game-development

[lunar venture]

Oh, I think you're talking about the character's center not being the same as the sprite's center

You need to offset the sprite somehow

Unless the hands being the center is fine by you

[astral pike]

The cube button right to the close button

[mellow imp]

You mean the maximize window ? Pm me ill show you the solution

[shrewd python]

So i found a tileset id like to use for my map in pygame
but im having an issue finding out the px size i need
How do i know what i need exactly?
I want the game to be as if its zoomed in and centered around the player character
And when the character moves the whole map moves

[brisk yew]

your art resolution should be constant across all assets is really the only thing you need to care about for the most part, especially for smaller sizes

[hexed hound]

btw
if anyone is looking for an assistant in pygame
or a person who knows pygame and can work in your project
I am all in.
I have been learning pygame for like last 5 months and want to test/check my practical skills
it will benefit me too.

[vagrant saddle]

well if you want to help pygbag from pygame-ce/pygame-web community, the new multiplayer module would need a generic lobby really irc like where rooms are games, and user are players. in a split screen where the right part would be game details , player details or matchmaking with private chat for a selected game

the really tricky part is to make that fit on 1024x600 and still being readable and touch aware

[honest drift]

Thinking name the cyberpunk top down shooter gamee I'm making for theme: the unknown, "spag bol" after the expert way I've constructed everything

I'm crying deep inside my soul

well it didn't embed ....

[honest drift]

https://youtu.be/PlSHgJ6J3js

FUK ¬¬

[honest drift]

yo anyone got experience with pygbag?

[vagrant saddle]

me maybe

[honest drift]

what have you made with it?

[vagrant saddle]

various collections like pygame-ce and Panda3D and some wasm port of modules

[raven kernel]

he made it

[vagrant saddle]

yes also that 😄

also some weird experiments like driving a robot arm from a webpage with camera feedback

[honest drift]

oh shit, sorry. I didn't realise

ahahahahahahahah

nice one

[honest drift]

so sorry, do you mind me asking some novice questions. I'm trying to intergrate it with this dumb game I've been working on but the countdown keeps closing the app

[vagrant saddle]

did you already convert your main loop to async ?

[honest drift]

I copied the code from this address: https://pypi.org/project/pygbag/

[honest drift]

sorry forgot the reply

[vagrant saddle]

in that one when countdown reaches 0 , return is called : that force exits the main async loop

[honest drift]

ahh thanks, I deleted that and it worked xD I can be dumb at times

[honest drift]

forgive me, one last thing. I know it must be iritating explaining your product to a noob but I really appreicate you taking the time to help me. I'm trying to build in command but its not compiling to HTML

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/VNSQ

[vagrant saddle]

--html is for making experimental pygame-scripts just remove that from cmdline

[honest drift]

aahhh okay

[vagrant saddle]

for itch you want --archive and for github pages --build but first test locally without any special flags

[honest drift]

awsome, thank you. sorry found the documentation a little confusing. I have been up since 3am coding though, so my brain is jelly xD

[vagrant saddle]

well you're welcome to edit the confusing portions

but after a good sleep of course 🤣

[honest drift]

thanks, I can do that if you want. I have a good knack for explaining complicated things in simplier language

been stuck on this for 5 mins?

[vagrant saddle]

where did you find 127.0.0.1 ?

[honest drift]

cmd

[vagrant saddle]

no i mean where did you read it, i thought i've fixed all docs to clearly mention localhost

[honest drift]

1 sec

[vagrant saddle]

normal use : http://localhost:8000 and debug mode with xterm http://localhost:8000?-i

[vagrant saddle]

hmmm yeah can be confusing

but url is localhost indeed

[honest drift]

ahhh that debug is good feeature

yeah

localhost worked better but

I think this is a fuck up on my part

[vagrant saddle]

yeah read more documentation because you are porting a windows source code to posix

\ => / and use relative path only, no BMP no WAV but png/ogg

porting linux or mac is more straightforward

[honest drift]

yeah no, I used the wwrong symbol in my code. suprised it ran at all xD

sorry, again I'm out of it. forgive me if I'm being a nusiance

[vagrant saddle]

just take your time, also in some cases it can be very hard to port sync code to web ( windows or other the same) especially if you have nested pygame.display.update() (or flip) loops

[honest drift]

my code is spagette code, I think its working fine though. I like that it will still compile in VSC and HTML. I havee some bugs in my code that I need to iron out but pygbag works fine. THANK YOU!!! so much for helping me out xD

[vagrant saddle]

yw

[honest drift]

I can send you my code, if you want though but it is disgusting xD I don't expect you to go through it at all but I thought I'd offer since you've helped me alot

[vagrant saddle]

put it on itch and drop the link here

[honest drift]

Well it's for a gamejam on itch, which ends in 3 days. I kinda don't want to upload just yet but I'll send you a link when finished and polished somewhat

[vagrant saddle]

sure

[honest drift]

Thanks again man

[brisk yew]

isn't that the same thing? 127.0.0.1 and localhost or is that like platform-dependent or sth?

[vagrant saddle]

for the browser only /localhost/ in the url bar server part unlock secured features, and there's a lot of them

[prisma frost]

Hi ! I am currently working on a project with the pygame library. I have to create a replica of a game called antivirus(https://www.smartgames.eu/uk/try-smartgames-online/one-player-games/anti-virus). I have a major issue, the assests with the piece of the game are not well edited so the hitbox is too large. Since it's a png image with transparent background i didn't achieve to edited it. So here my question, is there a way to make simple custom hitboxes ? Or do you have an easy way to edit those images ? Or there is another way ? (I am relative beginner with this library btw) (code https://pastebin.com/fTeCdw8S) (feel free to ping when you answer me)

[frank kiln]

can you interact with fonts in pygame? say like you click it and then it disappears and the game will proceed? or does it have to be a sprite/actor? and can you do the same with backhrounds?

[brisk yew]

you have to implement that yourself, but it's possible, yeah

and yeah, it will be a sprite then, a button in this case ig

[brisk yew]

you can just use like any image editor to just edit those images, I'd suggest paint.net (for it's simplicity and effectiveness), but there's a ton of others out there

[prisma frost]

I know but cant find a way to remove the invisible background of the png pictures

[brisk yew]

you just need to crop the image

[prisma frost]

Paint.Net can do that ?

[brisk yew]

yeah

it's simple, you just select the area you want to keep, then you click on the crop button and done

[prisma frost]

Otherwise, can i get rid of the rectangular hitboxes ?

[prisma frost]

Thanks !

[brisk yew]

there's surf.get_bounding_rect

but rn I'm too lazy to explain what to do with it, so...

mby later

[prisma frost]

read the docs ?

[brisk yew]

sure, but it may not help that much, but mby you can figure it out
you just will need to have two separate positions/rects basically, one for the drawing position and the other for collisions and such

and like you need to keep that offset there and if the bounding rect between images changes then, uhh...

fun times, it'd probably be easier to just crop those images, just usually you crop them such that they are all the same size btw

[prisma frost]

Thanks a lot, can i come back to you when my modification will be finished ?

[brisk yew]

you can just ask the question here or join the pygame community discord server and ask it there in a help forum channel, mby someone else can help you at that time

[prisma frost]

Ok thanks !

[dawn quiver]

Where do I get started with pygame?

Like a course

[brisk yew]

youtube
search for Clear Code and/or DaFluffyPotato and/or Coding With Russ

[dawn quiver]

Got it

[strange grove]

whats the best way to draw a board you can move around in python? this is what i got rn and i shift the player by the 2d list coords I am SURE there is a better way lol

board = [[wall*16],
         [wall*1, bush*13, player, wall*1],
         [wall*1, bush*14, wall*1],
         [wall*1, bush*14, wall*1],
         [wall*1, bush*14, wall*1],
         [wall*1, bush*14, wall*1],
         [wall*1, bush*14, wall*1],
         [wall*16]]```

*no pygame or tkinter this is terminal

or i can get creative

idk

[brisk yew]

how much am I getting paidddd for that? also breaking a rule, aren't you?

!rules 9

[frank field]

Rules

9. Do not offer or ask for paid work of any kind.

[brisk yew]

I'm not asking for work, just teasing them... 😐

[hot kernel]

this seems like the right place for this so anyway im new to coding and ive been trying to make a Rock Paper Scissor game and i already created one but i typed each scenario and i tried to do it with just three win/lose/tie and i also wanted it to display what you and the computer played in the message and the score i kept learning and learned how to use lists and i made it work with some other cool stuff my brother helped me with https://paste.pythondiscord.com/MOHQ

[honest drift]

@vagrant saddle Hey man. Sorry to bother you. Ermm with compiling packages how flexible is pygbag? Can I add third party gui menu imports and will they compile html with pygame or is there compatibility issues???

[vagrant saddle]

i did not test lot of gui yet but you should try pygame_gui it has currently the best pygame-ce support

[honest drift]

Okay sure. Thank you. Also if there's any docs you want me to look at and see if I can make simpler feel free to message me

[vagrant saddle]

there's also the SDL2+cpython port of https://sim.lvgl.io/v7/micropython/ports/javascript/bundle_out/index.html but not sure it is really easy to handle in a pygame context

[honest drift]

Okay I'll have a look, currently on a endorphin + transmitter high from rejoining gym, brain is scrambled rn xD

[vagrant saddle]

GUI and network are lacking a lot of documentation and starter samples

[honest drift]

Awesome, I'm strong with those

Just send what ya got and I'll look at it and write stuff on it. However most of my focus is gonna be on the gamejam ending Sunday so I'll scan it now but will properly do some stuff with it later

[honest drift]

https://youtu.be/p8rPlpVcY30

I know its basic atm

adding background and movement

any ideas/criticisms?

[mellow imp]

Looking for people to join my team for this game jam, PM if interested: https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2023

[shrewd python]

So I used the library pytmx to load my tileMap.tmx.

I have four different layers, when printing out print(game_map.layers) it says: [<TiledTileLayer[2]: "Base">, <TiledTileLayer[4]: "Level 2">, <TiledTileLayer[3]: "Walls">, <TiledTileLayer[5]: "properties">] The Walls and properties are the layers I want to collide with my character.

Now the question is, how should i proceed from here ?
I read somewhere that im supposed to retrieve data from the layers and create objects and then use rect() to collide with my character. Is this true and is this efficient?

[modest token]

For walls have your surface render. Use something like Entity class which inherit s Sprite.
And either you can use sprite collide any method or what I use is check if player position is inside tile sprite rect

I will post a better answer later from computer tag me when You come onlinee

def get_blocking_tile(self, tile_x: int, tile_y: int) -> Optional[Tile]:
        """
        Get the Tile from the 'Collisions' layer that would block movement at the given tile coordinates.
        :param tile_x: Tile X coordinate
        :param tile_y: Tile Y coordinate
        :return: The blocking Tile, or None if there is no blocking Tile.
        """
        collisions_layer = self.tiledmap.get_layer_by_name('Collisions')
        for tile in collisions_layer.tiles():
            if tile[0] == tile_x and tile[1] == tile_y:
                return tile
        return None

[modest token]

Will you be using pygame ?

[brisk yew]

cool stuff
btw, list is not the data structure to use for this, use dictionaries

and why are you using lists for player and pc?

[pine plinth]

some cool stack state machine stuff :)

[brisk yew]

it's quite unique actually

never seen anyone implement RPS like that 😁

[potent pebble]

Can someone tell me here how i can create a normal python game and what librarys to use?

[plain kraken]

what kind of games?
number guesser (needs random)
2d games(tic-tac-toe --needs pygame)

or much more

[potent pebble]

well idk i just learning python and i really confused how i can combination all functions to can create game

[plain kraken]

thier is youtube video of freecodecamp of nearly 5 hours which will teach you basic of python with making games

[plain kraken]

you should watch that

[potent pebble]

okay ty

[hot kernel]

thanks
i use list for player and pc because i need to know what the numbers are to calculate who won and what they chose so i can print it at the end so basically need a variable with two meaning and i didnt learn dictionaries yet so ye

[brisk yew]

you could just use two variables for each

[hot kernel]

how would i do that?

[dawn quiver]

Where do I get started ( course video)

[brisk yew]

just have like a player_choice and a player_score, same for the enemy

[celest osprey]

if i run this code then my character does not move but still dissapears after 7 seconds.
code: def rotate(self):
# calculate distance to next waypoint
dist = self.target - self.pos
# use distance to calculate angle
self.angle = math.degrees(math.atan2(-dist[1], dist[0]))
# rotate image and update rectangle
self.image = pg.transform.rotate(self.original_image, self.angle)
self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
self.rect.center = self.pos

[hot kernel]

i still dont understand how that would work would you be able to just do it and show it to me if its okay of course

[dawn quiver]

Bump

[pine plinth]

!res and check pins

[frank field]

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[dawn quiver]

A tutorial compatible with mobile cuz my pc broken

[honest drift]

@vagrant saddle hey are you about?

[vagrant saddle]

i'm around

you should not need to restart the game loop, do you use gamestates (finite state machine) ?

[honest drift]

I know what a finite state machine is but I haven't set anything up for it

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

[vagrant saddle]

this one is close to textbook for game states https://github.com/pmp-p/pygame-breakout-wasm/tree/main

[honest drift]

screw it, its a shit game with shit code. I'm just gonna freeze lock it on stats

Sorry just stressed out and I've got 10 hours left xD

[steady zenith]

Can anyone become a strong game developer only using python?

[vital saddle]

Not strong but you can become one for sure. You may become a strong one if u use something like pyopengl and learn how everything works using that but I don't know for sure. But for most of the game dev companies: they don't use python. They almost always use c++

[steady zenith]

@vital saddle is just enough

[vital saddle]

What

[steady zenith]

@vital saddle is c++ just enough to become a strong game developer

[vital saddle]

Nothing is enough to become a strong game dev. It's up to you and your skills and your dedication.

[steady zenith]

Got it

@vital saddle I believe we need advance c++ for game dev

[vital saddle]

No that's not needed. Like I said python is also a choice. It's up to your skills and dedication. If the dedication sucks, then you're not gonna become a good game dev.

[steady zenith]

@vital saddle got it

[brisk yew]

it's gonna be a pain to write code on mobile btw
but just pick any pygame(-ce) tutorial from yt and you're set (sort of)
I'd suggest Clear Code, DaFluffyPotato or Coding With Russ

[neat blade]

Hey guys

[meager plover]

yes heys whats up

[neat blade]

I'm new to coding so I'm think about learning python first then wanna go to c++ eventually because I heard it's easier to learn how to code overall should I continue or just dive into learning c++

And plus for school I'm gonna go for a cybersecurity job

But I wanna make games as a hobby

And apparently pygame isn't good as c++

[meager plover]

its back to your chuice dude every code lang its good, but sometime every coders have a choice to love and pick

[neat blade]

It's a matter of which ome to learn first one for skl and my potential job vs as a hobby

[meager plover]

i canot give you a suggest but if you new begining you can check every thread on here. to learn more about python

[neat blade]

Ok

Ig I'll continued to start off with python

I already started I'm learning bout functions

[meager plover]

gl n have fun with your code...

[neat blade]

Thx

[meager plover]

ywlcm

[neat blade]

I kinda hard to stay motivated tho ngl

But I think to learn on n off

Try*

[meager plover]

i was learning pygame about 1 years and its getting clear and good, this module is realy hard if you are not python programer. and iam agre about dedication needed.

could be now i can create 2D game with fun that i was create. i gonna share my work for your referens of using pygame, when finish.

[neat blade]

Okay appreciate that

[vital saddle]

Yeah I know. I started the same way 3 years ago. No python experience and pygame. It was really hard because I didn't understand a thing that was happening in the tutorial.

[meager plover]

i have a basic about python when i try to learn more deep about pygame its realy core enought to create game for what you want.
and you should learn about pyinstaller to test your game in other computer and yea you was create a game cool stuff

i was learning about game platformer jump 2D and its cool, how about you?

[vagrant saddle]

for testing in other computers including mobile you can use pygame-ce WebAssembly and host the game on itch or github pages. No need to install anything on device url or qrcode is just what you need

[meager plover]

iamnot realy learn about pygame-ce, how its work is that for, but iam gonna try it someday, ok ty

[vital saddle]

I was learning about 2d platformer style shooter

[vital saddle]

Oh I learned like almost all python concepts, how to use things and how things work. After that almost every programming language or game engine was easy for me

[vagrant saddle]

you don't need to learn it or install it, if your pygame code is valid it will run on web (the packager take care of picking pygame-ce at runtime )

[meager plover]

ohk so its just like that, so i just copy pasted my code
ok i got it, iam gonna try it.

[meager plover]

waw its cool iam still strugling using pymath if i create 2d shoter like that can i see your sample game that you was create ? its gonna be cool

[vital saddle]

There is no real math there actually

Lol

But I don't have the example anymore

I didn't know what git was at the time and the files are stuck om my old laptop which has a fried gpu

[meager plover]

is the controler using mouse shoter need a direction 360

[meager plover]

ahk i think you have a sample that game could be good to see it

i gonna share my work on you wanna see it ?

[vital saddle]

No it's not using the mouse at all

[vital saddle]

Uhmm I have a game engine that's built on python and pygame idk if that will help

[meager plover]

ohk ok soo that game is only using straigh shoting bullet isn it?

[meager plover]

no i just need to see a game play, not a code you create

[vital saddle]

Yws

[vital saddle]

Oooh

Sorry I don't have it anymore

I can't recover those files due to the GPU being fried and it can't boot

[meager plover]

my work sample almost done, now i gonna to set a sound on it, and it gonna be a cool game

[vital saddle]

Wow that looks really cool! I do recommend creating a camera and connecting it to the player because it's a little hard to see the player and you see the world but it's up to you. With a camera it would be a little better.

[meager plover]

yeah its still devlop.....not ready yet to play. it still alot of work. i hope this progress will done and you can play it and tasted how smoth a game is this on your pc.

😅

[neat blade]

That's my plan rn

[vital saddle]

Cool

[dawn quiver]

Ok

[vital saddle]

I'm waiting for it!

[meager plover]

sure i realy happy for this day, finaly i can create idle system for character

[grand apex]

What libraries could be used as an alternative to pygame?

[proper peak]

Unless you count pygame-ce - arcade, I guess, maybe pyglet.

[brisk yew]

Panda3D and Ursina too

[vital saddle]

Cool

[grand apex]

Thanks, this might seem like a strange question, but, if you had to say, which library would you have an easier time coding a ray-casting engine in?

[vagrant saddle]

i guess none and use a shading lang on gpu for that https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ttyXRR but pygame is ok too https://itch.io/queue/c/2563651/pygame-wasm?game_id=2036706

[brisk yew]

raycasting is primarily a ton of math, so... if possible use the DDA algorithm and utilize numba for speed or just write the thing in C and make it a Python extension or just use a library someone else wrote in C

[normal silo]

Taichi.

[marble jewel]

Isometria Devlog 33 - Gobby Gear, Line of Sight, Biome Rework, Etc! - Made with Pygame and Python - https://youtu.be/32JiOUNlckY

[river flint]

How do I make minecraft mods with python

[tranquil girder]

What did you try?

[quartz fossil]

Isn't Minecraft Java territory?

[brisk yew]

you can do something with Python in it, not sure if mods, but something

[vagrant saddle]

if mods are in java jython could probably do it but it is py2 😦

[ebon ether]

I was learning on pygame, the file worked perfectly but I opened it today and it throw errors on me saying that "the path doesn't exist" although I'm sure that the path is there.

I made the font None and now it throws an error on images.

[brisk yew]

the issue is probably that the path is incorrect relative to the cwd

[ebon ether]

I'm sure that the path is correct, but how can I fix the problem?

[brisk yew]

I'm sure that the code knows better
can you send like an ss?

what about vc?

[ebon ether]

okay, but this account is from my laptop so the microphone is trash, I have to talk through my phone and share from my laptop screen

[brisk yew]

eh, it's probably gonna be quick anyway

[ebon ether]

alright

[brisk yew]

proceeds to debug for an hour

(#751592231726481530)

[ebon ether]

give me a minute

[brisk yew]

@ebon ether can you like send that error you're getting?

[ebon ether]

okay

pygame 2.5.2 (SDL 2.28.3, Python 3.11.5)
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "d:\Education\Python\py.game\Blade Runner 2049.py", line 8, in <module>
    test_font = pygame.font.Font('../font/horror_korpus/fonti.otf', 50)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: No file '../font/horror_korpus/fonti.otf' found in working directory 'D:\Education\Python'.```

I need 50 messages I guess

no hold on

no I can't talk because discord settings and I can't share screen

how do I give you the code?

from sys import exit

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800,400))
pygame.display.set_caption('Blade Runner 2049')
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
test_font = pygame.font.Font('../font/horror_korpus/fonti.otf', 50)

sky_surface = pygame.image.load('../graphics/wallpaper game.png')
ground_surface = pygame.image.load('../graphics/ground.png')
text_surface = test_font.render('Man', False, 'Black')

while True:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            exit()
            
    screen.blit(sky_surface, (0,0))
    screen.blit(ground_surface, (0,300))
    screen.blit(text_surface, (300, 50))

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

[brisk yew]

what is the absolute path to your assets?

[ebon ether]

give me a moment

[brisk yew]

and did you mby mean to use a single .

[ebon ether]

D:\Education\Python\py.game this is the path to all files, including the code,

[ebon ether]

I searched how can I put the asset without using writing the whole path, this is what came up and I used it and it worked

[brisk yew]

correct me if I'm wrong but is the path to the font this
D:/Education/Python/py.game/font/horror_korpus/fonti.otf
or this
D:/Education/Python/font/horror_korpus/fonti.otf

[ebon ether]

this is the whole path for the font D:\Education\Python\py.game\font

[brisk yew]

is your code located in a directory inside py.game?

[ebon ether]

and the horror horror korpus is inside the path, and fontie is inside it

[ebon ether]

what do you mean?

oh yeah

D:\Education\Python\py.game\Blade Runner 2049

[brisk yew]

so basically the path is relative to the cwd, it's telling you what your cwd is here
your cwd should be the directory with your code
you should cd to that then

[brisk yew]

in the terminal do
cd "D:\Education\Python\py.game\Blade Runner 2049"

and then run your Python code again

[ebon ether]

it won't write the directory in the terminal, I even tried to press tab multiple times

it's like it isn't there

[brisk yew]

wha

are you using vsc?

[ebon ether]

yes, vscodium

[brisk yew]

and you have like the terminal there and you can't type anything in it?

[ebon ether]

I can type, but it wont type the file Blade Runner 2049 despit being there

[brisk yew]

wait, it's a file

ok, your paths should only have a single leading .

[ebon ether]

let me try that

still it didn't work

[brisk yew]

same error?

did you save the file?

[ebon ether]

Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "d:\Education\Python\py.game\Blade Runner 2049.py", line 8, in <module>
    test_font = pygame.font.Font('./font/horror_korpus/fonti.otf', 50)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: No file './font/horror_korpus/fonti.otf' found in working directory 'D:\Education\Python'.```

yes I did

[brisk yew]

wait, why is the cwd that

can you run it from ps

[ebon ether]

ps?

[brisk yew]

python "Blade Runner 2049.py"

(also you kinda shouldn't have spaces in file names)

[ebon ether]

it worked

but how?

[brisk yew]

I'm guessing this has to do with your project config

when you click on the green arrow or wherever (f5 mby), it just sets the cwd as your project dir during that

idk

[ebon ether]

and how to fix it so that I can run it from vscodium?

instead of writing python everytime?

[brisk yew]

I have like no clue, you're gonna have to google around for how to config what the green arrow or whatever does exactly

[ebon ether]

man

alright, thank you for your help 🌹

hold on

the arrow worked

what?!

programming is really a magic

[brisk yew]

crazy

[potent pebble]

Someone know is for start create a game i need a folder for that game and than to use import pygame?

[quartz fossil]

You speak words and they make things happen; Yes, that's a kind of magic.

...and making a game is literally to create a world.

[quasi hull]

in order to import pygame you first need to install it using pip commands

as it's not included with python like libraries such as random, math, os, etc...

[runic prism]

Hello folks, i created a board game in unity with backend in nodejs, now i want to create bots that can think for themselves. For that where should i start my research i also have experience in python, Suggest me best practice. Thanks!

[potent pebble]

oh okay,ty

[brisk yew]

!rules 9 btw

[frank field]

Rules

9. Do not offer or ask for paid work of any kind.

[meager plover]

sry i cant answear about it, but could be is starting from reading about introduction of pygame and read some doc basic then got to about a game you need, it was a difrent state coding, on pygame and unity. but i think the best practice is trying some tutorial game from pygame so you will understand how it works...

[quartz fossil]

Graph search. You'll want to know about transposition tables, backpropagation, and minimax. If you want to be cutting edge, use depth-first search with iterative deepening.

If you're abstract about it, you can throw enough modularity in there for economics students to game theory out their games for decades to come.

[little apex]

how do you organize you're files when exporting a game?

[meager plover]

exporting a game you mean a file game ? like a code?
it back to your code

iam usually using import myfile as mf

[mortal rock]

hi?

[meager plover]

yes can i help you ?

[mortal rock]

ok

I can't send a text document

come to dm

[meager plover]

you can pasted your code here

[mortal rock]

My line of code is too long

[meager plover]

wew realy so you dm to me to see your code?

[mortal rock]

ok

[meager plover]

what is the problem of pygame you was create ?

or you just want to make some move on your game,that your code didnt get that ?

you better share on here so anyone who know will give help result

[soft lion]

Hi. I'm new to Pygame. I'm wondering how can u reduce the speed of something to less than 60px per second when u set clock.tick(60). Is there any technique?

[meager plover]

you mean frame rate..?
iam just reduce that clock.tick(),
becouse iam using 2D Game graphic.
idk if using 3D i dont wanna try i afraid to my pc.

iam alway using 60 fps for my game that i was create...idk if other, difrent game dev always difren

[soft lion]

I have a enemy foo that has a speed of 1px. So, if the clock is 60, he moves 60px per second. I was wondering how can you reduce his speed to lets say, 30px per second.

[pine plinth]

move it 0.5px per frame?

[soft lion]

i think u cant use floats. I just tried, and still get 60px per second.

[brisk yew]

you can

obviously

there's like no reason you wouldn't be able to

[soft lion]

I didnt get any error by using floats, but < 0.5 the foo doesnt move, and > 0.5 he keeps 60px per second.

[pine plinth]

i guess you are changing position on screen that gets rounded, then reading it again and adding 0.5 to it

consider using variable for position

[meager plover]

[dawn quiver]

hi when developing game engine is it a strict rule to make draw command in one place?

in context of pygame blit() method

especially when making debugging functionality sometimes i need to make blit command out of game draw method

[pine plinth]

no, its fine to blit wherever you want

refreshing screen in several places feels odd, but blitting is ok

in game engine you have to blit in lots of places to draw different things (bg, objects, ui, debug things, ...)

[pearl totem]

https://dribbble.com/shots/23027593-Migmig?utm_source=Clipboard_Shot&utm_campaign=homorockiens&utm_content=Migmig&utm_medium=Social_Share&utm_source=Clipboard_Shot&utm_campaign=homorockiens&utm_content=Migmig&utm_medium=Social_Share

[little apex]

I just mean like sharing it

[dense thistle]

Am a professional resume writer and expertise in job search and LinkedIn optimization that will land you to your dream job

[meager plover]

iam usualy using pyinstaller for share my game offline so anyone can install it on pc, some people using online mode but i never try n idk to use it.

like running a game in the browser

[vagrant saddle]

to share python games online ( made upon pygame-ce, panda3d ... ) you may want to try pygbag and you can find lot of examples on github including how to publish/host game from a CI (free)

[vital saddle]

Wtf is this ad dude 💀

[meager plover]

😂 idk its looks like ads discord version could be....

[vital saddle]

😂

[wild mirage]

[prisma frost]

Hello everyone ! I am working on a board game. My issue is that i need the pink and red piece to have a smaller hitbox so they can pas through the two white block. To run hitboxes I am actually using Rect and collide list ? Any idea of another way to process the hitboxes ?

[quartz fossil]

Is there a sphere and/or capsule available?

[brisk yew]

soon a circle might become available

for now tho, a smaller rect should suffice

although you can ofc do circle-circle collisions yourself

and/or masks

[limber veldt]

Just implementing spawn patterns, totally a work in progress

The paths themselves may yet be tweaked but the placeholders are working, I can fine tune the content after the functionaility

[round obsidian]

WOW, that's forensically good

You saw my Robotron, so I'm deeply impressed

[limber veldt]

Right on, and it was too impressive, thanks!

[round obsidian]

Some brave soul had dumped the ROM and written a detailed disassembly of the game, describing its behaviors. So I used that as a guide to recreating it

[limber veldt]

I followed a C++ tutorial for some of the logic

Of course, logic is logic, regardless of language

[round obsidian]

exactly!

[limber veldt]

My recent struggle was those double file paths. I used a path_runner instead of sending the enemies directly along the path, they are now constrained to a path runner

This way the rank stays aligned as if one path was longer or shorter than the other in order to send two enemies along two paths, the enemies fall out of rank on the turns

[round obsidian]

I can only imagine what this was like in assembly. Just hard-coded I guess

[limber veldt]

Projecting 90 degreess of direction is easy though

Oh man

I did Defender

And my guide or at least some source of info was its disassembly

And it wa amazing

[round obsidian]

when I was reading about games like Asteroids or Battle Zone or Tempest, they basically precomputed all the vectors for the game on a PDP

[limber veldt]

Absiluty fucking astonishing

They pushed pixels directly to the screen ram

I love vectors, now that I pretty well know how to use them, I didn't until about three years ago, I love them, this is the magic that made those old games, and even new games, work

[limber veldt]

I'm not sure collisions are even necessary for a board game, it's a grid right? It can be represented by a 2d list and that populated with objects with attributes describing what is in them

[dawn quiver]

Hi i have questions

If I wanted to start creating games without knowing programming, where would I start?

?

[cosmic vale]

Then start with learning how to program

[sharp bison]

I want to change the textures of a game but I don't know how

[vital saddle]

Gdevelop, or learn to program and then learn pygame

[dawn quiver]

what i study game development or web development

[quartz fossil]

...for games? Seems like an obvious choice.

[meager plover]

what kind of engine or module game you use ?

[meager plover]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hVuIgq-MQAIlH8R8C5T1Jl1wqtsdRnFx/view?usp=sharing

could be you wanna try my game that i was create.. i hope it working well

[vital saddle]

i can try it in a hour, i will tag you when i will be trying

[meager plover]

thankyou for that becarefull enjoy that game and have fun 😂

[vital saddle]

yes sir 🫡

[meager plover]

if the game not playing well just tell me bro .thankyou

[quartz fossil]

There's no .py file at all, and nothing marked as executable.

[vital saddle]

Could you maybe send in a other format instead of rar? I'm on mac so I can't unzip it

[meager plover]

there was popplatform.exe

[meager plover]

ok wait a minute

[quartz fossil]

Ah, there it is. Not marked as executable, though. I'll check whether I can run it on wine.

[meager plover]

iwas extract in my pc and it was working but idk if other pc could be working well or didn.

[quartz fossil]

I assume your PC is running Windows though. 😛

[meager plover]

yes it was dude

iam using a windows10

[quartz fossil]

$ wine ./popplatform/popplatform.exe
001f:err:xrandr:xrandr12_init_modes Failed to get primary CRTC info.
000d:err:xrandr:xrandr12_init_modes Failed to get primary CRTC info.
002d:err:xrandr:xrandr12_init_modes Failed to get primary CRTC info.
pygame 2.5.1 (SDL 2.28.2, Python 3.11.5)
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "popplatform.py", line 26, in <module>
pygame.error: No displays available
[44] Failed to execute script 'popplatform' due to unhandled exception!

[meager plover]

ok wait i gonna try not to compresed to much a file

[sharp bison]

Not sure about either, I got the game on steam, "Last Horizon"

[meager plover]

https://upfiles.com/Vxb1

[meager plover]

Horible

[sharp bison]

What

What's horrible

[meager plover]

you you wanna change a texture i just ask what kind engine do you use becouse python have many module game engine so we dont know to correctly about to change

[sharp bison]

Well I came here because I figured you guys would know the most about file types

[meager plover]

ohk so the file type you mean is create a texture on game isnt it ? is that 2D or 3D object?
i realy dont know about 3D iam sry

[sharp bison]

It's a sprite

2D

But I don't know where the file that holds the sprite

My best lead is the dll file it has

[meager plover]

ohk 2D ok let me now if you want a using 2D texture i gonna create some trick for you but it gonna alot work, if you want to use texture on 2D mix the alpha. and blend into transparancy.
you can use blit(yourfile,(yourpos.x,yourpos.y))

and many technic in somewhere for create a good visual 2D iam not an expert

[sharp bison]

The game is finished, it's not mine, and it should just be a png or something I can replace

But I don't know where this png is stored

[meager plover]

heks why you want to replace it ?
if game was made it will be encrypted you cant edited that game.
to hide a a good owrk on coding gamedev.

work*

[sharp bison]

Well at the same time, there are games that I can get the files out of because they're sitting out in the open

[meager plover]

yea it was difrent game dev some game can replacing like that some it not

[wind juniper]

the start game itself does not work

[meager plover]

that game is only for training stage

if i doing startgame alone i gonna be dying for everyday doing solo game dev that game

becouse design a level stage is not easy bro

[wind juniper]

the level fills the entire screen, player centred camera would be better

[wind juniper]

i agree

[meager plover]

yea i gonna do that when start game was ready yet to play

i was thinking about how this game i more chalanging and lot of fun

and the answear is i cant doing game dev solo

so i just check my progress on my coding iam using that asett from itch.io

and pygame work well game smoth and i love it

if i gonna continue this game tobe a real COMERCIAL GAME

[wind juniper]

ooo cool cool

[meager plover]

it will bring many worker

[wind juniper]

good luck it has very good potential

[meager plover]

yea but costing time and money bro, i cant move it alone.

i just trying my code to create a game someday could be

i gonna create a real stage platformer....

ijust create 1 stage oon training stage and it so hurt full damn not again i wont to work again

thankyou for try my game

.thanks it was work well. my software game... finaly haha

[vital saddle]

I have two questions: What did you use to package this and I cant run it because im on mac

nevermind its running

@meager plover what are the controlls? i have new game selected but i dont know what the key is to start it

[meager plover]

key is w,a,s,d for move left and right for button

[vital saddle]

And how to select new game in the menu? Maybe this is a wine issue idk

[meager plover]

this game is only for training stage, iam not create a game full

[vital saddle]

Huh I tried to run it then a menu came up and I wanted to click on new game but it didn't work

[meager plover]

yea it wasn, its only training stage , start game and continue its not ready yet

[vital saddle]

Oh okay

[meager plover]

iam gonna, pending that game progress. and try create another cool game from good asset that i was found.

[dawn quiver]

Is pygame good for game development

[vagrant saddle]

probably https://itch.io/c/2563651/pygame-wasm

[dawn quiver]

Thx

[dawn quiver]

can godot run python codes ?

[quartz fossil]

AFAIK Godot uses its own Python-like language. If you want to do 3D stuff with Python, I recommend Panda3D. pygame is, as far as I have heard, good for doing 2D stuff in Python.

[brisk yew]

gdscript is already pretty similar to Python, so just mby learn that...

[dawn quiver]

hiu

i have question

[brisk yew]

shoot

[thick carbon]

hey anyone have like a basis code I could borrow for a basic crazy taxi type game?

[fallow finch]

i have a weird animation

in menu

and no key appears to work to select one of the things

[marble jewel]

Isometria Devlog 34 - Chat Window, In Game Music, Demo Soon! - Made with Pygame and Python - https://youtu.be/wqKff6F9JUk

[meager plover]

can you record some vid when a game play was running ?
yea they controler is move :w,a,s,d button:left,right

[fallow finch]

i wasnt able to click start

no key seems to work

[meager plover]

ohk its ok couldbe technical eror on os platf,key
are you using a windows?

thats game is only for windows i cant try on another os

[fallow finch]

well you sent a exe

so its obviously windows

how do i select

[meager plover]

ohk using left arow

[fallow finch]

thats the most counter-intuitive thing i've ever seen

[meager plover]

my bad sry

[fallow finch]

there's also no way to edit controls

i cant play with WASD on my french keyboard

[meager plover]

iam still beginer indie game dev 🥲 , using edit controler could be next year.

[fallow finch]

just leave a json file somewhere

so i can change controls manually at least

how to escape this screen
left doesnt work

[meager plover]

using right arow

[fallow finch]

[meager plover]

😂

[fallow finch]

wait

i didnt mean escape

like how do i play the game

is the game just this screen

[meager plover]

go to stage training

[fallow finch]

first time i see this

just start the game with tutorial tbh (and you have a continue button)

[meager plover]

dude come on it just for next update, could be some day

[fallow finch]

i wanted to go back to menu to see options to see how to jump

[meager plover]

😅

[fallow finch]

i pressed esc and it leaves the whole app

controls REALLY need testing

[meager plover]

esc is for leave game

[fallow finch]

i thought it would get back to menu

like in most games

if you don't have time to implement control settings just leave a json somewhere

so we can still edit them

[meager plover]

sure just try it could be that game not well. or bad rating. iam not gonna going progress

[fallow finch]

is jumping a feature acually

huh

[meager plover]

yeah like that just jumping, and going to finish.

[fallow finch]

LEFT key to JUMP

[meager plover]

😂 should be using joystick, so it is a new brand from keyboard

[fallow finch]

even flash games were not doing this lul

[meager plover]

pygame 1 year

iam still learning

[meager plover]

iam not learn about json for now i just focus on my game to be good enought to play and confert on gameplay

[fallow finch]

json can just be a python dict

{
 'jump': value of pygame.K_SPACE,
 'select': value of pygame.K_RETURN,
 ...
}

like this

you load it when the game starts so controls are configurable

[meager plover]

ohk yeah i think i should learn form out of python.
yea it gonna be set

[fallow finch]

json is in standard library of python

json.load/loads and json.dump/dumps to convert a json to dict and dict to json

[meager plover]

ohk so the implement is somethink kind of that

[fallow finch]

do you have public source code of this game

so i can check it

[meager plover]

i think i should be create some list for controler on pygame

no it wasnt share on public code

yea its gonna be easy to create controler but idk its so lazy

i should be practice next week

[exotic lance]

Hello what type of can I make in pygame

[meager plover]

a game ? sure many tutorial on pygame book on itch .io

[meager plover]

did anyone have try to create an game online on pygame ?

[raven kernel]

it has been done
https://youtu.be/_hh7Oe1ohQU

also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUcLkhdD6IU&pp=ygUaZGFmbHVmZnlwb3RhdG8gbXVsdGlwbGF5ZXI%3D

[meager plover]

waw cool

i should buy raspbery Pi-server

[vital saddle]

uhmm depend what you want to do

[cosmic oxide]

@jade latch This server isn't the place to post advertisements looking for work, you'd be much better off looking on actual dedicated jobs boards or websites.

!rule 9 6

[frank field]

Rules

6. Do not post unapproved advertising.

9. Do not offer or ask for paid work of any kind.

[limber veldt]

Making more progress, fighter dives, the morphing animation while subtle in the original, is still missing in mine, I think I need it, even if it's barely noticeable

[marble jewel]

Got boss music working! Check it out here: https://youtu.be/HwNAd0IIc2o

[spiral elbow]

@twilit summit hi

[random oyster]

to make games in python you use pygame right?

[brisk yew]

There are a bit more options than that, but pygame(-ce) is a popular one, I'd suggest using the pygame-ce version of pygame.
Other options are pyglet, arcade, renpy (for visual novels), Panda3D, ursina

[random oyster]

thanks

[charred sigil]

Yo guys so I’m tryna make this doodle jump game and it’s going pretty good but I’m stuck at the point where I’m trying to make it so that when the character hits the orange platforms it loses a life and after losing all 3 the games ends but it just isn’t working

Just ping me to talk so I can find this place again lol

Nvm the issue has been resolved but if anyone wants to see my game I’ll send the code for it (:

[dawn nacelle]

I have finally released my first (pygame) game on itch.io. Free to download and play (Mac and Windows):

https://irvkalb.itch.io/rats

This is a highly challenging 80's style retro shooter game. Here is a link to the How to Play video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX_oFR27g2g

Please check it out. I hope you enjoy it.

[twilit summit]

????

[spiral elbow]

u here too bro?

[meager plover]

yea it gonna be cool for placing database user.

[meager plover]

nice and cool is that using python module ?
its only 19.35MB

[dawn quiver]

Hello guys, I have questions about creating a game (I’m writing something for the first time) and I don’t know where to turn, should I write about it in this channel?

[leaden bane]

yeah

[ancient solar]

i wish we had more options like java does

[leaden bane]

wdym

[ancient solar]

well if you want to work on game development in python, its really not that big of a setback if you make your own engine system

but if you were working with java or c# there are some complex library and engines to work with in them

obviously though its not that big of a deal because moving between languages isnt a large issue

and each language has its downsides and advantages

[quartz fossil]

WTF? I'd need ages to come up with something like Panda3D, but I can pip install it in mere seconds just fine.

[dawn nacelle]

The game is written in pure Python with the pygame module. It also uses two packages that I built: pygwidgets and pyghelpers, that are freely downloadable from github, and are free and open source. The game is my best attempt yet to show off the power of object-oriented programming. Glad to hear that you liked it.

[stoic harbor]

just made my first adventure game in python!

[quartz fossil]

Well? Show us then! 😛

[stoic harbor]

its from the beaches on d-day

[ancient solar]

thats a good point

[meager plover]

yea i was suprised becouse iam using pygame my game is alwasy could be almost 30~ without asset music etc. and with asset coulbe more than 30

good a progress

[dawn nacelle]

My assets are rather small. Only about 2GB of images and just under 5 GB of sounds. All the rest is code. Heavily object-oriented. I hope you enjoy playing it.

[molten juniper]

does anyone use ursina

[dawn quiver]

ive never heard of it

[quartz fossil]

It's @tranquil girder's abstraction layer on top of Panda3D. They have their own Discord server, there'll you'll definitely find users, @molten juniper

[molten juniper]

ok

[stoic harbor]

i think i got it

[meager plover]

iam not using ursina tutorial is still low on search website

[ancient solar]

did ursina engine get new documentation?

or maybe i am mistaking it for something else

looks much more improved now

[stoic harbor]

just made hangman in text 👍

its kinda bulky but thats something i fix later

[meager plover]

ahk i was chek it too now yea it was improved. best choice for 3D game. panda or ursina

[ancient solar]

i would assume ursina

[ancient solar]

thats cool

[meager plover]

iam not ready yet to create 3D game iam still improve on 2D game

[ancient solar]

i see

i hope you enjoy it

i like it but i am just terrible with art

[meager plover]

i cant learn 3D for now

i think i need more 1 year learn for 2D pygame 1st.

after that i gonna try to learn 3D

there was more option good on 3D

i hear about blender and UPBGE

that was good option for selling a game 3D Game

[ancient solar]

yeah

personally i suck with blender

but if you are comfortable with it

it definitely sounds like a good option

[meager plover]

😂 3d game engine back to newbie again

and using blender create some minecraft object

iam not going to 3d becouse of test game of 3d

i should have a good spect pc for render

[cold storm]

I had been working on world design for like years

here is my project

now I have it, and I revisted game logic

about 3d / 2d games - just keep doodeling and eventually you will find your style @meager plover @ancient solar

[meager plover]

yea we are. iam loving for 2d becouse of my pc. so scary to make 3d

heres is my project now

[stoic harbor]

is that in python?

cant be

[meager plover]

animation its still need to be improve with a button

[cold storm]

yeah it is

[stoic harbor]

python for me is just text

[cold storm]

its upbge fork and everything is py

[meager plover]

why i was share not in python

ofcourse it was python

[stoic harbor]

well hwo did you make it a scene with objects

[meager plover]

😅

[stoic harbor]

idk i started yesterday

[cold storm]

@stoic harbor upbge fork

of blender

it makes game development in py much much easier

https://upbge.org

I run the upbge discord, and have a few smol patches to the source

(exposing openXR to the game engine)

[meager plover]

it was bug when jump i was testing my main character right now

need to be fix tomorow

iam still not understand fow to using blits.

[ancient solar]

😭 the one time coding isnt the hardest part

[cold storm]

@ancient solar take some tutorials for blender / game design and get started

with almost everything the hard part is getting started

[limber veldt]

Progress, short gameplay demo, still lacks enemy firing but getting there, all the stages are working, challenge stages too. I just added those little scoring sprites, among other things

I basically just need to write the die method, it'll need a little logic since there are sometimes two ships

Like ships already can die and explode but the level needs to handle them, making the correct one go away and the remaining active

Like in the arcade original, if you kill a captured ship's captor, it's boss, while it is in formation, it becomes an enemy in formation that will eventually dive and shoot at the player. If player kills it, they get extra score, if they let it go and it finishes its dive, it will respawn with the enemies at the next stage and return to formation, giving you another chance to save it by killing its boss on a dive instead of in formation

[marble jewel]

Isometria Demo is now live on itch, get it here: https://bigwhoopgames.itch.io/isometria-demo

[meager plover]

waw conggrats 🍻

[marble jewel]

thanks hope you enjoy

[meager plover]

everythink going well, cool ! iam using old pc

[marble jewel]

nice

I know I need to add a guide or some npc to tell you how to do things

but the demo is basically just the swamp biome, no caves or dungeons and one boss which you can summon

[dawn quiver]

what kind of thing did you use to make the game?

[marble jewel]

this is all pygame and python

[dawn quiver]

ohh

damn

that's pretty sick

[marble jewel]

thanks

[meager plover]

i was playing and it was cool is multiplayer was working ?

[dawn quiver]

I haven't played the game, but it looks pretty sickk

[marble jewel]

multiplayer works, you'll need to forward ports on your router if you want to play with people over the internet, but via LAN you should just be able to connect to an ip

[meager plover]

yea it was. it realy cool game cant wait , i wanna create multiplayer online too but still learning now

[dawn quiver]

I'm still learning about loops in dictionaries

I'm at chapter 6

[meager plover]

😅 i think you was go to pygame doc.

fell wanna going to #networks so scary...

someday create coding for multiplayer game online

after my pygame skill done

[dawn quiver]

wishing for your succes big bro 💪

[quartz fossil]

Anybody here know a good GLSL course? I'm familiar with the basics, and have written a few very simple shaders, but now I want to really understand all the nuts and bolts.

[meager plover]

thankyou, you should did it too

[ancient solar]

works great on linux

[stoic harbor]

just getting used to turtle

[glossy crane]

Does anyone here know what six mens morris is?

[stoic harbor]

just added a multiplier

[brisk yew]

If you like game dev the most, you should probably be looking at C++/C#, although Godot with its GDScript whose syntax is very similar to Python is also a good option ig

generally you'd have to learn the basic stuff of a language ofc, but it's a lot about game design itself which is a language-agnostic topic anyway, I've heard GDC talks are a good source (on yt (that's where I know to find it, mby they have them somewhere else too))

[willow axle]

Hello

[normal silo]

Pick a popular game engine (e.g. Godot or Unity or Unreal) and then learn whatever language that engine uses for scripting (first step). Programming is only part of the problem, you need to learn some mathematics needed for game development (see Freya Holmer's series on math for game devs (on YT)).

Popular game engines will usually have a bunch of documentation that probably also has some tutorials in them, read the documentation / tutorials / samples.

Try to figure things out yourself first by reading the documentation before looking elsewhere for answers.

[lean trout]

is there's anybody here that can speak arabic?

[vagrant saddle]

speak or read/write ? ( and not me both)

[pine plinth]

question about gui libraries: #user-interfaces message
reposting here because this channel is also kinda related

[vagrant saddle]

good python integration + fast means drawing must be offloaded to C/C++ or GPU shaders. Maybe look for something like LVGL(C actively maintened) Panda3D-DirectGUI/LUI(python/C++/GLSL but DIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3r4JrTHZAA )

all of those can run on web/webgl btw

Harfang3D has decent imgui/python integration but i did not use it much so i don't know what you can do with it

[astral cargo]

@fallow storm #1176206889562951730 message

didn't have time to read your answer before the thread closed, but it turns out you were more or less correct

like you pointed out, i was using different formulas for setting the size of the surface and for iteratively blitting each line onto it

in one calculation i had included only line spacing and not line height, while the other had both. this led to the text being squashed together when blitting each line, whereas the surface itself was actually the "proper" size

thank you so much for your help. i was stuck on this for days lol

[fallow storm]

👍

[dawn quiver]

Guys i wanna make a clicker game, How could i go about this? anyone got pygame docs? etc etc

[brisk yew]

le docs for pygame-ce: https://pyga.me/docs/

[quartz fossil]

This course is probably required reading: https://gamebalanceconcepts.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/level-1-intro-to-game-balance/

[unkempt lintel]

Do mods count as games

[bright moss]

hi everyone

i need some help regarding discord account please anyone from NA can Dm em

[bright plover]

!rule 5
Asking people to DM you about their account is extremely weird.
That's how 99% of Discord phishing scams start.
If there's something you need you can let us know here, in the server, and we can try and direct you to the right place.

[frank field]

Rules

5. Do not provide or request help on projects that may violate terms of service, or that may be deemed inappropriate, malicious, or illegal.

[thorny atlas]

Hello, can I get some pointers on what I can do to improve this code for a card game pls? The code is as followed.

Import random

class Player:
def init(self, name):
self.name = name
self.score = 0

class Game:
def init(self):
self.players = []
self.round_limit = 0
self.rounds_played = 0
self.deck = self.create_deck()

def create_deck(self):
    ranks = ['2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', 'Jack', 'Queen', 'King', 'Ace']
    suits = ['Hearts', 'Diamonds', 'Clubs', 'Spades']
    deck = [{'rank': rank, 'suit': suit} for rank in ranks for suit in suits]
    random.shuffle(deck)
    return deck

def add_player(self, name):
    self.players.append(Player(name))

def set_round_limit(self, limit):
    self.round_limit = limit

def draw_card(self, player):
    if self.deck:
        card = self.deck.pop()
        return card
    else:
        print("The deck is empty.")
        return None

def play_round(self):
    for player in self.players:
        card = self.draw_card(player)
        if card:
            print(f"{player.name} drew {card['rank']} of {card['suit']}")
    self.update_scores()
    self.display_scores()
    self.rounds_played += 1

def update_scores(self):
    for player in self.players:
        player.score += 1

def display_scores(self):
    print("\nCurrent Scores:")
    for player in self.players:
        print(f"{player.name}: {player.score}")
    print()

def main():
# Create game
game = Game()

# Get player names
for i in range(2):
    name = input(f"Enter name for player {i + 1}: ")
    game.add_player(name)

# Get round limit
round_limit = int(input("Enter the round limit: "))
game.set_round_limit(round_limit)

# Main game loop
while game.rounds_played < game.round_limit:
    print(f"\n--- Round {game.rounds_played + 1} ---")
    game.play_round()

# Announce overall winner
game.display_scores()
overall_winner = max(game.players, key=lambda player: player.score)
print(f"{overall_winner.name} is the overall winner!")

if name == "main":
main()

[quartz fossil]

1. Putting triple backticks around it, with python after the upper ones, so that Discord formats the code properly. 2) Improve how? What is broken? What is suboptimal? What are the hindrances to further development?

[pine plinth]

i dont understand why beginners are commenting every single line of code. it is not necessary, do not do that
(maybe it is from chatgpt? it tends to do that by default)

[brisk yew]

these comments in particular seem to be from CGPT

[ruby hemlock]

When should I comment, and when I should not?

[quartz fossil]

Do not comment bits of code that make it super-obvious what they do by just reading them. Comment on blocks large enough so that you can summarize what they do in a single sentence. Definitely comment stuff where you do something clever and non-obvious, like math.

[quartz fossil]

Another rule of thumb: There will come a day from which on you won't be looking at your code for months at a time, and when you come back, it will be either because there is a bug you want to fix, or because you want to overhaul the whole project. Write the comments that you will want to read at that pojnt, because you will have forgotten every detail.

[buoyant lance]

hello. i try to figure out how to fix my issue. mayby there is a person who meet this problem or know the solutions? So i make a hobby game based on python in renpy. Renpy is a "engine" to show pictures in real simple term. I think about future development and i meet with unsolved problem. Lets introduce concept. Most of games of i play has a one/two background picture of location what show above things you can click like picture of room and there is a bed, computer, doors and random stuff. In these games you able to change location by click door and from room you get teleported to corridor. Change background on corridor and we r in corridor. So this simple example is show how its make. But for me its very not satysfying method. I would like to make a step of player possible so i try to manage location as a grid of cells and player will by move change a cell in a location but this method is well known from isometric tile games known as rpg style games but i would like to have first person view in renpy 😅 so i am very far in developing editor for locations as a grid with connections between cells as a room is 5x5 grid and it makes connections between cells closing to 8 directions by cell (45 deg is enough) and i assume that player by step can change cell horizontally vertically and by 45deg cross. I build whole structures of data for this what's matter for me. But! Concept for me is first person. And from this the things comes tricky. I dont know how to figure out the transistion from 2d grid to 3d wiev. grid based game make me to render minimum 8 pictures of single cell and it get worse with every single idea.. I try to find smart way to get rid of static methods to render everything as is like picture have room (walls, bed, posters on walls) as a one picture from 45 angle of grid 1x3. I want to get something what will read actual grid and calculate location as a one and read stuff in it like 5x5 room has a border...

[buoyant lance]

in cell 1.1 when two walls meets north one and west one read so there is a corner.. and i am closing myself in box when i try to figure out to not render 8 pictures by cell of whole room in this perspective coz i dont know how to find solution. Single bed in room is a problem becouse if player will change the tile/cell the degree of see of the bed is changed from every single cell. One time will be from side one time from front and one time from cross view. So i decide to try something like sprite. Show everything as a sprite changed based by angle of wiev. So if the player get in to the room in 1x1cell and see bed on 3x5 cell so he is see it by some angle what i dont know how to measure to answer the system to show sprite of the bed on the angle... and i am stuck in this idea... I know it is wrong.. or maybe not resolved yet

and the best part is... i try to make a game without a libs. I am not learning librays so i write my own code. like time and calendar from scratch xD

[quartz fossil]

So you are trying to add a kind of first-person view to a framework made for generic visual novels? That's... ambitious. I'd recommend asking on the Ren'Py Discord server, it's linked on their homepage.

I don't know whether they make it possible, but this sounds like a case where you want to switch between different game loops.

[quartz fossil]

I would recommend rethinking that stance. Game development is hard enough already without reinventing all the wheels.

[buoyant lance]

yes. i understand your worry about it but exacly only my code is a code what i understand ^^

[quartz fossil]

Then learn reading manuals, API docs, and source. It will turbocharge your progress.

[buoyant lance]

i am asking for way of concept.

about solutions.. not again advices like "learn manuals".

to be honest. Most of code produce gpt. I try to make it pleasure not crawling in mud xD

https://youtu.be/ECqUrT7IdqQ?si=FSEtkOW1ZaHVv7kJ

i could.. but i am not 100% sure in pseudo 3d. I am in renpy

yes. like always 🙂 alone..

[vagrant saddle]

use async+a compositor( Panda3D of course is the best for that - who can do the most can do the less) , virtualize all inputs and blit all your game engineS renderingS into surfaceS that way you can have text mode, renpy , 3d and more all at the same time. Schwarzbaer is right, you want to integrate multiple game loops ( the rendering ones, not the logic one that you want to keep control of in"your code" )

[vagrant saddle]

iirc renpy uses pygame ( or something close), you can use a software rasterizer in place of pseudo 3D https://github.com/rkibria/pyrasterize

fusing 3d with novels ... That sounds a lot like making a story boarding tool (as used in movie production) in the end. You should dive into Panda3D for that it has been done before with success but i would not count too much on IA generated code

[vital saddle]

lmao i watched that yesterday

[buoyant lance]

thank for answer. Now i will dig into what u propose. see and look.

[cold storm]

Upbge is fun

It's a full featured game engine in blender 4.1x

(great for 3d)

[raven kernel]

tried it, cool attempt keep it up 👍

doesn't really work though

[dry cloak]

Itd be funny if the number changed each time you guessed a number

Wh.. how is that i so tall

Am i going crazy?

İ > i

[dawn quiver]

hi

can someone help me to learn python pls

[honest ridge]

I WANT CODINGS FOR CREATING A DRAWING IN PYTHON CAN ANYBODY HELP ME IN THIS IM A BASIC FULL GUY IN PYTHONNN

[vagrant saddle]

maybe try the turtle here https://think.cs.vt.edu/blockpy/blockpy/

[woven scaffold]

Damn that turtle

I lost 3 months working on a 2d game on it and it goes me crazy

🤣

[ancient solar]

Ik this is early in development but, modding support when?

[bold radish]

can anybody tell whats wrong here?

[next pine]

You don't have a varibale called img_name

[bold radish]

how can i fix it

[next pine]

You have to replace it with with the name of the image that you are trying load dah

[bold radish]

thx

[empty beacon]

Hi

Can you help me

[next pine]

In what

[empty beacon]

I created a python game but it has an error

I will share with u the code and the error

[vagrant saddle]

it is __import__('pygame').transform.rotate(image, ....) not image.rotate

[empty beacon]

No I import pygame as ph

pg

[vagrant saddle]

and one image(surface) from images at a time not the whole collection object

[brisk yew]

It'd be great if you could not dump a whole ton of pictures of your code
Pictures/screenshots of code are generally discouraged in the first place, you should send code as text, you can use a pasting service like paste.pythondiscord.com for that
Same with the error messages

[vital saddle]

You're giving a lot images at a time, you should give one at a time

[limber veldt]

Should use the paste link yeah...anyway, progress on my Galaga....maybe

[prisma olive]

in pygame how would i clear the previous image of a jump animation without filling in the whole screen?

[vagrant saddle]

that depends on how the background of jump zone was generated, brute force method would be copy the whole block for restore (minus next new jump zone eventually depends on sprite shape and alpha channel)

[fiery night]

I DID IT i figured out after a month of researching maths how to create a 3d engine in pygame

[sudden sinew]

my snake game is stranger

import pygame, random
janela = pygame.display.set_mode((300, 300))
pontos = 0
tam = []
x = y = 0
x1 = random.randint(0, 300)
y1 = random.randint(0, 300)
q = "baixo"
qq = pygame.time.Clock()
while True:
tam.append((x, y))
qq.tick(20)
p = pygame.event.get()
for i in p:
i = str(i)
if i == "<Event(769-KeyUp {'unicode': 'a', 'key': 97, 'mod': 4096, 'scancode': 4, 'window': None})>":
q = "esquerda"
if i == "<Event(769-KeyUp {'unicode': 's', 'key': 115, 'mod': 4096, 'scancode': 22, 'window': None})>":
q = "baixo"
if i == "<Event(769-KeyUp {'unicode': 'd', 'key': 100, 'mod': 4096, 'scancode': 7, 'window': None})>":
q = "direta"
if i == "<Event(769-KeyUp {'unicode': 'w', 'key': 119, 'mod': 4096, 'scancode': 26, 'window': None})>":
q = "cima"
janela.fill((0,0,0))
s = pygame.event.get()
#cabeça
if q == "baixo":
y += 10
if q == "cima":
y -= 10
if q == "esquerda":
x -= 10
if q == "direta":
x += 10
pop = pygame.draw.rect(janela, (255, 0, 255), (x, y, 10, 10))
#morrer
if x > 310 or x < 0 or y > 310 or y < 0:
print(pygame.mouse.get_pos())
pygame.quit()
fruta = pygame.draw.rect(janela, (255, 0, 0), (x1, y1, 10, 10))
if fruta.colliderect(pop):
pontos += 1
x1 = random.randint(0, 200)
y1 = random.randint(0, 200)
fruta = pygame.draw.rect(janela, (255, 0, 0), (x1, y1, 10, 10))
#corpo
o = tam
o.reverse()
tt = []
if pontos > 0:
for i in range(pontos):
tt.append(o[i])
for k in tt:
ll = pygame.draw.rect(janela, (0, 255, 0), (k[0], k[1], 10, 10))
for i in range(pontos):
if (x, y) == (o[i][0], o[i][1]):
pygame.quit()
print(x1, y1)
pygame.display.update()
#swss

[long blaze]

GUys i need help.

[sudden sinew]

It's psychedelic

Any solution?

[lunar venture]

I think this is the wrong way to check for events

You're comparing what is likely a pygame object to a string which seems like a repr of one

[sudden sinew]

but it works

[half rapids]

cursed pygame code be like

[boreal stump]

Use event.type and event.key...

[brisk yew]

that just does not matter, what matters is readability and uhh practices, besides this does not seem reliable
you should also name your variables properly, single character names are just not readable
it should be

events = pygame.event.get()
for event in events:
    if event.type == pygame.KEYUP:
        if event.key == pygame.K_a:
            q = "esquerda"
        elif event.key == pygame.K_s:
            q = "baixo"
        ...

if you really want to stick with what you have, you should at least use match/case:

events = pygame.event.get()
for event in events:
    match event:
        case pygame.Event(type=pygame.KEYUP, key=pygame.K_a):
            q = "esquerda"
        case pygame.Event(type=pygame.KEYUP, key=pygame.K_a):
            q = "baixo"
        ...

[boreal stump]

Turn

    p = pygame.event.get()
    for i in p:
        i = str(i)
        if i == "<Event(769-KeyUp {'unicode': 'a', 'key': 97, 'mod': 4096, 'scancode': 4, 'window': None})>":
            q = "esquerda"
        if i == "<Event(769-KeyUp {'unicode': 's', 'key': 115, 'mod': 4096, 'scancode': 22, 'window': None})>":
            q = "baixo"
        if i == "<Event(769-KeyUp {'unicode': 'd', 'key': 100, 'mod': 4096, 'scancode': 7, 'window': None})>":
            q = "direta"
        if i == "<Event(769-KeyUp {'unicode': 'w', 'key': 119, 'mod': 4096, 'scancode': 26, 'window': None})>":
            q = "cima"

into

for event in pygame.event.get():
    if event.type == pygame.KEYUP:
        if event.key == pygame.K_a:
            q = "esquerda" # also, get rid of single-letter variable names. It's never a good choice
        elif event.key == pygame.K_s:
            q = "baixo"
        elif event.key == pygame.K_d:
            q = "direta"
        elif event.key == pygame.K_w:
            q = "cima"

[brisk yew]

also get rid of this line s = pygame.event.get()

[brisk yew]

why do you want to do that?

[prisma olive]

forgot, solved it ages ago

[quartz fossil]

Was that for the benefit of learning the math, or for actually doing something 3D? If the former, now make the lens non-orthogonal. If the latter, why not just use Panda3D?

[limber veldt]

I'd like to explore more state machines for games, does anyone have a small example they might share?

I'm currently just using a dict to store state names as keys and methods as values then calling like so self.states[self.state](dt) in the update()

I use mine a lot, it makes the logic easier for me to simply change state

[sudden sinew]

@boreal stump tava com preguiça de pesquisar no youtube

[quartz fossil]

"AI and Games" has a video on Hierarchical Finite State Machines in Doom 2016, if that helps. Panda3D's manual has a small tutorial on regular FSMs: https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/programming/finite-state-machines/fsm-introduction

[sudden sinew]

I would like to know how to make an object with two colors without an external image in the pygame.sprite class

[brisk yew]

don't have to look on youtube, you can just look at the docs (which is where you should be looking at anyway): https://pyga.me/docs/

and please stick to English

[fiery night]

I wamt to make my own 3d engine so thats why i made it and sure ill try making it non-orthogonal

Ob wait i think it already is if you cjange one vertex it expands the shape

Or are you talking about if multiple cubes collide?

[quartz fossil]

No, I mean that with the video you provided, the camera projection is orthogonal, as if 3D space was projected flatly onto a 2D plane, instead of using a point lens to capture a frustum of space.

[astral flame]

I'm not sure if this is the place to ask, but is there anyone willing to DM or VC with me to help me with pygame? I am trying to make a top down rpg and I will need help from someone on more than one occasion, if anyone could help please send me a friend request. Thanks.

I just don't know how to do camera stuff

[dawn quiver]

How do you change the camera view so its lookin upside? and not from the side :S

[brisk yew]

could you elaborate

[marble jewel]

Isometria Devlog 35 - Demo Released, More Options, Basic Foods - Made with Pygame and Python https://youtu.be/jIQa19aAaDI

[cold storm]

I need the equation to rotate a vector by a euler

(and a inverted euler)

To backport some candy to blender 2.79.6 from 4.0

Decals

[marble jewel]

import numpy as np

def rotate_vector(vector, euler_angles):
    roll, pitch, yaw = euler_angles
    rotation_matrix = (
        np.array([
            [1, 0, 0],
            [0, np.cos(roll), -np.sin(roll)],
            [0, np.sin(roll), np.cos(roll)]
        ]) @
        np.array([
            [np.cos(pitch), 0, np.sin(pitch)],
            [0, 1, 0],
            [-np.sin(pitch), 0, np.cos(pitch)]
        ]) @
        np.array([
            [np.cos(yaw), -np.sin(yaw), 0],
            [np.sin(yaw), np.cos(yaw), 0],
            [0, 0, 1]
        ])
    )
    rotated_vector = rotation_matrix @ vector
    return rotated_vector

def rotate_vector_inverse(vector, euler_angles):
    roll, pitch, yaw = euler_angles
    inverse_rotation_matrix = (
        np.array([
            [1, 0, 0],
            [0, np.cos(roll), np.sin(roll)],
            [0, -np.sin(roll), np.cos(roll)]
        ]) @
        np.array([
            [np.cos(pitch), 0, -np.sin(pitch)],
            [0, 1, 0],
            [np.sin(pitch), 0, np.cos(pitch)]
        ]) @
        np.array([
            [np.cos(yaw), np.sin(yaw), 0],
            [-np.sin(yaw), np.cos(yaw), 0],
            [0, 0, 1]
        ])
    )
    rotated_vector = inverse_rotation_matrix @ vector
    return rotated_vector

thats according to chatgpt

[brisk yew]

mmm

!rule 10

[frank field]

Rules

10. Do not copy and paste answers from ChatGPT or similar AI tools.

[brisk yew]

Also for working with single matrices like this, you probably would want to use pyglm or just do math using pure Python stuff, cuz yk, numpy being slow with small arrays and such

[bold radish]

yo what is wrong here

here is the full code

class Tilemap:
def init(self, game, tile_size=16):
self.game = game
self.tile_size = tile_size
self.tilemap = {}
self.offgrid_tiles = []

    for i in range(10):
        self.tilemap[str(3 + i) + ';10'] = {'type': 'grass', 'variant': 1, 'pos': (3 + i + 10)}
        self.tilemap['10:' + str(i + 5)] = {'type': 'stone', 'variant': 1, 'pos': (10, 5 + i)}

def render(self, surf):
    for tile in self.offgrid_tiles:
        surf.blit(self.game.assets[tile['type']][tile['variant']], tile['pos'])

    for loc in self.tilemap:
        tile = self.tilemap[loc]
        surf.blit(self.game.assets[tile['type']][tile['variant']], (tile['pos'][0] * self.tile_size, tile['pos'][1] * self.tile_size))

[brisk yew]

'pos': (3 + i + 10)

[final star]

im trying to unpack a .obb file from a game and i figured out that it's a .wad file; how do i open this? it's not from doom or half life. hope this is kinda relevant

[narrow scroll]

hey guys can you test my ping pong game i made using python

[vagrant saddle]

is it pygame ?

[quartz fossil]

What is the third/fifth/nth element of a natural number?

[trail wadi]

hey everyone! will learning game development be a great way to start out with software creation? or is game development coding very different to regular standard coding, and because of that it wont help to learn?

[quartz fossil]

It is a good choice because game development is very rewarding once you actually do see things move on the screen. It is a bad choice because even a relatively simple game, seen through to the end, will be a major endeavor. There is no difference in how you program (though you might have to get a bit creative with debugging), but there is a vast difference in what domain you apply that knowledge to. An example of a typical programming project would be a web application, so you'll eventually learn about HTTP and SQL. With game development you might one day find yourself studying numerical simulations of fluid dynamics because that is still simpler than magnetohydrodynamics, but still good enough to paint an aurora on the sky; Either way it will make you reminisce about the days where you thought learning SQL to store game data in a database was a head scratcher.

[wicked void]

hello, does anybody knows how can i make short game using pygame any knowledge

[gentle tulip]

i would prob start with the screen size and character movement

thats a pretty decent start, depending on what you would like to code ofc

[brisk yew]

you could make pong

[frosty pulsar]

Hello. I'm new with game development in python. I have a project where I need to make a game that uses algorithms. Its much better if it can be applied in a real life scenarios. Any help it much appreciated ❤️

[quartz fossil]

"[a program] that uses algorithms" is basically "water that is wet".

But you might start at writing a Nim game, and then give it an AI.

[frosty pulsar]

It has to use the short path algorithm for the game. Ty

[quartz fossil]

Ah! How about a twin stick shooter where you run over a map with lots of barriers on it, but the NPCs always take the shortest path to you?

[frosty pulsar]

Is a game where train tracks need to be arranged correctly in order for the train to reach its goal possible in python? How can i make it?

[bold radish]

Yo can any of u giv me an idea to make a game about

[brisk yew]

make a game about a ball getting abused, it gets hit by paddles all the time
I'm thinking the game could be called pong

[limber veldt]

That's a good idea, learn to make a game loop and draw things moving on the screen, a ball and paddles

I've worked out demo states and the switcher, still some kinks but still making progress too

Like killing those bullets and explosions when demo gameplay initializes

[brisk yew]

it looks amazing

[limber veldt]

I need to set up the gameplay demo to include a ship capture and release, using a dt counter to trigger the shots at enemies so I just need to populate the list that triggers the shots

There seems some wiggle room in it, not completely reliable yet

As is now, that list has all relative values, as in time between jumping to the next index, maybe I should make it absolute

[trail wadi]

hey everyone 🙂 i hope you're having a good day

I'm still at the very VERY basics and im struggling with making a tic tac toe game. I can play on the grid but only in the first row? i think there is something wrong with my event handling . can i share my code here for some help or is there a different chanel?

[limber veldt]

Every time the index increments, I'm also zeroing the timer so it should be pretty reliable but not quite

Do you know https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ ? Good for sharing codes

[trail wadi]

Hm I haven't heard of it before. I'll check it out rn, thank you

[limber veldt]

It might be better to just paste your code there, save it and copy/paste the link here with your question

[trail wadi]

ahh this is so helpful lol ty man. here is the code relating to my question https://paste.pythondiscord.com/5Q3Q

[limber veldt]

Your markers list seems to be working, perhaps a closer look at the drawing

And I found it

In line 39 you have y_pos+= 1 unindent it so it's aligned with the if statement just above it

Also, seems you have extra spaces in both lines 38 and 39

You want to increase y for every row, not for every element in the row with a value of -1

[trail wadi]

BROO you are so smart lol it worksss

im still getting used to the whole indent thing 💀 didn't realize its that significant

[limber veldt]

Other than that small error, well done. Any ideas for your next project?

Maybe you could add win detection and draw the line when game ends

And even a play again prompt

[pallid cloud]

Keep score if you're playing with two people

[median linden]

Take a look at my pacman game

[viral burrow]

Hi everyone
Can you share game mechanic database, i want to implement some game mechanic but does not know where to start

[potent pebble]

Nicee start!

[trail wadi]

Definitely, but it was such a challenge to create just that I had to use each and every brain cell I had lol. So I think I’m just taking a couple days to properly cover the basics first like control flow statements and problem solving

[trail wadi]

Nice!

[quartz fossil]

The closest thing to a mechanics database would be https://ludes.cos.ufrj.br/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Game_Mechanics_Ontology.pdf

[viral burrow]

thank you very much, but i want more to do point list like:

1. snake game
2. tetris
3. same game[bejewelled/candy crush]
4. etc

[quartz fossil]

There is a structured list of fundamental mechanics in there.

[viral burrow]

ok, let me learn about that paper first

[bold radish]

can u clear it a little bit more pls

is there any better platform for python game development other than pygame

[quartz fossil]

Depends on your needs, abilities, and interests. The channel topic lists a few frameworks.

[brisk yew]

just make pong

[median linden]

made my python game and now its frozen

can someone check the errors

[quartz fossil]

Not unless you show them to us.

[median linden]

Alright I might send a snippet

It's almost 179 lines

[quartz fossil]

1. That's a screenshot, not text, I can't run that locally, and so 2) I can't see any error message and stack trace there.

[little galleon]

uh

[median linden]

Actually I fixed it

[blazing void]

After a few hours, experience from my old project and chatgpt I got this. Now I just need to make the walls (the white stuff) bigger and check whether in all 4 directions is enough space. Then I can test path finding algorithm, with the knowledge I will choose which one I will use for my ant simulation

My ant simulation was my main project, then I got the idea "Building an own labyrinth for path finding algorithm" would be easy.......... not with my too less lazy ideas like "absolute random labyrinth"

[median linden]

Look at this

[chrome abyss]

No no no, LOOK at THIS

Best programming expirience

[quartz fossil]

I see your images, but I do not know what on them is supposed to be interesting.

[chrome abyss]

This is a default for u?

[quartz fossil]

What "this"?

[dawn quiver]

what is this error?

[neon ferry]

Nahhh 3 screens and one vertical.

[quartz fossil]

A typo. You wrote "formaL" instead of "formaT".

[limber veldt]

Three day grind but I got it pretty good, and by that, I mean a reliably repeatable demo mode

I ended up implementing a frame counter to sync shots with movements of some enemies

My first couple attempt were naive, but I learned that for so much movement and so fast, using dt counters alone is not enough precision

Gotta have some 'keyframes' too

[quartz fossil]

That's pretty amazing, actually.

[limber veldt]

Thanks, I'll spend the next three days refactoring it but it's pretty clean

I tend to leave fragments of failed attempts until I get working attempts, leaving dangling attributes here and there, gotta refactor

Nothing there happens randomly, every shot and every move is choreographed yet it still looks organic enough, maybe could use some tweaks on that part

In retrospect, that's a lot of functionality coming together to make that happen

[limber veldt]

Sorting videos, this one came along, one of my boids sims, thought I'd share

They get so heavy, iterating every boid against every other boid for distances

[broken garden]

Hey I’m a 13 year old pygame programmer looking to gain experience

[limber veldt]

Demo loop finished

[shell nexus]

hello... i've been having a Error in Window's Event Viewer from python: https://bpa.st/ZD2Q

Anyone know what is wrong?

[quartz fossil]

Then code, and widen your horizon with the problems that you encounter.

[quartz fossil]

You are probably using SDL2 incorrectly, but there might also be a bug in it. Other than that, I can extract no information, and the next step would be to attach a debugger.

[quartz fossil]

Thanks, now I want to do boids again, too. 😛 Probably in compute shaders this time around, though.

[feral breach]

https://thepythoncode.com/article/create-a-tetris-game-with-pygame-in-python

i tried running the code from this website but for some reason the left side isnt bounded

curious how i could fix it. im assuming the problem is within

 def valid_move(self, piece, x, y, rotation):
     """Check if the piece can move to the given position"""
     for i, row in enumerate(piece.shape[(piece.rotation + rotation) % len(piece.shape)]):
         for j, cell in enumerate(row):
             try:
                 if cell == 'O' and (self.grid[piece.y + i + y][piece.x + j + x] != 0):
                     return False
             except IndexError:
                 return False
     return True

[feral breach]

also is there a way for holding down a key to be a bit slower?

for example

        if going_down == True:
            if game.valid_move(game.current_piece, 0, 1, 0):
                game.current_piece.y += 1 # Move the piece down
                game.score_add(1)

is going too quickluy

[limber veldt]

I'd put a counter somewhere in the code, like in update() so it increments every frame, when it reaches some limit, reset it to 0. Then in the event loop, where I'm reading the input, only read it (or respond to it, or whatever) when that counter has a specific value. You are using a frame limiter, right?

One could also implement a custom userevent but I think it's unnecessary for this

[feral breach]

So im basically just making a timer that only allows going down to be true on certain intervals?

Idk ab a frame limiter

[feral breach]

im unsure of how to implement that. update only really does stuff every time i hit down

[limber veldt]

Yes, and by frame limiter, I mean using pygame.time.Clock().tick(<frames per second>) in your update() method (or whatever you call your main game loop). Like, a counter will do no good for tracking time if your code is running wildly at 300-1000 frames per second

[feral breach]

oh yes its running at 60 fos

fps

[feral breach]

i got it working but is there a way to make a general form for a held key?

[feral breach]

and can someone help with this issue

[limber veldt]

The youtube channel Programming With Nick also has a decent Tetris tutorial if you wanted to take a look at it

I am in no way associated with the channel but I did the tutorial a few months ago

[feral breach]

im mostly modeling a puyo puyo game off of that code rn

[feral breach]

nvm got it fixed

[grand raven]

who uses turtle py to make games

[pine plinth]

i hope nobody

[round shell]

import robloxpy

GroupId = 12497268
TargetId = 679467633

robloxpy.User.Groups.External.GetGroups(TargetId)

Why its errors ?

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.roblox.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /users/679467633/groups (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x0000020A87E22090>: Failed to resolve 'api.roblox.com' ([Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed)"))

[bright plover]

You're not connected to the internet

... or they arent

That website doesn't exist

[round shell]

My internet works fine

[round shell]

What do you mean ?

[bright plover]

Open up your web browser, and try to go to https://api.roblox.com/

[round shell]

what happened ?

[bright plover]

It doesn't exist

You can't connect to something that doesn't exist

[round shell]

oh

[round shell]

AI told me these

[bright plover]

They're all wrong

[round shell]

bruhh

[bright plover]

You'll need a newer package that's actually up-to-date

[round shell]

oh alright

[manic bronze]

hey so im new to python can someone tell how to possibly make simulations like this im trying to study collisions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwIV-hSDL_A

[pulsar dragon]

Hello everyone, i was wondering how or if i can publish games made using python to the google play store, ive done some research but i cant find a simple explanation

thanks

[tranquil girder]

I think both pygame and kivy supports building for android. panda3d will too in the next version. What framework are you using?

I've actually published a game on Play store myself: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amlandinteractive.cmykswap&hl=en_US
However, it's not really fully featured Python, because it uses a custom language I made that's almost identical to Python, but not a 100%. It lacks some feature and have some python don't. I've written games that works in both languages though. If you want to try it it's here: https://pokepetter.github.io/taptapir/docs/index.html

[grand raven]

answer

[proper peak]

For this particular task it'd work to just blit the two squares (at their current positions) onto a canvas each frame without clearing the canvas. Pygame should be fine for it, say.

[valid bobcat]

@dimkauzh#0

[cunning sail]

gue

like girl I don't know

what you talkin about

but I like the way you say it

I guess

I am just trying to get 50 messages

to talk on the vc

I really don't know what to say

somebody help

I can't stop typing

Idk what the hell is happening

send help

[dawn quiver]

Real

[proper peak]

fun fact, this can get you banned from voice.

[fringe briar]

hahhahahah

pov: your keyboard has a mind of its own

[coarse lichen]

I might have messed up a bit ;_D

[obsidian spear]

I just finished a little game fully in python that playes on multiple windows with tkinter. Check it out and tell me what you think : https://yan-le-bambi.itch.io/window-warfare

[grand raven]

ok who is joining mini jam