fallow finch]

you can but just writing c/c++ code is possible too

cython is not a built-in python thing, it creates a .c file based on a superset of python

[dawn quiver]

I will get up and do some testing. Pretty sure pyarmor encrypts imports aswell

[fallow finch]

like, from libc.stdlib cimport malloc, free looks like completely cursed python code but its valid cython code

you can use some c-like things to make better c code, its what cython does

[dawn quiver]

My server side is all cython

Seems to work well

[fallow finch]

ah yea you're using it already

nice

[dawn quiver]

it's not bad when people are generating like 2k networks at once it's only using like 5-10% cpu

mongo db on top

[fallow finch]

you can use cx_freeze to know what files are used in your game, it makes a standalone exe with bytecode files not bundled in

i generaly exclude every file that is not used in my python .exes

you can remove like 70-80% of the exe's size like this (+ moving the dlls outside)

[dawn quiver]

But would you not just get the same size but with the files outside of the program ??

[fallow finch]

yes

but then a good part are useless

so it's still a very large part that you can remove

[dawn quiver]

There is probs like 6 imports I'm not using

🤣

[fallow finch]

the dlls are actually compressed with UPX inside of the exe (openblas is 7MB instead of 32MB), but nothing prevents you to use UPX on the dlls outside

[fallow finch]

and that's like when you invite friends in parties

imports do other imports, ...

pygame can use numpy but if you don't use it it's 10MB of unused content

[fallow finch]

for some libs using UPX is maybe against the license, but that's what pyinstaller does in the normal way

i always UPX everything, even in other games that i own

[dawn quiver]

@fallow finch once I get my c import working can I just gcc it??

[fallow finch]

you have to cythonize your .pyx file (python code with maybe some cython things in it)

and it will create a .c file

you can then use gcc to compile it

if you want to make a function to provide a key you should compile as a dll file

[dawn quiver]

Arnt dlls easy to crack?

[fallow finch]

they are crackable just like exe files

you can also make a pyd files that you can "lazy import" using a pyi file, pyd files are actually machine code like dlls but i never made one so idk how they're made

any executable containing machine code can be decompiled using ghidra for example

not just dlls

[dawn quiver]

Hmm

[fallow finch]

you see this ?

[dawn quiver]

Yea ??

[fallow finch]

its a .pyd file, actually a dll but for python

it's imported in the asyncio module of python

that's an example of python package made in c

[dawn quiver]

Well I looked at my imports and I'm actually using all of them

[fallow finch]

if you open them with 7zip you'll see sections

just like in a dll of exe file

[fallow finch]

yea but you don't use everything in the libs

and libs can do other imports and you don't use those functionnalities

[dawn quiver]

yea

[fallow finch]

do you use numpy ?

[dawn quiver]

Nope

other libs might

[fallow finch]

so this file is here for nothing

do you use tracked music and web pictures ?

[dawn quiver]

I have music and pics yea

[fallow finch]

yea but you probably use common formats

like png, wav, ogg...

you probably don't use WEBP

or tracked music (XM, MOD, ...)

you probably don't use this as well

[dawn quiver]

probs not

[fallow finch]

now for the libs themselves

they use a lot of code and functions that you don't use

[dawn quiver]

I mean 80 mb not alot for game

[fallow finch]

for a .exe file it is

and you also have a copy of your assets in the exe

[dawn quiver]

Actually if I want to solve my exe problem I should push more

[fallow finch]

they're present 2 times in the distribution...

[dawn quiver]

most av won't scan a file if it's to big

[fallow finch]

that's not relevant here

[dawn quiver]

Had to do it this way

[fallow finch]

why

[dawn quiver]

Cause of the pygame gui

Weird import way of theme

[fallow finch]

alright but they're also present in your game folder

[dawn quiver]

Yea ik

So you can edit the theme

[fallow finch]

you should really not do this

[dawn quiver]

It's a weird and long story

[fallow finch]

and try to fix the problem

[dawn quiver]

I really did try 😭

[fallow finch]

the default python modules are also not always used but that's not the most relevant thing

just for you to know, 80% of the size of your distribution is useless

your game isnt >100MB at all 😉

[dawn quiver]

if I don't include the data into the pyinstaller not matter the path I put to the theme file it won't load it. I even hard coded it and tried to load the theme and still would not work

[fallow finch]

maybe in the pygame discord they can't help you for pygame gui

but at least if you use assets in the exe don't use them also outside of the exe

[dawn quiver]

true

[granite forum]

my progress with coding snake in python

import pygame
import os

WIDTH, HEIGHT = 600, 600
WIN = pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT))
pygame.display.set_caption("snake")

COLOR = (0,255,100)

FPS = 60

APPLE = pygame.image.load(os.path.join("sneak apple.png"))


def draw_window():
    WIN.fill(COLOR)
    WIN.blit(APPLE,(0,0))
    pygame.display.update()


def main():
    clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    run = True
    while run:
        clock.tick(FPS)
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                run = False

        draw_window()

    pygame.quit()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()```

currently just got a green screen with a red block

[zenith totem]

I hope this is the right place to ask, if not direct me elsewhere. I'm working on a game in Python for fun, training, and experience. I hope to release it for free (looong from now) However, one of the main reasons I'm using python is the extensive amount of libraries available for all sorts of different features, a lot of which I can import and save time by using someone else's work. I great example is namegenerator which is a wonderfully feature rich markov name generator.

My question has to do with licenscing. That library is MIT licensed, but others use the GLP 2 or 3, others use BSD and I'm sure there all sorts of other more obscure ones mixed in.

How can I make sure I'm being compatible with all these various licenses simultaneously?

[versed aurora]

nice, my method is entirely different so it might not help, but i made snake in terminal if you wanna look at it for reference: https://github.com/Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts/blob/main/snake_v_2.1.py

[versed aurora]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/oqowanefat
simple example i threw together of snake movement

[quasi patrol]

particals

[versed aurora]

yeah

[versed aurora]

https://github.com/Sea-Pickle/gloop_scripts/blob/main/tech_test_1.py
i might tweak this a bit but here

[pearl pewter]

I am a game dev and I am doing a survey.

For this I would like you all to answer one question. What is your favorite key for sprinting? (for any game)

Thank you for your time!

[fallow finch]

my favourite key is having settings to choose the key

i choose left shift generaly

[cunning raptor]

Aight bet

[pearl pewter]

That ofc but primarily

[dawn quiver]

usually left-shift

[pearl pewter]

ok

[cloud sedge]

Left shift

[pearl pewter]

it seems to be the most popular option

[cloud sedge]

I've never played a game that doesn't have it as the default.

[hushed vine]

Shift

[pearl pewter]

left or right?

left ig

[hushed vine]

Left

Ye

[pearl pewter]

too bad

I have

[hushed vine]

I do know some who play with right tho

[pearl pewter]

hmm ok

[hushed vine]

Seriously, where

[hushed vine]

Let them customise

[pearl pewter]

fosho

[pearl pewter]

some game in a jam

dont remember the name tho

[hushed vine]

Oh

[pearl pewter]

but remember gameplay cuz it was soooo wierd

[hushed vine]

Btw what game are u making?

[cloud sedge]

What did the game use instead?

[pearl pewter]

it used control

left

not a bad option either

[cloud sedge]

Oh dang that's funky, but yeah it would work.

[sly quail]

Sun vs Sun 2

pygame physics simulation

[cloud sedge]

The planets can sprint?

Ngl this looks fun

Is the goal to destroy the normal sun?

@sly quail

[sly quail]

they are moving ofc

[sly quail]

just created a sun clone inside the solar system and seeing what happens

[cloud sedge]

Ah gotcha

[marble jewel]

Devlog 12 - Forest Biome, New Items, Particle Updates - https://youtu.be/3o14ANHcSBo - Made entirely with Python and Pygame

[sly quail]

impressive

[marble jewel]

Thanks

[cloud sedge]

This looks awesome

I think this will be a great game 👍

When I get home I'll watch the full vid. My internet rn is so bad I can only see bits and pieces every 30 seconds xd

[marble jewel]

Thanks, be sure to like / subscribe / comment what you want to see, I'm more than happy to add things change things as people want (within reason)

[hushed vine]

looks so good dude

[marble jewel]

thanks

[dawn quiver]

If I could have some reddit users spare their time I need them to post on a page for a horror ARG I'm doing. I'm basically asking all the communities in discord I'm in for this. You don't need to do any programming I just need posts on the reddit page for decoration. I'm gonna be the one doing all the game stuff

T-T ah blessed copy and paste I've been at this for an hour with no luck

[sly quail]

@cloud sedge

Python physics simulation: "Sun vs Sun 2"

people give a review

[cloud sedge]

looks pretty cool! The planet trails make it very interesting to watch.

[vale skiff]

i am facing a problem of 1 file failed to validate i don't know what

is the problem

in steam

the game is csgo and due to this my fps are very very low

[still summit]

hello, i really wanna get into physics game stuff like ragdolls and such, but i don't really know how to implement those things well. does anyone have some suggestions?

[versed aurora]

shift or leftalt

[versed aurora]

you could add a 'orbit' mode instead of trails, like in universe sandbox, though that might be difficult
another cool thing would be a 'predicted trajectory' sort of thing like KSP or (once again) universe sandbox

in general it looks pretty good, what are you using to render, and what integration are you using for the movement?

[versed aurora]

platformer physics

[fallow finch]

adventure of empty dict

ah nvm its a ()

[gentle bay]

For pygame.sprite.collide_rect(arg1,arg2) what do the arguments have to be? I'm putting sprite objects through but it doesn't seem to be checking collisions right

class player(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, px, py, v, facex, facey):
        self.px = px
        self.py = py
        self.v = 2
        self.facex = facex
        self.facey = facey
        super().__init__()
        self.image = pygame.image.load("player.png")
            self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
    def update(self):
        self.rect.topleft = (self.px, self.py)

        #CHECK COLLISIONS
        collisions = []
        for blocks in mapgroup:
            print(blocks.Btype)
            if blocks.Btype != "x":
                return
            if pygame.sprite.collide_rect(player, blocks):         #this is what isnt working
                collisions.append(blocks)
        for wall in collisions:
            if self.rect.left.x < wall.rect.left.x:
                self.rect.right.x = wall.rect.left.x
            if self.rect.right.x > wall.rect.right.x:
                self.rect.left.x = wall.rect.right.x
            if self.rect.top.y < wall.rect.top.y:
                self.rect.top.y = wall.rect.top.y

This is the code for my player object

I know, a lot of if statements

it says blocks but that was bad naming by me

blocks is another sprite object

class block(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, Btype, x, y):
        self.Btype = Btype
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        super().__init__()
        self.image = pygame.image.load(Btype+".png")
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect()

    def update(self):
        self.rect.topleft = (self.x, self.y)

this one

[shadow wraith]

so coooool

[marble jewel]

try replacing it with:

player.rect.colliderect(blocks.rect)

[gentle bay]

k

[marble jewel]

also are you sure this is correct:

            if blocks.Btype != "x":
                return

maybe you want to continue instead of return

[gentle bay]

yes, if the Btype (block type) isnt a wall (x) I dont want it added to the list of collisions

[marble jewel]

right but you are returning which will end the update function

you should continue instead

[gentle bay]

:3

ah

should i just nest the next if statement then

and change condition

thats what ima do

I collided and got a crap load of errors

🎉

[marble jewel]

you can use a list comprehension here:

for wall in [block for block in mapgroup if block.Btype != "x" and block.rect.colliderect(player.rect)]:
            if self.rect.left.x < wall.rect.left.x:
                self.rect.right.x = wall.rect.left.x
            if self.rect.right.x > wall.rect.right.x:
                self.rect.left.x = wall.rect.right.x
            if self.rect.top.y < wall.rect.top.y:
                self.rect.top.y = wall.rect.top.y

[gentle bay]

im changing how that works rn

(stealing other code)

[sly quail]

thanks (their is a video too)

[sly quail]

i'm thinking about predicting trajectory for a while but in the current method I'm simulating, which is calculating attraction with every object every frame, idk how being honest

build with pygame

[dusky epoch]

I am working on creating this game. Interested can dm me

[dawn quiver]

im a beginner should i start with pygame? or start elsewhere?

[versed aurora]

pygame is p good
if you're a masochist you can do rendering from scratch but pygame makes it a lot easier

[versed aurora]

i can't find a good 2 wide circle icon ::(

[dawn quiver]

should i skip scratch altogether?

[versed aurora]

i feel like scratch doesn't really teach coding all that well but i could be wrong
it has loops and some features but it feels very detached from actual code

[dawn quiver]

oh okay

i googled pygame and someone said use pyglet? i believe its called

this is all confusing lol

[versed aurora]

you can do it with just pygame

before actually making a game i'd recommend messing around with the language first tbh

[fallow finch]

"you can do rendering from scratch" ?

you mean using opengl ?

[versed aurora]

no

well yes

but i meant text

[fallow finch]

so "don't use pygame make textual games"

or what

[versed aurora]

i said 'if you're a masochist'

if you want to make an actual serious game you're probably better off with pygame since it does more than just rendering anyway

[fallow finch]

pygame is based on the SDL2 library, can display 2d graphics with cpu or gpu and do everything you need for game apps
pyglet is an opengl wrapper with other game/multimedia related stuff (like lwgjl on java, the thing used in minecraft), it's more low level but can be used for 2d and 3d

pygame is easier and more popular so its easier to get help here

[versed aurora]

if you're starting out pygame is probably the better choice

there are a number of other options, though pygame is one of the most poplular as __sus__ said

lot of neat games coded in it

[fallow finch]

some other relevant options are :
Arcade : based on pyglet but just for 2d, has a bunch of predefined stuff to help you, the highest level of python 2d game libraries
Raylib : has a bunch of stuff for packaging and everything game related aside being a multimedia library like pygame/pyglet
PySDL2 : pretty raw bindings for SDL2 (will require a bit of C-like code) so its pretty fast but pygame is also based on SDL2 and not that much slower
GLUT with PyOpenGL/ModernGL : basically raw opengl, so its fast but not the easiest thing to start with
Panda3D : 3D game engine stuff that can be used in C++ and python at the same time
Ursina3D : 3D game engine stuff based on panda3d, higher level and also allows 2d games i think

[versed aurora]

there's also ren'py if you wanted to do visual novels of course

[fallow finch]

it's based on an old fork of pygame and uses a fork of cx_freeze for packaging, i think you can really use latest pygame-ce

[versed aurora]

ah

[fallow finch]

idk how easier to use than pygame it is

[versed aurora]

all i know is that it exists, really

[fallow finch]

same lol

there's this famous cringe game called DDLC made with it

i don't know any other tbh i'm not weeb

[versed aurora]

ddlc is def an interesting concept

[fallow finch]

you have to do something with the game files at some point ?

never played it so i'm not sure

[versed aurora]

i've seen a video talking about it fairly in depth but i haven't played it, it apparently has a 'fake' error that isn't fake and is actually a real error, which is pretty cool

[fallow finch]

a whole part of the game is this i think

everything is displayed as glitched and the game "restarts" but its fake

not a 100% original thing i would say

[versed aurora]

yeah but it actually logs it as an actual error, it's not just a sanity effect

[fallow finch]

that would give anxiety to me when i know the python bytecode files are available

[dawn quiver]

What can I do before attempting to make games on python?

[fallow finch]

know python

[dawn quiver]

i made tic tac toe so i basically mastered it

[fallow finch]

be sure you know all basic python objects (especially dicts) and oop

it's better to make games to use oop

[dawn quiver]

oop

object

oriented

p

[fallow finch]

-rogramming

that means use classes and objects

[dawn quiver]

I spend so much time stuck on stupid things, really slows down my learning

[fallow finch]

like what

[dawn quiver]

stuff

too embarrassing to say

[fallow finch]

thats sus

how can python be embarassing

[dawn quiver]

being new is cringe

[fallow finch]

theres nothing cringe in programming

[dawn quiver]

my friend has 10 yrs of experience i need learn that in a week

ok ill be realistic, 30 days

[cloud sedge]

trying to find out what is going wrong in your code for an hour only to realize the error in the terminal is a standard error that displays everytime you stop the program 🙂

not me at all in the past.

[fallow finch]

well there's cringe things in programming

like, there was a guy named roman who decided to replace self by his name recently

[cloud sedge]

dang

[gentle bay]

how do you do sweeping movement, where basically you shoot out raycasts and make sure you dont go through a wall

with pygame

can you check if the bottom right of a rect is colliding and so on with the other points

or is it just the whole rect

[proper peak]

for pygame people generally just collide the whole rect each physics tick

[gentle bay]

ive been trying to get collisions working for a day now

[proper peak]

you seem to be describing something similar to continuous collision detection (CCD), which is more advanced

[gentle bay]

I had a solution that would have worked, but I would need to loop through ~400 objects to have it work

idk I could make it better

[fallow finch]

400 objects ? are you sure you need so much

also there's collidelist()

[gentle bay]

my map is a 20x20 grid

maybe not 400 because most is floor

[fallow finch]

is there free movement and different size objects ?

[gentle bay]

all the same size

[fallow finch]

and free movement for players or enemies ?

[gentle bay]

the screen is 600x600 and everything is 30x30
free movement for both

[fallow finch]

if you don't have free movement then rects arent really needed

is your map handled by a dict ?

[gentle bay]

I made my own map loady thing that takes a list and places sprites one by one

then puts them all in a sprite group

[fallow finch]

how is the list working

[gentle bay]

?

[fallow finch]

format

[gentle bay]

map1 = ["x", "f", "f", "x",
        "f", "f", "f", "f",
        "x", "f", "f", "x",
        "f", "x", "x", "f"]

this is a small map

[fallow finch]

not the best way to handle the map

[gentle bay]

best thing I came up with and knew I could do

[fallow finch]

i would recommend a dict with position of objects, and you don't need to tell where there's floor

[gentle bay]

tru

[fallow finch]

{"object1": (20, 40), "object2": (20, 50), ...}

position could be a pygame.vector2 too

[gentle bay]

seems like it would be a lot of work to convert it

[fallow finch]

working with dicts is easier generaly

and faster too

[gentle bay]

        hero_x = self.px
        hero_y = self.py
        delta_x = self.vx
        delta_y = self.vy

        self.px += delta_x
        if pygame.sprite.spritecollideany(self, mapgroup):
            while pygame.sprite.spritecollideany(self, mapgroup):
                self.px -= delta_x / 4

this is what I have right now but it traps itself in a while loop, anyone know why? what it should be doing is inching itself away from the thing its hitting until its not.

this is the map btw

upon further debugging it does not seem to be moving the player much

[gentle bay]

        hero_x = self.px
        hero_y = self.py
        delta_x = self.vx
        delta_y = self.vy
        
        self.rect.x = hero_x
        self.rect.y = hero_y
        
        self.px += delta_x
        if pygame.sprite.spritecollideany(self, mapgroup):
            self.px -= delta_x
            self.rect.x = self.px
        self.py += delta_y
        if pygame.sprite.spritecollideany(self, mapgroup):
            self.py -= delta_y
            self.rect.y = self.py

why does this not work bruh

If we move in and were touching it, we move out, how does that not work

[normal silo]

https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/sprite.html#pygame.sprite.spritecollideany

It seems that it takes a function that tests if two sprites are colliding.

Not sure why this is even an optional argument and not required.

[gentle bay]

?

if the player is colliding with a wall the move in the opposite direction

so they should stop colliding with it

[normal silo]

Oh, nvm If collided is not passed, then all sprites must have a "rect" value, which is a rectangle of the sprite area, which will be used to calculate the collision.

This is a really ugly way of doing this.

[gentle bay]

this is like my 4th way

🥲

[normal silo]

Are you updating the rect to match the px and py position?

[gentle bay]

yeah

[normal silo]

Otherwise the rect and the sprite position are not matching.

[gentle bay]

    def update(self):
        if self.px < 0: self.px = 0
        if self.py < 0: self.py = 0
        if self.px + TILE_SIZE > 600: self.px = 600 - TILE_SIZE
        if self.py + TILE_SIZE > 600: self.py = 600 - TILE_SIZE

        self.rect.topleft = (self.px, self.py)

        # CHECK COLLISIONS

        hero_x = self.px
        hero_y = self.py
        delta_x = self.vx
        delta_y = self.vy
        if keys[pygame.K_LEFT]:
            print(delta_x)
            print("v is",self.vx)

        self.px += delta_x
        if pygame.sprite.spritecollideany(self, mapgroup):
            self.px -= delta_x
            self.rect.x = self.px
        self.py += delta_y
        if pygame.sprite.spritecollideany(self, mapgroup):
            self.py -= delta_y
            self.rect.y = self.py

heres my full update

V is changed according to what arrow key is pressed BEFORE this runs

[manic totem]

hey can someone help me why my .scale doesnt work

import pygame
import os
import time
import random
pygame.font.init()

WIDTH = 520
HEIGHT = 630
WIN = pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT))
pygame.display.set_caption("No One Escape")


ASTEROID = pygame.image.load("game assets/asteroid.png")
SPACE_SHIP = pygame.image.load("game assets/space ship.png")

UFO = pygame.image.load("game assets/ufo.png")

BLUE_LASER = pygame.image.load("game assets/blue laser.png")
GREEN_laser = pygame.image.load("game assets/green laser.png")

BACKGROUND = pygame.transform.scale(pygame.image.load("game assets/background.jpg"), (WIDTH, HEIGHT - 50))


class Ship:
    laser_image: None

    def __init__(self, x, y, width, height, health=100):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.width = width
        self.height = height
        self.health = health
        self.ship_img = None
        self.laser_image = None
        self.laser = []
        self.cool_down_counter = 0

        pygame.transform.scale(self.ship_img, (self.width, self.height))
        pygame.transform.scale(self.laser_image, (self.width, self.height))
    
    def draw(self, window):
        window.blit(self.ship_img, (self.x, self.y))


class Player(Ship):
    def __init__(self, x, y, width, height, health=100):
        super().__init__(x, y, width, height, health)

        self.ship_img = UFO
        self.laser_image = BLUE_LASER
        self.mask = pygame.mask.from_surface(self.ship_img)
        self.max_health = health

        

def main():
    run = True
    FPS = 60
    level = 1
    live = 3
    player_vel = 6
    main_font = pygame.font.SysFont("bitmap", 40)

    player = Player(240, 500, 30, 30)

    clock = pygame.time.Clock()

    def redraw_window():
        WIN.blit(BACKGROUND, (0, 0)
       ```

[gentle bay]

wut

like the background wont scale?

[manic totem]

not the back ground. the image i load

you see the image i use turn out to big

so i use .scale to make it smaller but it doesnt work

hold on

[normal silo]

print what pygame.sprite.spritecollideany(self, mapgroup) returns.

[manic totem]

nvm i found the problem

it fix now

[gentle bay]

cool

[gentle bay]

k

I print after the initial movement and after the correction

[normal silo]

Are there any None's?

During no collision.

[gentle bay]

when I start the program and havent moved to the sprite

yes

[normal silo]

And you are getting the sprite prints on collision?

[gentle bay]

yeah they stop being none once I touch it

[normal silo]

From the moved by 0 and correct 0, it seems to be getting stuck.

[gentle bay]

yeah

lemme print x

[normal silo]

This makes sense if you have no delta_x or delta_y, but are currently colliding.

(both delta_x and delta_y are zero)

[gentle bay]

for the sprite to not be colliding x would need to be 60

considering it moves in increments of 2 it should never be hitting x = 56 before it senses collision

...but that would appear to be what happens

ah

uh

im gonna try setting the rect pos after I move...

that uh....

that did it

it works

[normal silo]

Why have a separate px and py from the rect? Can just use the rect for the position.

Nothing to keep in sync.

[gentle bay]

I forgot that px and rectx dont update together

welp

works now

🙏

[normal silo]

When I see two values that look like they need to be synced up / kept up to date it reeks of bugs.

[gentle bay]

ill keep that in mind

thank you

[dawn quiver]

@fallow finch where does the pygames community hangout?

I found a few things online but its surprisingly hard to find them. Small community?

[fallow finch]

you're in the pygame-ce server already, the official one was removed

the real community is small but pygame is used by thousands of beginners everyday, the amount of bad code on stackoverflow kinda made a bad reputation to it

[dawn quiver]

Oh okay that's cool i just cant avoid to waste time

I have to get my family back

[unborn anchor]

anyone wanna team up and code a game? would be a small game ofc, I have no experience with coding a game, I'm more comfortable with java but wanna do this game in python

[rugged kiln]

Unity is prefarable.

[unborn anchor]

ok, I just didn't know if everyone here wanted to look at my code lol if they didn't wanna do the game

[rugged kiln]

waht code

[lyric arch]

Hello, with pygames how can i make my image scale longer?

[eternal vessel]

You can use the pygame.transform.scale(image, (width, height))

[fallow finch]

pygame.transform.scale or pygame.transform.smoothscale

[snow crane]

give some more ideas to add things in this game plss

[sly quail]

looks cool except the farm house

doesn't fit the perspective, does it

[snow crane]

yes

how can i make the trees swirl with wind

using aseprite

[sly quail]

and things to add in the game - definitely farming

[snow crane]

yes

it

is

[sly quail]

corps, to start with

[sly quail]

fix the house first

[snow crane]

okie

:),

lemme create a todo lists

first

@sly quail any other idea

?

[sly quail]

different buildings - for chickens, cows etc

[snow crane]

ok

[sly quail]

each will have a function like chickens with have eggs after a certain time

[frozen dawn]

What did you make this in?

[snow crane]

farm cozy little farm game

[cloud sedge]

fishing possibly? i noticed the game is on an island

[sly quail]

nice idea

[snow crane]

i wanna add it to

but idk how to do water animations

[frozen dawn]

I mean like what library, like arcade, pygame, etc?

[snow crane]

godot

i am using

[frozen dawn]

👍, ty

[snow crane]

you also wanna make right?

godot is good for beginners like me

@frozen dawn any more ideas?

if you have any

btw thanks for this guys

[sly quail]

traders you can trade to

[cloud sedge]

no problem. Good luck on your game

[sly quail]

like a trader trades gems for milk

[snow crane]

i think a shop to buy seeds sack etc

[snow crane]

hmm nice idea

[snow crane]

tysm

[young gate]

hey guys i designed this stickman animation myself, how does it look? (ignore background pls, it's a placeholder)

[fallow finch]

fix the house.png

wait, try to have consistency on all textures

[snow crane]

good 👍 up

[snow crane]

meanining

[fallow finch]

you use pixel art + house.png + isometric non-pixel art + resized pixel art

try to use one style

[snow crane]

?

[fallow finch]

graphic style

[snow crane]

ohh

[fallow finch]

when i say house.png i mean we can see it's a free image ripped from somewhere

[snow crane]

i am not a raphic asset maker

i found these assets free for use

[fallow finch]

that shade doesnt fit your isometric game at all

[fallow finch]

yea but try to use only assets of the same style or fix them

[snow crane]

so i am using

[snow crane]

ok

i will try

to create a pixel house

[fallow finch]

remove the shade

or fix it

[versed aurora]

honestly if you wanna do isometric the best way is to just make all the individual tiles and then put them together

And then modify a bit

https://youtu.be/YN7X0NfxjPc good video on the subject

[dense nebula]

I am making a zelda like game using pygame, if i wanted to introduce levels/stages how would i implement it

[versed aurora]

I forget if pygame has multiple scenes by default but you could write a level loader that would essentially take a list of objects and such and load them and instantiate the player

[cosmic wolf]

Hey i got a problem the platform in my game wont show on the screen. Could someone help me please? Here is my code: ```py
import pygame
import random
import sys

pygame.init()

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((400, 640))
icon = pygame.image.load('svarta_icon.png')

pygame.display.set_icon(icon)
pygame.display.set_caption("Svarta")

playerImg = pygame.image.load('svarta.png')
Svarta_pos = 180
Svarta_move = 0

bg_img = pygame.image.load('BG.png').convert()

PlatformImg = pygame.image.load('platform.png')
Platlist = []
Platmove = 0.0001
Platspawn = pygame.USEREVENT
pygame.time.set_timer(Platspawn, 1000)
random_plat_pos = 300

StartImg = pygame.image.load('Start.png')

GameOverImg = pygame.image.load('Death.png')

running = True

while running:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
sys.exit()
screen.blit(bg_img, (0, 0))
screen.blit(playerImg, (Svarta_pos, 20))
pygame.display.update()

keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()

if keys[pygame.K_a]:
    Svarta_move -= 0.0001
if keys[pygame.K_d]:
    Svarta_move += 0.0001
if keys[pygame.KEYDOWN]:
    Svarta_move = 0

Svarta_pos += Svarta_move

if Svarta_pos <= 0:
    Svarta_pos = 0
elif Svarta_pos >= 360:
    Svarta_pos = 360

screen.blit(PlatformImg, (random_plat_pos, 200))
random_plat_pos += Platmove

if playerImg == PlatformImg:
    screen.blit(GameOverImg)    ```

[raw falcon]

why are some of them 3d and some of them 2d

[brisk yew]

lol, that house looks very out of place

[fallow finch]

its not a house its a house.png

[stable tendon]

can someone help me with this error or direct me where to go to find answers. i am trying to convert my game file to an executable but I get this error. pygamezero is installed and working with vscode when I run the file through it but not when i make it an executable

[fleet valve]

Hello! I have to make a complex project for school (due next year) and my chosen topic was Scrabble. I know I could get away with it by just doing it all in python but I want to render graphics for it as well. I was told to use c# and unity for this (and for the function of the program) as well as JavaScript for online connections. But if I’m using c# and js for the program function and the graphics, what might Python be used for here?

Btw please do ping me in any replies

[fallow finch]

you don't have to use c#/unity to make a game, and you dont have to use different languages for a simple scrabble game

[fleet valve]

It’s not going to be simple

[fallow finch]

what about making it in 100% python

[fleet valve]

Online functionality to play with nearby friends, the graphics are something I’d like and afaik that’s complicated, I’m also considering multiple languages e.g. French and Spanish, and my teacher suggested adding user logins

[fleet valve]

I’d like to but can it do everything?

[fallow finch]

yes, with the amount of available libraries python can do everything

pygame for rendering and networking/sockets for online stuff, that's all you need

[fleet valve]

Oh I see okay

I wasn’t aware of that

Alright thank you

[fallow finch]

for multiple languages you can make json files with the strings for example

that's how minecraft does the thing, it's great if you don't have all the strings at first

[fleet valve]

Oh also is it hard to do machine learning w python?

[fallow finch]

tensorflow, pytorch

python is the best language for ai

[fleet valve]

There’s a paper about the world’s fastest scrabble program so imma make an AI w difficulty levels

[fleet valve]

Phew alright very nice

Cool

[fallow finch]

well the world's fastest program can't be made in python

[fleet valve]

Oh

[fallow finch]

but you can definitely make a good ai for a game

you don't have to make the fastest in the world

[fleet valve]

do you know which language it could be done in?

[fallow finch]

C, C++, Rust

if you want to make the fastest in the world

[fleet valve]

I know I don’t, but I hate making things easy for me

[fallow finch]

don't tho

especially if you want real ai, python is the best choice

[fleet valve]

Okey doke

[fallow finch]

you can make ai in algorithm for scrabble too

[fleet valve]

Wait the machine learning thing, is it resource intensive on windows?

My specs are generations old so I’m hoping it won’t be hard

[fallow finch]

it can be very intensive yea

[fleet valve]

Would it be typically less so in Linux?

[fallow finch]

i don't see why

you're making the game on linux or windows

[fleet valve]

Windows but I was told by a friend I can test it in linux

Not sure if that’s wise though

[fleet valve]

If I end up having time I’d make it for Mac as well

[fallow finch]

pygame has abstraction for all of them

just like unity

[fleet valve]

👍

Thank you very much!

[fallow finch]

no problem

[tall grotto]

hey giys could anyone help?
code: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/fominutova
Bug: the player's jump function is not working it just increases its Y level constantly until i stop the program could anyone solve this?
Using: Python,Pygame,Os,Math,VSCode

pls ping if anyone came to help

[fleet valve]

No clue but maybe self.fall_count = 1 instead of = 0 in def jump?

[tall grotto]

hmm

[fleet valve]

I’m just guessing tbh since I’ve not used pygame before

[tall grotto]

nope

[fleet valve]

@tall grotto do you change the gravity back after the jump? Also what if you do += 1 instead of just = 1

That’s all I can think of, sorry I can’t be of more help

[tall grotto]

dos'nt work Hasnu

[fallow finch]

Using Python Pygame, Os, Math, VSCode, Windows 10, Intel I7, 3.74lbs laptop, eating doritos

i don't see any code to check if the jump is finished

you're just increasing jump_count

[hollow shuttle]

how do i prevent pg.key.get_pressed() from repeating several times when i want it to only input once

[fallow finch]

your thinking is bad i guess

what are you trying to do

[hollow shuttle]

basically

i want to make a menu

and i use the function

to get the pressed keys

and i increment the index

for the selected option

like Settings play quit etc

but when i press it once it increments it multiple times

[fallow finch]

use a keydown event

so even if you press the key more than 1 frame it will increment once

if you really want to only use pressed keys only then you have to use a variable

[cold plover]

SQL is the most commonly used database language, so it can be used for almost any company that needs to store relational data. Queries within SQL are used to retrieve data from the database, but the queries vary in efficiency.

[marble jewel]

Just published my first tutorial on particles https://youtu.be/kK7wsnFD3Q0 Check it out and let me know what you think.

[versed aurora]

dang

Writing particles from scratch is also fun

I got surprisingly high performance with my particle system on my tech demo, even giving the particles collisions and such

[marble jewel]

the cool this about my system is that you can replace the particles image with just about anything you want, an actual image, a subsurface, any other pygame.draw output, etc with no performance loss, with the exception of much large surfaces that take longer to draw

[versed aurora]

ah nice
currently in my tests my particles are just using characters, since i do terminal stuff

[fallow finch]

yea, in my framework i was expecting making better particles in _sdl2 than in display

but display can really display a large amount

[marble jewel]

I haven't experimented with _sdl2 yet

[dawn quiver]

This is a very good map view, you can extend this map for more Space ? Thé game is multiplayers ? For your game you can add a horse, à think of if you add a horse world in your game you can a make a good vibes around the horse lovers, mp me if you want i can Give you my ideas

[fallow finch]

be sure to use a texture atlas if you do

[prime grail]

hey, I need to make a game in python that teaches people the basic concepts of programming in python, such as data types and variables, using and defining functions, loops (while and for), and the stuff like inputs and outputs. I need to use the pygame import and the game needs to be fun and educational with a decent amount of interaction and a simple but high quality UI, I plan to create a small quiz after each programming concept level.

For example the first level of my game i was think to make people learn about outputting text such as "Hello World" the first thing everyone learns when learning a new language. there would be a pop up wizard explaining how to output text and then the user will have 30-60 seconds to output as many words as they can in the given time (the words will be displayed on the top of the screen and change each time the user correctly outputs the right text). if you have a better idea than this I would love to hear it.

Does anyone have any ideas on what game I could make for the other levels such as datatypes and variables, defining and using functions, while and for loops, if & else & elif statements.

[normal silo]

I would start with terminal games without full graphics, then transition to graphics. It would go something like: hello world -> print an ascii image with multiple print statements -> get input and based on the input print one of N different messages (choice) -> same as before, but instead of having to re-run the application it loops back to asking the user which image they want to print (loops / exit condition / "infinite game loop" preparation) -> guessing game, there is a variable set to a number (do not introduce random yet) and the user must guess it (asks for choice, same infinite loop structure, exit condition is guessing correctly) -> same as before, but now it tells the user if their guess was too high or too low (more numeric comparison operators) -> create a list and print it (loops over lists), two versions, one that prints just the items, and one that prints the items and indices (in range and in enumerate) -> infinite loop again, asking the user for a message, appends the message to the list, prints the new list -> same as before, but they can also pop the last element -> intentionally pop when there are no items in the list and go through the error message with them, they key things are that they can tell the type of error and locate the line number that it happened on -> same as before, but an option is to display a single item from the list provided an index (again show errors with invalid indices) -> nested lists (manually created in code (e.g. 3x3)), print them (all on one line, and then each inner list on its own line (2D array)) -> infinite loop that lets the user set a value at (x, y) or (row, column) in the nested list -> more infinite loop things that keep more and more state (practice to keep track of program state) -> tic-tac-toe -> more games.

When the programs become complicated enough, have them learn functions by looking at parts of their code with repeated logic and moving that out into its own function ("semantic compression of the code").

(I would spend multiple passed on this plan to make it better, initial plan is always bad)

[tall grotto]

?

[hollow shuttle]

keys = pg.key.get_pressed()
        if keys[pg.K_DOWN] and self.currentIndex < 3: self.currentIndex += 1
        if keys[pg.K_UP] and self.currentIndex > 0: self.currentIndex += -1
``` how do i prevent this code from inputing for every single frame?

[snow crane]

someone help me in creating a house suited to this style i tried but failed plss

need help

and give me some more suggestions to improve game

[hollow shuttle]

is this your game?

[fallow finch]

probably their code

with a bunch of assets from the internet

[hollow shuttle]

idk i mean i don't think building a house requires coding

[fallow finch]

blitting

ah yea reminds me of yesterday, i was in some video game stuff shop and their storefront had 2 mario.pngs

the 2 first results when you search mario on google

[versed aurora]

If a key is pressed add it to a list, and then check if that key is in the list when you want to do those functions

Assuming you only want it to go once, you’d do that and then remove it if the key is released

[tall lava]

can anyone help me with this code im doing

im using trinket.io and its a snake game

and i have all theses error

could anyone help?

[blissful cape]

hey guys ! im tryna improve my python skills thru coding a game, where should i start

[quartz fossil]

Probably with installing an engine like pygame or panda3d, and figuring out what kind of game you even want to write. If it's a text adventure, print and input will suffice as engine. 🙂

Also for many simple board / card games.

Heck, I wrote Tic Tac Toe so abstractly yesterday that today I'm trying to get deeeep into search.

[dawn quiver]

I got a question, so for a visual novel game, can endings be programmed by accumulating a certain percentage? Or is it strictly the tree system? Like say you have a handful of choices and some choices are wrong some are right, depending on how many right choices you make your score is a certain percent out of 100% and you have to get the 100% in order to get the good ending.

I'm asking about this because if you program the tree system it looks like you'll have to separate the seperate dialogue into another tab to be called when you make a certain choice, but to keep loading huge chunks of the VN into another tab just because you pick a different choice seems like it might lag the game because of all the extra code, or am I not thinking about this correctly?

Novice programmer

[dawn quiver]

tutorials on yt, a few good youtubers out there helped it seem less intimidating for me

[quartz fossil]

That sounds more like you are using an existing framework to develop your game, and wonder whether it can support that functionality? Because if you're writing something yourself, you can make it work pretty much however you want to.

[dawn quiver]

no it would all be from scratch, I mean, unless you count that I'm doing this in renpy

[quartz fossil]

I do, because that turns the question from "Can Python do it?" into "Can renpy do it?", and I have zero idea about the latter.

[dawn quiver]

kk, thanks XDD

I'll find a renpy reddit

[quartz fossil]

...or write your own storytelling engine in Python. It's a topic that I want to cover as well.

[dawn quiver]

OvO;;; that sounds intimidating to someone who's just starting out and still learning the basics

[dawn quiver]

what do you want to cover it for?

a project, I'm gussing?

[quartz fossil]

I'm developing generalized game components for fun, hoping that eventually they'll congeal into actual games. And since stories are part of games, I do know a few approaches I'd like to implement and try out.

[dawn quiver]

What kind of game components?

[quartz fossil]

Right now search, a few days ago I polished up behavior trees, before that input abstraction for Panda3D, procgen of botanical trees is starting to work, I've written 80% of an ECS framework, and generic systems for it, ... Many things.

[dawn quiver]

Oh wow you've been busy!