game-development

[snow oyster]

how i can inject a python code in valorant ?

[reef helm]

I'd like to discuss in detail

[amber portal]

I don't think you can

and also

!rule 5

[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.

[noble dune]

How can I perfectly start with pygame?

[unreal river]

there's no "perfect" way to learn pygame, but I suggest watching youtube tutorials

[noble dune]

which channels?

[unreal river]

Clear Code has great tutorials

[unreal river]

https://youtu.be/AY9MnQ4x3zk?si=JYzAbuzvzHazCCxE

[noble dune]

thanks man

[vital saddle]

Yeah that guy is amazing

[tropic snow]

t

thats nice

[hollow shuttle]

sonic might be a little bit acoustic

[brazen condor]

Is game development much different from writing normal console programs?

Or gui apps

[limber veldt]

Beyond the physics and logic of moving and colliding things, probably not

[brisk yew]

yes, it's event-driven, so really a lot different, not that different from gui apps, but a lot of stuff you wouldn't use in gui dev

[brazen condor]

Ok

Thanks for your help

So I will have a bit of work to do

[vagrant spindle]

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[golden moon]

Hello, im attempting to create a platformer styled multiplayer game for a school project and was wondering if anyone could give me any info specifically on the multiplayer aspect of the game as i have the least knowledge on this, basically close to no experience.

[vagrant saddle]

split-screen multiplayer or online multiplayer ? this is radically different

splitscreen is easier, it is usually just running two copies of same game side by side and sharing all world info and handling players positions beetween them

[golden moon]

id say an online multiplayer over a LAN??

[dapper mantle]

What to enter so that numpy performs the function of the numpy module.enter here(keyboard.press('shift'))

[hollow shuttle]

how can i merge multiple pygame masks

[brisk yew]

could you elaborate? like what are the inputs and the expected output for example

[steel thorn]

does anyone have any good advice for progressing further in pygame like i know the basics such as: making a window drawing an object moving the player. but i dont know how to improve do i just keep watching tutorials? or do i do something else?

[normal silo]

Make a classic game, like pong, snake, tetris, mario, galaga, etc.

[meager plover]

idk i think ,multiplayer online game with server... its good chalange . for record such a rank in game or doing activity game multiplayer.

[steel thorn]

.

are you joking or being serious?

[meager plover]

if your create an offline multiplayer....maybe you will create 2 Controler at 1 Keyboard system....but If you gonna create an ONline multiplayer game...You should Understand about Networking and socket..... to save your data game that will appear on other display client,
if you have a trouble on network and need some advice you can go to #networks and talking with them. my project game rnow its still offline. hope your projeect well

[meager plover]

it was last game dev. we should be. but its ok if not going ther. ...

i think the improve is learn more about pygame. from now i still dont understand about pygame.KEYINPUT

trick on pygame that i was now when i was searching...i hope it will help newbie.

1. if you upload an image dont forget to use .convert_alpha(use your display main setting).
2. dont forget to use .fill(and use pygame.BLENDMODE_NONE) on main set display
3. put Your controler setup on last line code or at for event in pygame.event.get()

[limber veldt]

Have you followed many tutorials? I usually need a project of my own to apply the ideas I discover in tutorials, like some classic game usually

[frank field]

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[hollow shuttle]

I have mutliple tile classes with images for each one and i need to make it into one big map_mask

[rose hornet]

Is there anyone who knows pygame

[vapid basin]

Can someone help me with a code?

[night tundra]

yea send it

[night tundra]

i know smth

[winged badger]

I've been stuck trying to figure this one out. The board itself loads perfectly fine, I am just not able to move any of the pieces. Also the collision print statement never executes so I am assuming it is the way I am detecting collisions. Any help would be appreciated!

Code: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/FRHA

I am making a chess game in Pygame

[limber veldt]

This is not what you're looking for but I thought I'd share how I would make the pieces and move them, or one of the ways I'd try. Here's your code with a lot of it commented out but some piece objects instead of just images https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ZTKQ They can be picked up and dropped with a click, there is no collision detection or any of that, but the images move using the mouse

The pieces need a lot more functionality, a snap_to() method so when dropped, they auto snap to the center of the grid square, for instance

But just an idea of picking up and moving and dropping images

Pygame Sprites and Groups make everything easier

[rigid briar]

heloo

is there any way i can convert pygame to apk?

i tried the buildozer but it always fails

[shadow horizon]

are there other libraries then pygame for games

or game developement

[vagrant saddle]

if you just want an easy way to run game on mobile use pygame-web ( pygame-ce + pygbag ) eg https://pygame-web.github.io/showroom/pygame-scripts/org.pygame.touchpong.html

[rigid briar]

i see, which ones do you recommend?

[vagrant saddle]

if you want to run on mobile Pygame / Panda3D are safe bets

[rigid briar]

oh okay, current one I made was on pygame, however I tried using the Google colab thing using buildozer to convert to apk but it always kept failing

do I need to do something related to kivy? because it was mentioned couple of times

[vagrant saddle]

python-for-android part, kivy also uses that

but don't bundle kivy when you build a pygame app

[rigid briar]

oh okay

[woven glacier]

does anyone know of a good msvcrt equivalent for mac?

[harsh star]

Idk how popular it is on here, but I am personally using the python binding for raylib

[raven kernel]

Raylib is cool

[vagrant saddle]

btw raypyc bindings on web https://pygame-web.github.io/showroom/pygame-scripts/raypyc.html

[thorn crypt]

Attention game developers!
I am making a 2d game engine with python, called PyManEngine (PME). It is supposed to be a straight and simple game engine. If you guys wanna contribute to the project, then feel free to DM me.
Regards @thorn crypt

[vagrant saddle]

don't you want engine developpers instead ? afaik game dev. make games not engines 😄

[dawn quiver]

idk if python is the best language for a game engine

[vagrant saddle]

for scripting it is ok, but yeah lua or javascript will have better chances to be faster at runtime

[thorn crypt]

Well... I use unreal engine for game dev. The reason why I am making a game engine is because I want to as you know just experimenting

[marble jewel]

Isometria Devlog 41 - Quadtrees, Mage Armor, Better Movement Code, And Crit Chance! https://youtu.be/YEfP9G9zAVo

[split folio]

I don't know anybody who actually uses python for game dev

[woven glacier]

does anyone know of a good msvcrt equivalent for mac?

[proper peak]

msvcrt has like two dozen very different functions - what do you need to replicate?

[woven glacier]

getting keypresses

[proper peak]

Most libraries dealing with input provide a way of doing so, e.g. pygame or pynput. Or if want a console-specific one, blessed.

[gritty gorge]

Anyone know any libraries for making 3d games with pygame?

[brisk yew]

Panda3D and Ursina (wrapper around the former)

[gritty gorge]

There was a pygame 3d library but i forgot what it was

[gritty gorge]

nvm this actually may work

[gritty gorge]

how do i set any properties of the window bc i can't figure this out

[normal silo]

With what? Pygame?

[gritty gorge]

no panda3d

[normal silo]

Depending on what you want to set, you can do it through the global config, or by setting properties with WindowProperties. Config example: ```py
from panda3d.core import loadPrcFileData

loadPrcFileData('', 'fullscreen true')

https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/programming/configuration/configuring-panda3d

https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/programming/rendering-process/creating-windows-and-buffers

https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/reference/direct.showbase.ShowBase#direct.showbase.ShowBase.ShowBase.openWindow

https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/reference/panda3d.core.WindowProperties#panda3d.core.WindowProperties

[gritty gorge]

i'm trying to set stuff like the title and the icon

[normal silo]

https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/reference/panda3d.core.WindowProperties#panda3d.core.WindowProperties.setTitle https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/reference/panda3d.core.WindowProperties#panda3d.core.WindowProperties.setIconFilename

See the creating-windows-and-buffers link.

[gritty gorge]

i'm gonna need to see code examples

[normal silo]

import panda3d.core as p3d
from direct.showbase.ShowBase import ShowBase

app = ShowBase()

props = p3d.WindowProperties()
props.setTitle("Foo")
props.setIconFilename("test.png")

app.win.requestProperties(props)

app.run()

[gritty gorge]

thx

[normal silo]

You can also do it via lines like p3d.loadPrcFileData('', 'window-title Foo').

(List of all available config settings are in the docs)

[gritty gorge]

the background color isn't being set to the color i'm setting it to

[vagrant saddle]

you will find all samples here https://github.com/panda3d/panda3d/tree/master/samples

and you can have runnable gist

[gritty gorge]

I'm talking about the background color of the window

[vagrant saddle]

base.setBackgroundColor(r, g, b, a) or base.set_background_color(r, g, b, a)

r/g/b/a in [0.0 - 1.0]

[gritty gorge]

ik but when i set it the background stays white

from direct.showbase.ShowBase import ShowBase
import panda3d.core as pd

class MyApp(ShowBase):
    
    def __init__(self):
        ShowBase.__init__(self)
        self.render2d

app = MyApp()
props = pd.WindowProperties()
props.setTitle("Make Craft")
app.setBackgroundColor(153,255,255)
app.win.requestProperties(props)
app.run()

[gritty gorge]

the max value is 1 or 10?

[versed aurora]

been a while since ive talked here, i might try recoding 2048 some time

now that i have actual sprite code

the graphics for my original 2048 implementation were fucked.

by 2048 i mean 2048 from scratch

also huh panda3d, didnt know about that

i might have to give that a look

[gritty gorge]

Ye it's not bad

[gritty gorge]

I am getting this error when i try to set the pressEffect for my DirectButton but i am gettng this error

Cannot configure initialisation option "pressEffect" for DirectButton

[vagrant saddle]

they are float < 1.0 so this way https://pygame-web.github.io/showroom/pypad.html?-i#https://pmp-p.ddns.net/pygbag/paste/devlop.py

[woven tartan]

i need help with a bot im writing
the thing im having trouble with is: how do i send a click to a inactive window ? tried sendmessange, postmessage and the click works but not when the window is inactive (using win32api)

[vagrant saddle]

activate the window first

[dawn quiver]

sprite code? Is it going to run in a command prompt or is this with a graphics library?

[versed aurora]

cmd

[dawn quiver]

Oh very cool

[teal cargo]

Hello everybody!

I'm very new to gamedev, and I am working on game ideas,

but first of all, I need some help on choosing my lib.

Any ideas?

[proper peak]

pygame-ce is alright.

[teal cargo]

Ahh yes, the community edition of pygame (of which the original is currently down for a reason i know not of, and ignore my english), but I was wondering if I would have to do any sorts of prep.

I'm sure I need to download pygame-ce on its own, right?

[proper peak]

Well, you pip install pygame-ce and start writing code? I'm not sure I understand what prep you mean.

[teal cargo]

Should I do a course?

Follow a few tutorials?

Do some exercises?

[proper peak]

Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, there's a few tutorials, though it's mostly "absolute basics" and "obscure advanced topics" and not much in between: https://pyga.me/docs/#tutorials

[teal cargo]

So I should just look at the docs then?

I don't have any game ideas either.

I don't understand how game devs are able to think of a theme.

[proper peak]

I don't have any game ideas either.
Yeah, this is how it often goes. For this reason it doesn't matter much what engine or language you choose, because no matter what, quite a lot of the difficulty will be the "game design" part - figuring out what mechanics to implement.

As a exercise you could make your own version of some game you know. Maybe something as simple as snake, even.

[teal cargo]

Sure, I have seen this cute little video where somebody made the offline dino game but with capybaras

I'm sure i could probably do that

[dawn quiver]

Hey I got an idea

Yeah I might make that

But it will be a secret

[limber veldt]

Any game with capybaras is cool with me

[versed aurora]

ooh i got a cool idea for my redo of 2048

i could make it so when you lose, all the tiles kinda fall off the screen

i'd need to implement partial drawing of sprites though which shouldn't be too hard
i just need to sort of clip the strings

[primal wedge]

hello can someone help me with a pygame code?

it's a small issue

[vague marlin]

i'm scrared

[leaden bane]

we need your code in order to help

[meager plover]

if you want to find the idea of game just find on the object you like it...
example a HOUSE.....
then create a title of a game like House of ... ...
then create some design on how it will be playing...
you can chouse and idea like create or build or design it. or destroy it or make a wonderfull

it will go to game designer

if you go to solo game dev. just create a small game finish.

but if you follow a genre you can see a game play on that

[brazen condor]

Guys I was wondering how can I place rect in rect in pygame

and make them responsible

to work like onclick

any ideas how to do it?

[brave arch]

I have the same problem too, have you found the solution?

@brazen condor ?

[vagrant saddle]

that's called a button, here's an example https://github.com/pygame-examples/pygame-examples/tree/main/pgex/examples/buttons

[surreal furnace]

big wins for the quadtree community

runs at about 140 fps

it's using the experimental _sdl2 module from pygame-ce

[runic prism]

Hello, i have a board game made in nodejs. I want to create bots for the same, for that i want to create tensorflow model. What should be i my beginners steps. Also, apart from this can i implement minmax with algorithm pruning (my game layers of choices also it's 4 player game). What would be best approach?

[pine plinth]

this looks so satisfying...

[brazen condor]

I havent

[surreal furnace]

thank you!

it was on a 1k x 1k grid which is why it was so slow, but ordinarily it's much faster than that

oh also in the first video the grain isn't random, the different materials are textured via a clipping mask type of thing

[verbal bloom]

hello ummm im very new to this but umm where do i find bmp images 😭

[brisk yew]

pgex mentioned in the wild

[brisk yew]

this is so cool

[brave arch]

haven't you found the solution yet?

[brazen condor]

Yep

[brave arch]

ok

[surreal furnace]

Have to figure out how to convert the rects from my quadtree into larger polygons (not exciting)

I could make a list of the vertices on the rects and delete any that occur 4 times since they'd be in the middle

But idk how to deal with holes

[peak marsh]

I am trying to build a texted based adventure game with branching outcomes. I am having trouble with adding an audio to a scene that already has an audio. Example, the narrator for the game talks and I need a second audio for the NPC to play right after but the narrator plays and not the NPC audio. Any help is appreciated.

[dry cloak]

Its going to be very hard for someone to help going off only that

What libraries are you using? What is your code?

[pine plinth]

🥳 quadtree

so satisfying

it even fits in a discord message: ```py
from future import annotations
from dataclasses import dataclass
CAPACITY=1
@dataclass
class XY:
x:float
y:float
def matmul(self,other):return XY((self.x+other.x)/2,(self.y+other.y)/2)
@property
def tuple(self):return self.x,self.y
@dataclass
class XYXY:
p00:XY
p11:XY
@property
def p01(self):return XY(self.p00.x,self.p11.y)
@property
def p10(self):return XY(self.p11.x,self.p00.y)
def contains(self,p):return isinstance(p,XY) and self.p00.x<=p.x<self.p11.x and self.p00.y<=p.y<self.p11.y
@dataclass
class Node[T]:
pos:XY
value:T
class QT[T]:
def init(self,area):
self.leaf=True
self.area=area
self.c00=self.c01=self.c10=self.c11=None
self.nodes=[]
def _subdivide(self):
a=self.area
self.c00=QT(XYXY(a.p00,a.p00 @ a.p11))
self.c01=QT(XYXY(a.p00 @ a.p01,a.p01 @ a.p11))
self.c10=QT(XYXY(a.p00 @ a.p10,a.p10 @ a.p11))
self.c11=QT(XYXY(a.p00 @ a.p11,a.p11))
for node in self.nodes:
self.c00.insert(node)
self.c01.insert(node)
self.c10.insert(node)
self.c11.insert(node)
self.nodes=None
self.leaf=False
def insert(self,node):
if node.pos not in self.area:
return
if self.leaf:
if len(self.nodes)<CAPACITY:
self.nodes.append(node)
return
self._subdivide()
self.c00.insert(node)
self.c01.insert(node)
self.c10.insert(node)
self.c11.insert(node)
def draw(s,qt):
if qt.leaf:
pg.draw.polygon(s,(63,63,63),[qt.area.p00.tuple,qt.area.p01.tuple,qt.area.p11.tuple,qt.area.p10.tuple,qt.area.p00.tuple],width=1)
for node in qt.nodes:
s.set_at(node.pos.tuple,(255,0,0))
else:
draw(s,qt.c00)
draw(s,qt.c01)
draw(s,qt.c10)
draw(s,qt.c11)
import pygame as pg
N=512
s=pg.display.set_mode((N+1,N+1))
qt=QT(XYXY(XY(0,0),XY(N,N)))
while True:
for e in pg.event.get():
if e.type==pg.MOUSEMOTION:
n=Node(XY(*e.pos),None)
try:
qt.insert(n)
except Exception:
pass
s.fill((0,0,0))
draw(s,qt)
pg.display.update()

[brisk yew]

that indentation

[surreal furnace]

I assumed it was discord doing that to it

Also what are the [T] things after your class definitions?

[pine plinth]

3.12 typevars

this is what i have now: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/22FQ

looks like this
to draw use left mouse button
to change green area size use mouse wheel

[surreal furnace]

ahhh that's why it wouldn't run I'm still using 3.11

[pine plinth]

you can remove them

it shouldnt break the code

[surreal furnace]

ah alright

what do they do?

[surreal furnace]

I didn't zoom in on this earlier so I didn't notice but holy shit that is a lot of particles

[pine plinth]

!pep 695

[frank field]

**PEP 695 - Type Parameter Syntax**

Status

Final

Python-Version

3.12

Created

15-Jun-2022

Type

Standards Track

[surreal furnace]

thanks!

[high iron]

mouse.position is suposed to be a tuple

[spare canyon]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19he_og567CuUtCJFnVCh8PIjGLZYCCC4/view?usp=drive_link

My minecraft game give me a comment please

[sterile nest]

Thats awesome!
About to try and implement a quadtree for collision in an iso game.

[surreal furnace]

oh nice!

[gloomy nebula]

I am trying to learn how to python through making a pygame game, would someone be willing to tutor me on what I might be doing wrong for a couple minutes? I've been watching YouTube videos on how to do it, and I can copy them to make it work, but when I try to combine them so I can get more features it all falls apart. I am trying to make the button text change color on hover.

[grim abyss]

check #❓｜how-to-get-help show your code. There should be a method on the button widget to set the color of the text that it's displaying? In the game loop check if the mouse cursor position(X,Y) is inside the button widget?

[gloomy nebula]

Thanks for the tip! I am aware of what you're talking about, I attempted to implement that exactly but failed for some reason.

I would post my code there after I poke at it a while more, good idea

[grim abyss]

sure bud. what libs are you importing? pygame?

[final depot]

hey guys! i'm a web game developer and I recently discovered Pyxel, in order to use it as the main technology for my course completion work.

I have in mind to create an interactive game, which throughout the stages and challenges tells a story to the player, in addition to dialogues (something like "Ys Origin" or "Castlevania", you know?).

Is it possible to develop this feature using Pyxel? Create a text box for stories and dialogue?

[gloomy nebula]

Yeah Pygame and Sys only. I made a button class too that I'm importing into a main game py file. It works until I start doing my own thing and combining things I saw on YouTube lol

[grim abyss]

https://pygamewidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/widgets/button/

there's params for text and button color on that button widget

@gloomy nebula what's your button class look like?

!pypi pygame_widgets

[frank field]

pygame-widgets v1.1.5

Widgets for use with Pygame

[pine plinth]

i found an issue in pygame: https://github.com/pygame-community/pygame-ce/issues/2727

[grim abyss]

so now we have pygame, pygame-ce and pygame-sdl2....?

[pine plinth]

i found this when i was testing my quadtree with elliptic search areas
apparently it was pretty easy to implement

and then noticed this when search area width became negative

[brisk yew]

I know of only pygame-ce and pygame

[grim abyss]

first time ive seen pygame-sdl2. im running mxlinux23

[brisk yew]

interesting

[grim abyss]

i'll have to use pip to get pygame-ce. is pygame not maintained anymore?

i see what the deal is from the pygame-ce github page...

[brisk yew]

well, last commit was 2 months ago, but also there's only pretty much only one person doing everything, so yeah

[grim abyss]

impossible challenges?

[grim abyss]

ahh ok

[surreal furnace]

pretty sure there's only the ._sdl2 module?

[surreal furnace]

how's the performance on those?

I'd imagine it would be incredibly slow

just because it's an ellipse

[warm oracle]

what are the difference between thosE?

[teal cargo]

Pygame is the original

Pygame-ce is the community edition

Pygame-sdl2 is the sdl2 vers ig.

SDL: Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a hardware abstraction layer for computer multimedia hardware components.

[surreal furnace]

it's in development still but it's gpu accelerated

not very good at drawing primitives but very good at drawing textures

[teal cargo]

noice

[surreal furnace]

and it can rotate and scale for free

[teal cargo]

That sounds pretty good

[surreal furnace]

it has a dedicated channel in the pygame discord

lemme find the docs rq

[teal cargo]

no need

I can find them myself

[surreal furnace]

alr

it's very different from normal pygame tho

windows are initialised differently

it doesnt use surfaces anymore

etc

[teal cargo]

icic

I main pygame-ce since pygame is down rn.

pygame sdl2 sounds like a good alternative as well.

[surreal furnace]

its way faster too

[surreal furnace]

sdl2 is a module from pygame-ce

you import it using import pygame._sdl2 so you already have it installed

[teal cargo]

I see

[limber veldt]

The examples in pygame-ce are pretty cool, not sure if any of them are demonstrating sdl2 usage though, checking them out...

[pine plinth]

not much worse than rectangle

[surreal furnace]

I have an example demonstrating it 😁 the project im working rn uses it

lemme screen record rq

the world is all textured using images

so the noise texture isn't generated at runtime

I'm using the draw() feature from sdl2 to make basically a clipping mask

[limber veldt]

There's one called video.py using sdl2, neat but experimental

Reminds me of Worms, the old game, how the ground took damage

[surreal furnace]

is that the font one?

[surreal furnace]

yeah it was inspired by that 😁

I'm using a quadtree and all sorts of hellish optimisation techniques that I dragged out of the pits of hell to get a stable 144 fps when the player isnt drawing

this is the quadtree view

[limber veldt]

The video.py one demonstrates opening a couple of windows and draws some lines, not much

[surreal furnace]

ah ok

yeah the primitives are rlly slow for some reason

even just drawing those rects for the quad outlines is super laggy

brings my fps from 300 to 100

[limber veldt]

I haven't implemented any quadtrees yet but some day I'll tackle it

[surreal furnace]

it's pretty fun

there's a lot of things you can do to optimise it which seem kinda minor but which really aren't

[limber veldt]

My Arkanoid could probably use some of that

[surreal furnace]

like caching and dirty quads

[limber veldt]

For culling collisions

[surreal furnace]

is that the robot game?

[limber veldt]

Nah

[surreal furnace]

what's arkanoid?

ahhh it's brick breaker

yeah the quadtree could def help you

the world in the video is 256x256 and I'm culling collisions using the quadtree

[limber veldt]

https://discordapp.com/channels/267624335836053506/660625198390837248/1191737147863081059

[surreal furnace]

a chunk system cuold work fine for your kinda game tho

[surreal furnace]

that looks really cool actually

[limber veldt]

It runs fine without it, but it would run better with it

And that's just a quick demo, every brick doesn't actually have a powerup

[surreal furnace]

idk man merging the quads isn't a very fast function

maybe at a lower scale it would be fine idk

if you had a ton of them it could be worth it

    def fastMergeChildren(self) -> NoReturn:
        if not self.dirty:
            return

        self.dirty = False
        self.quad_cache_dirty = True

        # Return if the current quad has no children
        if not self.children:
            return

        # Recursively try to merge children first
        for child in self.children:
            child.fastMergeChildren()

        # Check if all children have the same tile type
        children_types = np.array([child.tile_type for child in self.children])
        if np.all(children_types == children_types[0]) and self.children[0].tile_type is not None:
            # Merge children into one node and remove them
            self.setTileType(self.children[0].tile_type)
            self.children = None
``` here's how I do it atm

[limber veldt]

I've done a few retro classics, they're fun

[surreal furnace]

yeah and with new technology you can take them so much further

[teal cargo]

Tetris but with more shapes!!

[hearty radish]

can someone tell me what im doing wrong i can't get the user's input and the computers input together

[tough coral]

Hi everyone, my name is livly and I'm a Python programmer. I've been working with Python for 10 years and I'm passionate about helping others learn and use this powerful programming language. I'm excited to get to know everyone on this server and to share my knowledge and experience. I'm always happy to answer questions and help out in any way I can. Thanks for having me!

[wild flame]

im trying to make a nokia styled snake game, can anyone help me figure out why snake's body (list called segments) isnt following the head?

https://pastecord.com/cojucipizo

i have the code on this website

[tough coral]

Okay, let me check it

[wild flame]

tysm

[tough coral]

I can certainly try to help you figure out what's causing the issue with your snake game! Can you provide a bit more information about your code and how the snake is not following the head? For example, is the snake supposed to move when the player presses a certain key, or does it move automatically? Also, are you using any specific libraries or game engines, or are you coding everything from scratch? The more information you can provide, the easier it will be to troubleshoot the issue.
I noticed that you included a link to your code - is that the full code or just a snippet?

[glacial grail]

try printing out computer and user input to see if it's getting it correctly

[granite shale]

Is anyone familiar with working in hyperbolic space? I’m trying to work out how gravity would function. In games like Mario the ground is simply flat and gravity just pulls down, but it seems like the speed you are moving left to right actually affects the VERTICAL speed you will have by the time you hit the ground

As in, a bouncing ball with no horizontal movement works similarly, but if you make a bouncing ball move to the left, it bounces higher and higher each time because it hits the ground with a higher vertical speed than when it last left it

And I believe it ALSO hits the ground at a sharper angle because of holonomy, so each time it hits the ground it also adds horizontal speed?

[prime bison]

I am making a game for the rpi sense hat and its running into a issue where it wont render correctly

its probably in relation to the fact that it can run up to 2000 fps due to it being very barebones

[surreal furnace]

can you enable vsync?

[prime bison]

its for the raspberry pi sense hat

the issue happens on both the sense emu and that sense hat

[surreal furnace]

ah right soz

does capping the fps normally fix it?

[prime bison]

Nope

ive tried that

[surreal furnace]

what specifically is the rendering problem you're having?

[prime bison]

things dont render fully

and some things dont even render at all

[surreal furnace]

I don't think that's related to the fps then

[prime bison]

Well when it renders it calls every function, but then dont complete by the time the next frame or object to render comes around

so it does have a large relation too that

[surreal furnace]

oh are you using threading?

[prime bison]

no

[surreal furnace]

hm

idk then

can you send your code?

[prime bison]

https://github.com/Cgamess/RPIhat-game/

the only use that threading will have is to be used in a movement controller

[sinful field]

anyone knows about the zeroconf module ? i have issues with it

[cinder light]

e

[wild flame]

can anyone help me out with this #1211776285009911869

[glacial lichen]

does pygame have issues with concurrency or its own concurrency methods?

[brisk yew]

no such issues that I know of

could you elaborate on what issues you're facing?

[short widget]

if im making game mods may i post in here?

[glacial lichen]

def main():
    print("Initializing world")
    world_instance = World(640, 480)

    print("Generating Humans")
    world_instance.generatePeople()
    world_instance.generatePeople()

    print("people generated: {}".format(world_instance.people))

    game_loop_thread = threading.Thread(target=world_instance.game_loop)

    # Start the game loop in a separate thread
    game_loop_thread.start()

this was working fine before changing it to threading, changing it to threading still created everything then it goes not responding untill it crashes

Process finished with exit code -805306369 (0xCFFFFFFF)

so i thought the thread would of just started a concurrent processor/thread but is there an additional loop that gets created or something im missing

i've used concurrency before and it worked fine just havnt used it with pygame

    def game_loop(self):
        running = True
        while running:
            for event in pygame.event.get():
                if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                    running = False
            self.draw_world()
        pygame.quit()

[brisk yew]

oh, right, well, there might be certain things that need to be called from the same thread as other things, some event stuff perhaps although that might work fine in a threaded environment as well? not entirely sure, I just know there used to be a special wrapper to handle this, but I think it got fixed, so... yeah
well, there's other stuff still, why are you starting the game loop in a separate thread anyway?

[glacial lichen]

trying to setup a simulation environment with just a 2d overlay for position and activity tracking so i can try to use an ai implementation to simulate behaviour

was more of just an experimental project to see how in depth i could use ai

basically the threading was to keep things operating at the same time

[brisk yew]

for instance event.pump should be called from the same thread that called set_mode
it's implicitly (by default) called by event.get, so consequently it also needs to be called from the same thread that called set_mode

[glacial lichen]

so everything is being called from a main method which creates a world object and world object has people object

[brisk yew]

how about running the ai in a thread instead?

[glacial lichen]

thats probably gonna be a better idea tbh

im essentially setting it up like a factory or builder pattern

so was just first way that popped into my head but yeah i think thats gonna work better thanks

[bleak condor]

Hi!
I`ve just started programming. Can anyone pls suggest a good software for game development using python?

[raven kernel]

arcade, raylib, pyglet are all really good

i use pygame though

[bleak condor]

ok

[golden sun]

anyone know how to make connect 4 using tkinter??

[idle valley]

turtle graphics

[meager thicket]

I don't think tkinter is the best to create a game, but if you must work with it, you can create a canvas that fills your whole window, and then draw whatever your want on this canvas

[golden sun]

Ohh, I'll try to write the code

And share it here cause idk anything 🙂

[prime bison]

Update

35246 fps

[short widget]

trying to mod games with python

[grim abyss]

what are you up to?

[short widget]

modding playstation 1 games

[grim abyss]

you said that, lol. but how are you doing it with Python?

[short widget]

reading and writing memory adresses from ram

[grim abyss]

what are you using? beetle provides a python api?

[short widget]

cheat engine to find the memory addresses and python to manipulate the adresses

[brisk yew]

just keep in mind rule 5

[short widget]

😦

[glass stream]

!rule 5

[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.

[uneven ruin]

would simulations fall under game development ?

[short tapir]

game of life

[grim abyss]

arcade is such a nice lib

[valid bobcat]

import requests


session = requests.Session()
headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
    "Authorization": "Basic eHl6YTc4OTF6clRYTllNbhbbbbbbbbbbbbh"
}

data = {
    "scope":"basic_profile:friends_list:presence",
    "grant_type": "client_credentials", 
    "password": "vgutgvu@123",
    "username": "fyccccc"

}

response = session.post("https://account-public-service-prod.ol.epicgames.com/account/api/oauth/token", headers=headers, data=data)

print(response.text)

headers = {
        "Authorization": "bearer "+response.json()["access_token"]
}
uer = session.get(" https://account-public-service-prod.ol.epicgames.com/account/api/public/account/displayName/vghhgv",headers=headers)


print(uer.text)

[ivory cobalt]

I need help with something, I'm trying to eval a python file located in another path how can I specify this path?

[meager thicket]

is it a relative path or an absolute?

[ivory cobalt]

it's like C:\users\etc

[meager thicket]

so an absolute

[ivory cobalt]

ye

[unreal river]

you mean like run it? how is this related to game dev?

[ivory cobalt]

yes

[ivory cobalt]

now i only write the text

[unreal river]

this is a general question, there are many answers, try asking to other channels. but, here's what I'll do.

with open(r"c:\path\to\file") as f:
    exec(f.read())

[marble jewel]

Isometria Devlog 42 - Sharks, Chest Loot, Better Tiles, and Cozy Buffs! https://youtu.be/pY7UHbRJ0c4

[ivory cobalt]

with open("C:\User\path\to\file", "r") as file: eval(file.read()) this is what i write

[ivory cobalt]

how did you put this?

[unreal river]

oops my bad, i forgot "r":

with open(r"c:\path\to\file", "r") as f:
    eval(f.read())

don't forgot to add r before "c:\path\to\file", this will prevent the escape syntax, and replace the path to your python file

[pine plinth]

alternatively use \\

[brisk yew]

why are you sharing auth tokens, password, and username?

you should change those now if they're your actual ones, also what is your question?

[brisk yew]

why are you trying to exec it?

[ivory cobalt]

when I run the file, after it says the error in the file

[ivory cobalt]

tried already

[dim lantern]

yo guys, im making game launcher and sad i got this error
TypeError: GameLauncher.launch_game() takes 0 positional arguments but 1 was given

[grim abyss]

Are you passing an argument to GameLauncher.launch_game()? show the relevant code.

[dim lantern]

I dont need the help now, code is working

[unreal river]

that looks nice! try expanding it, make it like a todo-list but game-list

[dim lantern]

Okay

Anyway im gonna look forward how to turn it into .exe file

[golden sun]

guys, how do i connect 2 files of codes??

i tried calling the function but it doesnt work

[dawn quiver]

I think you should learn the fundamentals of Python first before going into #game-development .

Suppose you have one file:

calculator.py

import otherfile

print(otherfile.add(1, 1))

and a second file

otherfile.py

def add(first_number, second_number):
    return first_number + second_number

A function allows you to reduce similar code and clutter.

A Python file can also be called a module.

You can import other modules using the import keyword.

The other Python file has to be in the same folder, though. ||(unless you have it installed using pip etc.)||

Also make sure to leave out the .py extension when importing

[dim lantern]

yo guys, whats the module name for this code

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(
    windows=['Window.py'],
    options={'py2exe': {'includes': ['pygame'], 'bundle_files': 1}},
    data_files=[('', ['GDC HUB GDPS\GDC hub PS.exe*', 'GDC HUB GDPS\Resources*'])],
)```
 

It says `ImportError: No module named pygame`

nvm

[obsidian spear]

Come check out my mobile game OverLayne it's fully made with pygame. Try it and give feedback ! https://yan-le-bambi.itch.io/overlayne-mobile

[sterile nest]

@obsidian spear . I dont think the box drops fast enough. There are certain areas that are impossible to get close to

very cool tho

[obsidian spear]

thx

[pine plinth]

crazy fps

[frigid jewel]

That's a lot of tiles.

[frigid jewel]

Have you seen the python-opengl version of minecraft tutorial? I'm wondering if he did anything with chunking. If you haven't seen any of the series it's worth a watch.

episode 8 looks like chunking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5URiEpC5PGw&list=PL6_bLxRDFzoKjaa3qCGkwR5L_ouSreaVP&index=11

Although you might want to start at the first episode for context.

[pine plinth]

wtf

[sterile nest]

sadly he doesnt show how he stores them. It also looks like hes generating small chunks for his examples. Like ..just random noise, then storing them in his RAM

I dont think hes actually loading from a file

and also, the tiles being a lot isnt an issue really, It runs at 500 fps fine since I render correclty. Its just accessing them and storing

[surreal furnace]

my experiences with generating things with noise in python have been that it's extremely slow, so I'm curious as to how he'd achieve runtime generation at a reasonable speed

ofc I could have just been implementing it badly

[sterile nest]

I hate to say this, but I think you might have implemented it badly...im sorry....but it should be reletively fast

[surreal furnace]

I was using this

def noise_terrain_generation(world, screensize, seed):
    print("Generating noise terrain...")
    for x in tqdm(range(screensize.width)):
        for y in tqdm(range(screensize.height), leave=False):
            noise_val = noise.snoise2(x * FREQUENCY[0] + seed, y * FREQUENCY[1] + seed)
            noise_val += (y / screensize.height) ** 2 - 0.2
            if noise_val > 0.2:
                world.insert((x, y), tiles.STONE)
            elif noise_val > -0.1:
                world.insert((x, y), tiles.DIRT)

so I can't see many massive points of issue

except maybe world.insert is slow

it shouldn't be though

[pine plinth]

looping over pixels in python is a bad idea almost always

[surreal furnace]

how would you do it?

I'm not looping over pixels also

[sterile nest]

I mean...thats widthxheight

[surreal furnace]

It's a quadtree

[sterile nest]

but you're using width and height as range values

so its every single pixel

[surreal furnace]

I could have a look at parallelisation maybe

yeah

because the world is that dense

each pixel is a tile

it's fine at runtime it's just the worldgen that's slow

there's not rlly another way to do it afaik

[sterile nest]

do you have dynamic world gen?>

[surreal furnace]

nope

it's just at startup

so its not that much of an issue

it doesn't rlly take that long here

but that's on my pc

and it could be faster yk

the world's only 256x256

[sterile nest]

ill implement noise gen into mine

[surreal furnace]

if you're using the noise library, I've found that snoise2 is leagues faster than pnoise2 and has really similar results

screw perlin noise simplex noise is my new best friend

[sterile nest]

bruh I cant even find the docs for this lib

[surreal furnace]

?

the noise lib?

[sterile nest]

And on thier page they say to use help(noise) only to be greated by the worlds most ambigous help message

yes

[surreal furnace]

I didnt have that much trouble

basically

[sterile nest]

can you send me it?

[surreal furnace]

I mean I didnt use actual docs

I used the pycharm hints

and the documentation in the actual functions

[sterile nest]

bruh

[surreal furnace]

but basically

noise.snoise2 or whatever form of noise you want to use (p/s noise and then the number that idk what it means) can have 1 or 2 numbers passed in as a position

so you could just do noise.snoise2(x) or noise.snoise2(x, y)

[sterile nest]

def noise2(self, x, y):
its only x, y

[surreal furnace]

oh rlly? for me it said i could use a single number

huh

[sterile nest]

idk.. im looking through src code rn

[surreal furnace]

maybe I'm on a deprecated version rn

[sterile nest]

https://github.com/caseman/noise/blob/master/perlin.py

[surreal furnace]

who knoise

who noise

[sterile nest]

line 155

[surreal furnace]

ah ok so the number is the amount of arguments

I must have remembered wrong then idk

soz

[sterile nest]

import noise


for i in range(10):
    x = noise.pnoise2(1+i,2)
    print(x)
# 0,0,0,0,0,0....

``` getting all 0s

bad lib

[surreal furnace]

oh yeah it needs to be a float I think

idk

or like

not a whole number

idk

[sterile nest]

lame

[half flare]

Hello. I'm having a bit of a dilemma. I can't decide if I wanna use pygame to make my game or use something like PyQt or tkinter and like, write everything from the ground up. The obvious choice would be to use pygame. I was thinking of making something like the classic DOS SimAnt game by Maxis(?). SO I wanna use the same type of thing with the multiple windows that you had in game and such. Can anyone give me a few pointers, please ?

[vagrant saddle]

The obvious choice is to use pygame-ce , and probably pygame_gui for the gui parts

[half flare]

Okay so it can do all that ? I don't have to like, cross over libraries and make things unnecessarily complicated ?

I wouldn't say I'm new to python and pygame. I have tons of failed projects. I just struggle to get into the direction to get started.

[vagrant saddle]

no cross over, no porting nightmare, and web play for free

[half flare]

That's great to know. Thank you. I appreciate the help.

[vagrant saddle]

( just don't nest update loops, use game states )

[half flare]

I'll get that sorted when I get to it. xD

[shut geyser]

hi how do i drop in a python or text file o show the code

[lunar venture]

!paste

[frank field]

Pasting large amounts of code

If your code is too long to fit in a codeblock in Discord, you can paste your code here:
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/

After pasting your code, save it by clicking the Paste! button in the bottom left, or by pressing CTRL + S. After doing that, you will be navigated to the new paste's page. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[shut geyser]

i did use that but it says its too long

[lunar venture]

There should be a button to copy a URL which you share in this channel

Not the code within the platform

[shut geyser]

oh ok

this https://paste.pythondiscord.com/6L7Q

[lunar venture]

What about it

[shut geyser]

it freezes every time i run it

can you help me fix it chatgt 4 won't fix it properly for some reason

[lunar venture]

Well I don't see the main loop function being called so that may be it

[shut geyser]

oh ok

[lunar venture]

What do you mean by freezing though

Currently it's just setting up a screen and two turtles, one for the snake, one for the fruit

[shut geyser]

like when i paste it into python and run it, it crashes

[lunar venture]

Oh and scores

[shut geyser]

hmm whats wrong with scores

[lunar venture]

Is there any error? Does the window just close?

[lunar venture]

Nothing

[shut geyser]

this is the error code https://paste.pythondiscord.com/7JCQ

[lunar venture]

You need to save your code in a .py file and run the .py file

[shut geyser]

oh ok

now the python file isnt working i saved the code as a .py buts it keeps closing

[lunar venture]

Any error?

[shut geyser]

no it just closes as soon as i open it

[unreal river]

why are you running it through IPython instead in a file?

[shut geyser]

hmm whats ipython

[unreal river]

it's an indentation error

[unreal river]

when you type python in the terminal and paste your code

[shut geyser]

oh then what do i do

[unreal river]

place the code in a file and run it via python your_file.py

[shut geyser]

in what file

[unreal river]

create a file with any name then paste the code in it

[shut geyser]

ok

it worked thanks

[scenic bison]

what are ways to implement ludo board game

[fading whale]

The first thing I'd focus on is deciding how to represent a state of the game.

I'd probably represent a state by the positions of each of the tokens.

I actually think it might make sense to represent the position of a token by how many steps of progress it has made from its starting position. (0 means the token is not in play yet; 1 means it's on the corresponding starting square; 2 means it's in the square after the starting square; etc. And 59 would mean the token has reached the finishing square in the middle.)

That would make it easy to advance a token along its route, but it does make it more difficult to determine whether two tokens of different colours occupy the same location.

But you could write a function for that, like: ```py
type Color = str
type Progress = int
type TokenState = tuple[Color, Progress]

def same_square(token1: TokenState, token2: TokenState) -> bool:
...

You'd probably want a function to map a token's state to its global position: ```py
def position(token: TokenState) -> int:
...

The global position doesn't have to be an integer; it could be represented some other way.

[ivory remnant]

hello:)

I want to make a natural selection simulator, and i don't know where to start can enyone help me?

[fading whale]

This looks like a fun way to learn about genetic algorithms: https://www.codingame.com/playgrounds/334/genetic-algorithms/history

This YouTube channel also has videos on this kind of thing, although I think they're more high-level rather than getting into implementation details: https://www.youtube.com/@PrimerBlobs/videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZGbIKd0XrM

[neon flame]

maybe someone is interested in this, i finished it recently: https://github.com/772/waypoint_based_destructible_terrain

[surreal furnace]

Oh that's really cool!

How does it work?

[shut geyser]

hi I wanted to add sound effects to my game but when i added in the function it crashed the game when i open it

[dawn quiver]

Show me the code please

Do you have it in the game files?

[shut geyser]

ok one sec

[dawn quiver]

was it pygame.mixer.Sound()

[shut geyser]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/2TPQ

[shut geyser]

yes

[dawn quiver]

What was the error?

And what did it say and which sound file are you talking about?

[shut geyser]

it just crashes when i open it

[dawn quiver]

Any error messages?

I think the only thing wrong with the code is that the file path of the sounds are too complex

Put them in the same file as your game

If that doesn't work, find a new sound effect

Can someone help me on how to rotate a sprite in pygame so it doesn't distort its pixels and lag the game

[unreal river]

You're calling a function named gameLoop which isn't defined, is that everything in the code?

[unreal river]

I also saw that there's another while-loop in a possible while-loop ig

[proven shore]

Hi, I want to make a game that the player tries to draw on screen, then compare that draw to another,

How to do that comparation?

[dawn quiver]

Make a normal pygame game loop without the screen fill and draw a circle everytime the mouse is pressed

The thing i don't know is how to change the color of the circle using a slider

[ivory dragon]

computer = random.choice(['rock', 'paper', 'scissors'])

[ornate ocean]

u have to set computer to random.choice

[hearty radish]

Thank you

[dawn quiver]

How do i randomize a timer in pygame?

[vagrant saddle]

only one ?

[dawn quiver]

Yes

Because the timers i use to clone objects have predictable patterns

[vagrant saddle]

you better use an alarm clock then

alarm = now + random(delay) ; if now > alarm: do thing, set new alarm

[dawn quiver]

How do i use alarm in pygame

[vagrant saddle]

make one with time.time(), here's one https://github.com/pygame-web/pygbag/blob/96543b864887cc45abe08833d9915d5eddd4a66f/src/pygbag/aio.py#L68

[dawn quiver]

I think i have to research more

[vagrant saddle]

alarm clock is simpler because it does not involve threads and it will also work in async code

[dawn quiver]

but will it freeze

Freeze the game while the things are being repeated

I use the other time methods and it freezes the game

Talk to you later

[vagrant saddle]

yes you should investigate async programming

where you can span a task on mulitple frames without stopping main render

[dawn quiver]

How does async programming work

[obtuse patio]

guys can someone hop on a call w/ me so they can help me with why my pygame images are not blitting to the screen

just dm me so we can call, would really appreciate it.

[limber veldt]

Clear Code has a second youtube channel named Atlas. On that channel are many short tutorials, one of them is a Timer() class for pygame, look it up, it isn't so complicated as the one shared above

[grim abyss]

giving turtle a workout!

I finally was able to get planar working so I can continue to work on this some more...

[vagrant saddle]

though it is best to avoid timer class for portability and future usage, learning async is mandatory for games

[limber veldt]

I disagree for pygame

[vagrant saddle]

maybe for pygame but my assert is true for pygame-ce

[limber veldt]

pygame-ce is included in my disagreement

[vagrant saddle]

btw i'm maintening the wasm part of pygame-ce

[limber veldt]

And as far as I can tell, most youtube tutorials also disagree, since none of them use it

[limber veldt]

Lemme also say thank you to all those giving us their hardwork, I love pygame...ce too

[vagrant saddle]

the ideal way would be alarm clock => async task , it helps solve a lot of problems later, Timer being in C it is hard to adapt it to real needs

[limber veldt]

Perhaps as I continue learning, these advantages will become more clear to me, you're obviously more skilled than me and I'm open to learning how to use this, do you have any tutorials showing how to implement it?

[vagrant saddle]

not sure about tutorials, but i guess problems with timers are likely to be studied in any networked game that requires clock sync, ( maybe a racing game tutorial ? )

[limber veldt]

I'll keep an eye out for something then, it's interesting

I know how to use custom events and pygame.time and how to make a timer class, but more options is good

[vagrant saddle]

i'll try to make a sample for a networked clock if there's nothing about around

[limber veldt]

That would be nice, maybe a quick demo of simply displaying some text or changing a color on a timer

[mossy helm]

What libraries to use for python snake game except keyboard, os and time?

[vagrant saddle]

for this snake, you only need Panda3D 😄

[umbral girder]

is storing save data in multiple text files (5-20) bad?
asking based on opinion rather than sheer technicality

[young gate]

if by text files you mean .txt files then yes 1000%

it is bad

it makes your game so easily hackable

[umbral girder]

i do Not care about "hackability"
it's a singleplayer game

[whole gull]

Hi

[young gate]

in that case, it's largely up to you
the main problem with lots of files is that loading and saving will become slow if there are too many large files
why do you need 5-20 save files?

is it like generating worlds like minecraft or something?

[umbral girder]

i'm working on a "port" of rimworld to a python console
i'm currently working on storing colonist stats persistently, along with stats about the colony

[young gate]

"port" as in a rimworld clone?? goddamn that is a big project
if so sure
it's not like you would ever have all that many colonists
I doubt each individual text file would grow beyond a few KBs
it should be alright

colonists are basically just disposable serfs anyways lol so most of the time they don't live long

[umbral girder]

i plan on balancing the game for 10-20 colonists rather than 4-6

[young gate]

so they won't accumulate too much data

[young gate]

in my experience at least

[umbral girder]

dear god. i suffer emotional damage when one of my tamed dogs die, let alone a colonist

[young gate]

yeah that probably won't take too much

[whole gull]

When you create a game how you do with the graphics please I 'm very bad in art 🎨 😅

[young gate]

my playstyle for dwarf fortress and most colony games is the same - onwards, my brave dwarven ~~slaves ~~citizens!
there will always be more migrants after all

[umbral girder]

i've got this MASSIVE base stats generator that is just a brick wall of...

pseudocode because i'm lazy,

TEMP_SHOOTING = random(0,4) - random(0,quality)
TEMP_MELEE = random(0,4) - random(0,quality)

so on and so forth

for every stat

[young gate]

in dwarf fortress tho this causes problems with dozens of corpses causing unhappy thoughts

[young gate]

well damn

that could be done with a loop couldn't it??

store the stats in a dictionary and try looping through it

[umbral girder]

for a base "modern" type colonist, i'm having different base ranges for different stats

for example, cooking will be 1-6, and "quality" will INCREASE such a skill
but shooting will be 0-4, and be DECREASED by quality

[umbral girder]

it is stored in a dictionary, thankfully

i have the dictionary set as like. TEMP_STATS or something
when i handle a colonist's stats, i will load from their named text file (e.g. Markus.txt) and push it into TEMP_STATS for certain calculations like combat and working

TEMP_STATS also carries the values for generating a new pawn
(since only one function actually happens at a time i'm not worried about another function "corrupting" the temp data)

are you typing an essay or are you flabberghasted

[young gate]

well i don't understand the source code
but maybe i will have a better understanding soon
i am planning on a dwarf fortress "clone" (basically just a very barebones version of it)
i love the way each dwarf citizen has their own thoughts, likes, dislikes, skills and relations and can even change their personality based on the latest events

I remember there being a 10 year old child who went insane because he was not getting enough booze in one of my fortresses

[umbral girder]

based

[young gate]

so i solved the problem

[umbral girder]

did you send them on a trip into a cave, or give them booze

[young gate]

by having my workers build a wall around him and let him slowly starve to death

[young gate]

nothing so merciful as the cave

that's a quick death
troublemakers must suffer

[umbral girder]

you aren't allowed within 20 miles of my text-based rimworld colony

[young gate]

ha ha

the main thing in these colony sims is the stories after all

there's no story without a little catastrophe or trauma

[umbral girder]

true!

fun fact: prisoners can get a hold of orbital targetters

You get a report from the appointed Administrator of the colony.
"Theta, an orbital bombardment targeter is missing from storage after the prison break, and..."

Your aerial radar lights up with a cloud of blips.

[young gate]

oh damn that's cool
like the "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" game

[umbral girder]

yes!

[young gate]

text based rimworld
pretty cool

gtg now
bye

[umbral girder]

in my "port" you are an AI core
depending on the start you choose, you may be worshipped as a god by tribals, or you may be part of a ship that crashed and the survivors decide to keep you around

[umbral girder]

eeee

[obtuse patio]

guys can someone hop on a call w/ me so they can help me with why my pygame images are not blitting to the screen

[fair dust]

Hello I'm new to python and I'm want to build a simple game where should i start, any advice?

[meager thicket]

start with pygame, a simple project like a flappy bird or a snake

[fair dust]

I'm using Pydroid 3 on my mobile phone as an IDE can i do it using mobile phone?

[meager thicket]

I don't think it is possible

[unreal river]

it is possible, I have tried it a few years ago, you just have to make some optimizations

[fair dust]

ok thanks

[vagrant saddle]

on mobile you can use pygame-web to deploy your project eg https://pygame-web.github.io/showroom/pygame-scripts/org.pygame.touchpong.html

[fair dust]

Thanks

[simple summit]

can you make mods using python?

[tranquil girder]

mods for what?

[meager thicket]

mods for which game?

[simple summit]

tbh im not really sure lol

rec room maybe?

[meager thicket]

it depends if the game engine/modding tools support python
But I don't think so, because python is not really popular in game dev

[brisk yew]

why not just use pygame.time.get_ticks() or event scheduling

[vagrant saddle]

async event scheduling is ok

[brisk yew]

I more meant pygame.time.set_timer

[peak marsh]

I have a game project i'm doing just for fun and its basically the heads up game, you pick a category and your team has to get you to guess the word that shows up. I have most of it working to my liking but the game doesn't remember the words that show up and sometimes displays them twice across two rounds. So for example if you pick the category "music" it does a good job randomizing the list and not repeating but if another team picks that same category the program doesn't remember what it showed the first team. I tried asking chatgpt but everything it suggests doesn't seem to work. I am using Python and not pygame if anyone can give me direction that'll be great. Also to be honest I am relatively new.

[simple summit]

ok

[vagrant saddle]

so to make it more popular pygame-web now supports raylib + gles 3 see https://pygame-web.github.io/showroom/pypad_git.html?python3.13#src/test_raylib_es3.py (shader from planetis-m)

[meager thicket]

Oh I didn't know
Good to know, thx

[simple summit]

wait

is it possible to make a multiplayer game in python

[vagrant saddle]

it is

[simple summit]

oh my god

[vagrant saddle]

and also serverless

[simple summit]

oh

so no then

[vagrant saddle]

why no ?

[simple summit]

serverless

idk what that means

i thought you meant like without a server

[vagrant saddle]

serverless has less cost for brewing mmo , you don' t need expensive server

[simple summit]

wdym?

[vagrant saddle]

and you can connect more users

[simple summit]

wdym by serverless/

?

[vagrant saddle]

mesh topology (p2p) instead or star topology ( server centric )

[simple summit]

sorry what?

im kinda new to coding

[vagrant saddle]

well networking is another world after coding 😄

[simple summit]

lol

[meager thicket]

The connections are only between client, not rdlated to a centre server

[simple summit]

oh i think i get it

so you would be basically running the server off of your computer

right?

[vagrant saddle]

yeah you could

[simple summit]

so umm

you guys want to?

ya know, maybe try to do it?

[vagrant saddle]

yeah i need to make a network sample

[simple summit]

whatever that means ok. what libraries would be needed. I might be able to quickly cook up something in pygame

lol

[vagrant saddle]

just make a small ecs where each entity is a moving square

[simple summit]

oh wait hang on

[vagrant saddle]

i'll take care of netcode

[meager thicket]

I think I'm currently with too much projects, so it would be hard for me
But I think, in order to progess efficiently, you should start with a simple game and then add a network feature

[simple summit]

how would we share code?

[simple summit]

yeah

[vagrant saddle]

gist.github.com is pygame-web runnable, rawgit too

[simple summit]

actually maybe not

i think im too inexperienced for this tbh

[meager thicket]

@vagrant saddle are you the pygame-web developer ?

[vagrant saddle]

i'm author of pygbag, and also an emscripten cpython referenced expert

pygame-web is a mix of various projects, some as old as 2016 Panda3D port to web

[meager thicket]

Okk

[haughty anvil]

Hello Everyone , I am a student in my 2nd year of engineering . I have ok-ish knowledge of game development but good knowledge in c,c++ , python and a little bit of ML . This is my first trying GSOC . Can anyone help me on how do i apply and how do i contribute?? and how does the process go in general?

trying to apply for enigma but am open to others

[raven acorn]

Hi everyone, does anyone know How to add cut scenes using pygame with slightly or almost not modifying the rest of my code lol

[sand stump]

hello

[dawn quiver]

Just use variables

Can someone help me how to code invisibility frames everytime a sprite is hit by another sprite and that sprite flashes red

[dry cloak]

"Can anyone tell me how to add a feature without writing more code"

It depends entirely on how you have structured your code as to how much needs to be done

[gloomy nebula]

Can someone help me figure out why I am unable to get my movement system working properly? It's supposed to be similar to "Fire emblem" where you can click the player and drag him onto any square on the grid where he stays until the next turn (like chess). I can drag the player around the grid, but it hovers over the wrong grid square when moving slightly too far to the right side of any particular square... It just looks janky

https://github.com/Winiski/Share/blob/main/sprites-test.py

[split oasis]

Anyone have a playlist for beginners

[gloomy nebula]

There is a youtube video series by "KidsCanCode" that is great for beginners

Check out his playlists

[vital hamlet]

Can't decide between using terminal, tkinter or pygame for making a retro text adventure rpg. Terminal the simplest prolly?

Or simpler to emulate / fake a terminal in pygame for the retro effect? 🤣

[brisk yew]

That's not going to be simpler than just using an existing terminal

[umbral girder]

can't go wrong with classic terminal

but if you want some Special Effects or 4th wall shenanigans, you'll want something else

PHYS
Basic physical impacts. Sharp, blunt, or other, as well as missing parts.

ADDITIONS
Implants, bionic limbs, etcetera.

PAIN
Pain from physical injuries. Directly resulting from physical injuries, but effects are calculated after bionic enhancements.

PSYCH
Physical influences from psychological sources, such as mood or inspiration.

CHEMICAL
Stat impacts from drugs and chemical imbalances, such as clinical depression, adrenaline from combat/injuries, or drug withdrawals. Far more powerful than being "determined" or being in a bad mood, for better or worse.
Will likely culminate in work speed or mood fx outside of combat.

copied this from my design doc
Health Differentials, or HeDiffs: Rather than storing every stat about every pawns’ health situations at all times, we only grab things from a library of injury types that make them mechanically different from the baseline state.

writing up a table of hediff types for handling health.
i am taking "inspiration" from RimWorld here, but i'm not simulating every left pinky toe or differentiating between gunshots and stab wounds
does it make sense so far?

[vagrant saddle]

terminal ftw ! https://github.com/salt-die/batgrl also pygame-ce has a terminal emulator on which zengl can apply any retro shader you want 😉

[worldly jay]

please try not to break your tongue

from random import randint
item = int
playerPos = 1
mapull = []
for i in range(int(input('размер поля: '))):
mapull.append(randint(1, 9))
mapull.append(0)
print('поле созданно')
while playerPos != len(mapull):
print(f'{str(mapull[0:playerPos])} | {str(mapull[playerPos:len(mapull)])} ; {item}')
goto = input('player| ')
if goto == '<':
playerPos -= mapull[playerPos - 1]
elif goto == '>':
playerPos += mapull[playerPos]
elif goto == '<<':
item = mapull[playerPos - 1]
elif goto == '>>':
item = mapull[playerPos]
elif goto == '<<<':
playerPos -= mapull[item - 1]
item = int
elif goto == '>>>':
playerPos += mapull[item]
item = int
if playerPos > len(mapull) or playerPos <=0:
print('Проигрыш')
exit()
else:
print('Ты победил!!! Вот печенька')

[slow copper]

Started questioning my existence after seeing the second line itself

[worldly jay]

Code:
x = int
print(x)
run:
class int
Done program

[slow copper]

but why

[stiff star]

Hello, everyone

[hollow shuttle]

isn't this kinda illegal 💀

is there a better way to implement y axis collisions so that the player does not fall through the ground tiles

        for obj in game.objects:
            if isinstance(obj, Tile):
                if self.mask.overlap(obj.mask, (self.x - obj.x, self.y - obj.y)) and self.speed[1] >= 0:
                    self.speed[1] = 0
                    self.y = obj.y - self.image.get_height()

                else:
                    self.speed[1] += 0.1
            if isinstance(obj, BaseLevelEnemy):
                if self.state["Combat"] == "Attack" and abs(int(self.x - obj.x)) <= 100:
                    game.objects.append(Text(f"You killed {obj}", 500, 300, 50))
                    game.objects.remove(obj)
                    self.state["Combat"] = "Idle"

                if self.mask.overlap(obj.mask, (self.x - obj.x, self.y - obj.y)):
                    game.objects.append(Text(f"You died", 500, 300, 50))```

this is the bug i have with this code

[meager thicket]

this is clearly a cheat programm
Or at least botting in a game which do not authorize it

[worldly jay]

потому, что это бета версия моей игры и проще написать 'int' и не париться вместо '0' и исправлять баги.

[lost apex]

hi i'm currently trying to make a simple platformer game and my jump isn't working properly and i have been trying to fix this for ages. would anyone be able to help?

here's the code

class Character(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, image_path, width, height, speed, gravity, jump_height):
        super().__init__()
        self.image = pygame.image.load(image_path).convert_alpha()  # Load image
        self.image = pygame.transform.scale(self.image, (width, height))  # Scale image to desired dimensions
        self.image.set_colorkey(WHITE)  # Set white as transparent color
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect()  # Get rect of the image
        self.speed = speed  # Set speed
        self.gravity = gravity  # Set gravity
        self.vertical_speed = 0  # Set vertical speed
        self.jump_height = jump_height  # Set maximum jump height
        self.is_jumping = False  # Initialize jumping state

    def moveLeft(self):
        self.rect.x -= self.speed

    def moveRight(self):
        self.rect.x += self.speed

    def startJump(self):
        if not self.is_jumping:
            self.is_jumping = True
            self.vertical_speed = -self.speed  # Move up with speed

    def endJump(self):
        if self.vertical_speed < 0:
            self.vertical_speed = 0  # Stop moving up if jump is ended prematurely

    def update(self):
        # Apply gravity
        self.vertical_speed += self.gravity
        self.rect.y += self.vertical_speed

        # Check for collisions with platforms
        platform_collisions = pygame.sprite.spritecollide(self, platforms, False)
        for platform in platform_collisions:
        # If character is moving downward, stop falling and set character above the platform
            if self.vertical_speed > 0:
                self.rect.bottom = platform.rect.top
                self.vertical_speed = 0
                self.is_jumping = False
            # If character is moving upward, stop jumping
            elif self.vertical_speed < 0:
                self.rect.top = platform.rect.bottom
                self.vertical_speed = 0

       # Boundaries for the screen
        if self.rect.left < 0:  # Left boundary
            self.rect.left = 0
        elif self.rect.right > screen_width:  # Right boundary
            self.rect.right = screen_width
        if self.rect.top < 0:  # Top boundary
            self.rect.top = 0
        elif self.rect.bottom > screen_height:  # Bottom boundary
            self.rect.bottom = screen_height
            self.is_jumping = False  # Reset jumping state if touching bottom of the screen


# Create player character
player = Character('grey mouse.png', 50, 50, 5, 0.2, 30)
# player2 = Character('brown mouse.png', 50, 50, 5, 0.2, 10)

# Define platform class
class Platform(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, x, y, image):
        super().__init__()
        self.image = image
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
        self.rect.x = x
        self.rect.y = y

# Create platforms
platforms = pygame.sprite.Group()

def generate_platforms():
    platforms.empty()
    # Define specific coordinates for each platform
    platform_coords = [
        (0, 487),
        (300, 400),
        (150, 450),
        (400, 100),
        (500, 500)
    ]
    for x, y in platform_coords:
        platform = Platform(x, y, platform_image)
        platforms.add(platform)


generate_platforms()

# Game loop
running = True
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
allspritesList = pygame.sprite.Group()
allspritesList.add(player)
# allspritesList.add(player2)

while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False
        elif event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
            if event.key == pygame.K_UP:
                player.startJump()

    keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
    if keys[pygame.K_LEFT] and player.rect.x >= 0:
        player.moveLeft()
    if keys[pygame.K_RIGHT] and player.rect.x <= screen_width - 50:
        player.moveRight()

    allspritesList.update()
    player.update()  # Pass platforms group to the update method

    screen.fill(WHITE)
    screen.blit(g_screen, (0, 0))

    allspritesList.draw(screen)
    platforms.draw(screen)

    pygame.display.flip()
    clock.tick(60)  # Limit frame rate to 60 FPS

[worldly meadow]

so im sad to see this happen. not sure if anyone follows, but this woman spent 10 years making this game, and she had an epic launch campaign, even creating a real life launch trailer. If anyone can support her, yay. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRT1fxCQ/

https://youtu.be/tmZ8o1kSm24?si=S4Sn3L3zdBHg3kbT

[rare lily]

did anyone know how i can run localhost a exported game with pygbag? So i can included it on a js (vue) webside?

[safe maple]

What if she's just using it to gain attention and followers? I mean EA doesn't care about small timers

Ngl it's a rather nice game lot of effort was put into it

[surreal furnace]

socket?

[rare lily]

?

[surreal furnace]

I mean she did show a screenshot of her game being bumped down by all the ea releases

[surreal furnace]

the library

or module idk

ah hold on my internets cutting out sorry

ok yeah

hold on

https://realpython.com/python-sockets/

[bleak moat]

try playing my first game on play store, this is a relaxing casual game 👌🏻

[tranquil girder]

Cool. Did you make it with Python?

[north fjord]

Здарова шелуха

[tiny oyster]

anyone familiar with spatial hashing and c++ here?

[stone ibex]

could someone help me? I'm trying to make a repeating box but it stops after it shows the second one.

I've put this in update

box.x -= 10
if box.x == -500:
boxx = random.randint(1100,2000)
box.x = boxx

[brisk yew]

this is a Python server, but I can point you to this resource: https://conkerjo.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/spatial-hashing-implementation-for-fast-2d-collisions/

[limber veldt]

You set the new x position randomly but only reset on an 'is equal to -500' condition. What if the new random position doesn't end with 0? It will never get to -500

Either change the condition or change the randomness. Maybe multiply random.randint(110, 200) * 10 to make sure your box.x stays on increments of 10 pixels

[hasty void]

Hi. Im trying to make a silly game that start with three carrots on the screen, and rhe user is suposed to eat those carrots, and whenever we eat one, it turns gray and a new carrot adds up. Now the carrots that we turn gray, we cant eat them and they'll make the game stop. The used must alwayb be in movement as the player only controls the direction. Could I send the code I made so far? Its not working but, but I ope I'd get help with it

I'll send it anyway

import pygame as pg
from pygame.locals import (K_UP, K_DOWN, K_LEFT, K_RIGHT)
import math as m
import random as rd

vindu = pg.display.set_mode([600,500])



class Spilleren:
    def __init__(self, x, y, fart, farge, radius, vinduet):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.fart = fart
        self.farge = farge
        self.radius = radius
        self.vinduet = vinduet
        

    def figuren(self):
        pg.draw.circle(self.vinduet, self.farge, (self.x, self.y), self.radius)   
  
    def finnAvstand(self, carrotx, carroty):
   
        xAvstand2 = (self.x - carrotx)**2  # x-avstand i andre
        yAvstand2 = (self.y - carroty)**2  # y-avstand i andre
        sentrumsavstand = m.sqrt(xAvstand2 + yAvstand2)

        radiuser = self.radius
        avstand = sentrumsavstand - radiuser

        return avstand
    def flytt(self, taster):
        if taster[K_UP]:
            self.y -= self.fart
        if taster[K_DOWN]:
            self.y += self.fart
        if taster[K_LEFT]:
            self.x -= self.fart
        if taster[K_RIGHT]:
            self.x += self.fart

class Carrot():
    def __init__(self, farge, corner1, corner2, corner3, vinduet):
        self.farge = farge
        self.corner1 = corner1
        self.corner2 = corner2
        self.corner3 = corner3
        self.vinduet = vinduet
    def figuren(self):
        pg.draw.polygon(self.vinduet, self.farge, ((self.corner1),(self.corner2),(self.corner3)))
        

spiller = Spilleren(300, 250,0.1, (225, 225, 225), 20, vindu)
spillerbaby = Spilleren(300, 230, 0.1, (225, 225, 225), 14, vindu)

sonic = Carrot((225, 127, 39), (200,180), (225, 180), (230,220), vindu)
fulan = Carrot((225, 127, 39), (350,420), (375, 420), (380,460), vindu)
sivqwert = Carrot((225, 127, 39), (500,60), (525, 60), (530, 100), vindu)

fortsett = True
while fortsett:
    for event in pg.event.get():
        if event.type == pg.QUIT:
            fortsett = False
    
    vindu.fill((0,0,0))
    trykkede_taster = pg.key.get_pressed()
    sonic.figuren()
    fulan.figuren()
    sivqwert.figuren()

    spiller.figuren()
    spiller.flytt(trykkede_taster)
    spillerbaby.figuren()
    spillerbaby.flytt(trykkede_taster)

    hinder = []

    xretning = rd.randint(10,100)
    yretning = rd.randint(10,100)  

    for carrot in [sonic, fulan, sivqwert]:
        avstand = spiller.finnAvstand(carrot.corner2[0], carrot.corner3[1])
        if avstand <= 0:
            carrot.farge = (50,50,50)
            pg.draw.polygon(vindu, (225, 127, 39),(500-xretning,60-yretning), ((525-xretning, 60-yretning), (530-xretning, 100-yretning)))
            if carrot.farge == (50,50,50):
                hinder.append(carrot)
   for ond in hinder:
      avstanden = spiller.finnAvstand(ond.corner2[0], ond.corner3[1])
      if avstanden <= 0:
        fortsett = False
   pg.display.flip()
pg.quit()

[stone ibex]

tysm no it works

[dawn quiver]

Can someone help me how to code a code where the player shoots a bullet and the bullet moves in a direction based on its rotation

[dry cloak]

2d rotational movement can be achieved by

x += math.sin(rotation) * movement_speed
y += math.cos(rotation) * movement_speed

[dawn quiver]

Thanks

How do i apply the x and y in rotation

[dry cloak]

Im sorry but i do not understand what you are trying to say

What do you mean by you want to apply the x and y in rotation?

[pine plinth]

this isnt correct, i think

[dry cloak]

Depends

You would want to subtract from the y if y is up

But normally y is down

[marble jewel]

Isometria Devlog 43 - Guns, Crabber, Context Steering, Better Trees! https://youtu.be/4RiVSdrxs1Q

[abstract forum]

Just subscribed and liked good vlogs but make them longer than five minute like 8 and it’s way too calm and the more you post it’s gonna get recommended also good game

[marble jewel]

thanks, what would you extend them with?

and by calm you mean my voice?

[abstract forum]

No the video

[marble jewel]

you want graphics and things zooming around more or just more action in general?

[abstract forum]

It’s like calming reminds me of decduck

[marble jewel]

so wait being "way to calm" is a good thing here?

as in dont change it?

[abstract forum]

No look a am not a YouTuber or influencer or nothing but look at bigger ones like Dani and dev duck and banji and try to find a middle

[abstract forum]

Yeah kind of

But I mean try to be more characterful than a robot

No offense

[marble jewel]

gotcha

no worries

[abstract forum]

Just feedback

[abstract forum]

Good luck though

[marble jewel]

I could be a bit more self critical, maybe that could be humorous or vibrant

[abstract forum]

Yeah

Just to be more entertaining

I like the style it’s calm and you shouldn’t change all of it if you look at someone like Dani a really popular dev vloger you will see he has a lot of character and you just lack that a little but keep your style being like calm means good sometimes

[fallen atlas]

Sup humans! Btw it's my first time learning python, I been working on a game, for maybe 2 or 3 days haha, so ye

[limber veldt]

Yummy, pi > cake

[gloomy nebula]

Oh hey y'all, I am trying to create a movement system in pygame for a turn based strategy game similar to Fire Emblem. I managed to get it generating a movement radius around my player sprite on a tile map but then it can move anywhere on the map with another click instead of just within the movement radius. Would someone be interested in helping me figure out what I'm doing wrong?

[cunning thorn]

what i have to do ?

[unreal heath]

did you initialize it?

[sterile nest]

I think maybe going over the more technical changes and maybe talking more in depth. I like what you have atm, but it feels like a super quick devlog, which is nice, but I think you get perks at 8 min mark? Im not sure

[marble jewel]

perks?

[dawn quiver]

How do i code a pygame code where multiple instances of a sprite target an instance of another sprite with a specific ID number.

And then the sprites move towards that one sprite and destroy it

[limber veldt]

That depends on a few things. Like, do you already have sprites moving on screen, are you adding them to a sprite group(s), among others

I use vectors in almost all of my moving sprites' movement codes, they make it pretty easy to do most movement behaviors, including seek

[gloomy nebula]

I am still trying to figure out how to accomplish building a fire-emblem esque turn based strategy game movement system in pygame, if anyone is interested in helping me debug that kind of thing. I feel like this code has improved so much but it still doesn't work lol

[pine plinth]

i have two pygame surfaces, and i want to make a mixed version of them
i want something like s1 * 0.3 + s2 * 0.7, but i dont see any function like this in pygame.transform module

how to do that?

[unreal river]

ok, are you trying to chnage the size of the surface?

[limber veldt]

Pygame surfaces have get_at() and set_at() methods, maybe one could use those to read image values, do math, and set them on another surface

[brisk yew]

currently I can offer a surfarray solution (uses numpy)

import pygame


s1 = pygame.Surface((30, 30))
s1.fill("red")
s2 = pygame.Surface((30, 30))
s2.fill("blue")

s1_pixels = pygame.surfarray.pixels3d(s1)
s2_pixels = pygame.surfarray.pixels3d(s2)
s3 = pygame.surfarray.make_surface((s1_pixels * 0.3 + s2_pixels * 0.7).astype(int))
del s1_pixels, s2_pixels

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((90, 30), flags=pygame.SCALED)
screen.blit(s1, (0, 0))
screen.blit(s2, (30, 0))
screen.blit(s3, (60, 0))

pygame.display.flip()
input()

[undone knoll]

Hello guys

[dawn quiver]

wouldn't alpha blending work?

like, you could set the alpha value of second surface to s2.set_alpha(int(0.7*255))?

and then s1.blit(s2, (0,0))?

[brisk yew]

I don't think it's exactly that simple but probably doable
I can see like a 3 step way of using blend flags as well, but the surfarray solution is more general, just need to cap values at 255, but otherwise the sum of the coefficients can be greater than 1

[ebon anvil]

Hello, I have an issue with OpenGL and textures : #user-interfaces message

Maybe here someone will have the answer

[pine plinth]

no

[pine plinth]

touching pixels one by one in pure python is a bad idea

[pine plinth]

this is perfect, thank you

[limber veldt]

Yeah, for sure, especially in any kind of game loop, just an idea though

[manic egret]

ramadan karem

[cunning thorn]

Hey guys n-1 concept is use in for loop

but , for i in range(5,-1,-1): as -1 -1 = -2

not make sense

[pine plinth]

it is not n-1, it is n-step

[sacred bane]

can we do 3d games in python?

[pine plinth]

yes

[olive parcel]

yes, see Panda3D or Ursina

[split oasis]

So how can i create animations for pygames

To be specific 2d animations

[vagrant saddle]

use a sprite sheet, like frames of a minimovie and display them in loop

[dim raptor]

IS GAME DEV HARD

[pine plinth]

DEPENDS

[split oasis]

So can i use aseprite

Iam already a 2d animator

Or there is a specific app

[brisk yew]

Aseprite is definitely one of the special apps meant for that

[split oasis]

Ok is there any kind of importer for pygames

Srry for alot of questions

[brisk yew]

mmm, none that I know of, but you can configure aseprite to export the animation in a spritesheet form, make it also export a json file with frame confing along it and then just read from that and load

I can send an implementation of how I do it sometime later

[split oasis]

Ok thx will try that

[split oasis]

Ok thanks again for information

[raven kernel]

@split oasis Once youve got the spritesheet ready this video covers loading them up pretty well
https://youtu.be/M6e3_8LHc7A?si=xxtjFwX5XoT7bvnU

[split oasis]

thanks you so much

Btw i already made some sonic animation also steve from Minecraft

Trying to make a platformer fighter like super smash bros

[dry fossil]

which is python game editor

[pine plinth]

notepad

[dawn quiver]

i haven't seen one. just use a regular python ide ig

[dawn quiver]

How do i make a dialogue system like in rpg games using python

[jade latch]

Does anyone need python developer?

[dawn quiver]

I dont understand why people make games with python why dont u use roblox its 10x easier and u get more money and the game are fun to play

[meager thicket]

because they may want a freedom that roblox cannot give

[spiral cove]

Because:
A. They each have their own positives and negatives, for example, you can't work with files and such in Roblox, but you can with Python
B. Some users may not have access to Roblox
C. Some users dont like Roblox

Also, you are unlikely to ever make more than a negligible amount of Robux from making a game in Roblox
Additionally, some people prefer the style of python-made games better :p

[bronze niche]

im making a minecraft bot based on minescript - mod, baritone, but that leaves the hole of crafting: I figured out that i can move the mouse cursor but i cant install the mouse libary (pip install mouse) can someone help me to move my mouse on the screen with python?

[bronze niche]

the only problem is that i cant use pyautogui

thats the problem

pip install pyautogui in the terminal of vs-code

??

i installed it via microsoft store

ok

[noble socket]

are there any game engine using python other than pygame

[noble socket]

don’t install python in ms store

[olive parcel]

Arcade, pyglet, Panda3D, ursina, Kivy

[jade latch]

Does anyone need game developer?

[fresh haven]

i'm making a motocross terminal game is it bad that my countdown before races is 8 lines

[balmy pendant]

making 3d game in python like doom using grid based map and DDA raycasting but I need help fixing my function to render the enemies

the like shrink weird like i dont have the distance right idk what im doing

[pine plinth]

gravity sim

[dawn quiver]

How do i make a gravity sim like that? Did you use pymunk or just made your own physics engine

And i don't know how to make a dialogue system like in rpg games

[meager thicket]

what is the complexity?
do you iterate, for each ball, on every others to get attraction force?

[pine plinth]

complexity is n^2, not optimal
but changing it would require a lot of work

[meager thicket]

okk

[lapis estuary]

oh hallo guys

[tender hawk]

can somoane teach me how to code?

[vital saddle]

This channel is just bloated with shitty questions 💀

[proper peak]

it's less complicated than one might think; i have an old proof of concept on my github: https://github.com/RundownRhino/fastgravity

[untold fossil]

Сдесь есть русские?

[dawn quiver]

Which one would have higher FPS?

(AM4) Ryzen 5 5600 + RX 7800 XT

or

(AM5) Ryzen 5 7600 + RX 7700 XT

(same price)

[fresh haven]

i would go with the am5 one simply because am5 will be around for a while and the fps will be about the same maybe even better depending on what your playing

[ember steeple]

go with the better graphics card

the difference in cpu in gaming is likely less than the difference in gpu

[pine kayak]

pygame / pybag bug:

Collecting pygbag
  Downloading pygbag-0.9.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (7.4 kB)
Downloading pygbag-0.9.0-py3-none-any.whl (1.7 MB)
   ---------------------------------------- 1.7/1.7 MB 4.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: pygbag
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\allan\\anaconda3\\envs\\vub\\Lib\\site-packages\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\pygbag\\filtering.py'


(vub) C:\Users\allan\OneDrive\Documents\_VUB\Programeerconcepten\project2>
(vub) C:\Users\allan\OneDrive\Documents\_VUB\Programeerconcepten\project2>python -m pybag main
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 189, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 148, in _get_module_details
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 112, in _get_module_details
  File "C:\Users\allan\anaconda3\envs\vub\Lib\site-packages\pybag\__init__.py", line 39, in <module>
    dbgdir = find_dbgdir()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\allan\anaconda3\envs\vub\Lib\site-packages\pybag\__init__.py", line 36, in find_dbgdir
    raise RuntimeError("Windbg install directory not found!")
RuntimeError: Windbg install directory not found!'''```

How can I fix this?

[vagrant saddle]

simple, add a g to pybag to get "-m pygbag"

note that pygbag is not meant for use in venv / docker or other python than official cpython, it is meant for user install in system python

but obviously the wheel is bad, packaging tools are getting worse they follow recursive symlinks

[vagrant saddle]

install should be fixed now ( 0.9.1 ), thanks for that report

[golden vale]

Any good pointers on how to use music? Like background music for a platform game. Restart music between levels? Fade or fade in music? Abrupt sound effect when level is cleared? Hmm 🤔

[raven kernel]

Any particular library you're using?

Hmm are you asking about what type of audio to have in a game?

[golden vale]

just some basic 101, we have an annoying melody, so the question is if we can jus tplay that on repeat throughout the whole game or if it should restart on level change ^^'

[raven kernel]

I see both, I think you should choose whichever you find sounds better!

I do see music restarting on level pretty often though
And I think it goes well with selling the effect of having started again

All my games are single-big-level so I havent had the opportunity to explore haha

[brisk yew]

axedit has a bunch of levels you can choose from
no bg music for that though...

[raven kernel]

true, time to start making music for it

[split oasis]

Any tips , fellas?

[pine kayak]

how can I install pygame_sdl2

[raven kernel]

You just need to import pygame._sdl2 at the top

[pine kayak]

okay thanks

[raven kernel]

Infact it seems like if you import pygame._sdl2 you needn't import pygame separately

[toxic river]

Hello, there is this amazing work - https://github.com/LingDong-/shan-shui-inf/blob/master/index.html. For my research paper I wish to create a project where a certain art can be fed to the computer and **PROCEDURAL GENERATION** can make similar types of infinite arts. Kinda like the DaVinci project but using procedural generation without big/no dataset. To keeps the project scale controlled, I aim to create something like 1 type of painting only, not different types. I wish to create something similar to this project has made but this project is very vast and I have no understanding of JS/frontend dev/ Full-Stack etc. Can someone help me please? Any help is appreciated. I hope to create a good project

[magic lynx]

How to reduce the bot's movement speed in the game?
When you press the button, the bot moves not by 1, but by 3-5 cells

I'm not fluent in English, I communicate through a translator

[proper peak]

Instead of checking if the button is pressed, do movement when you get an event saying this button was just pressed. So move this code into the event loop, and modify it like

if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
    if event.key == pygame.K_a and player_cell_x > 0:
        player_cell_x -= 1
    # and so on

[grand jewel]

check out the python library streamlit, pretty easy to use and ideal for exposing python based apps on the web without having to delve into any JS or front end

[fresh haven]

Is there anyway to make code restart from a certain line, for example i need my code to repeat if i say my IGN is wrong

[vagrant saddle]

use a loop

[dawn quiver]

Can someone help me how to make an n-body simulation here

[coarse ferry]

Anyone know how to use box2D with pygame

[fresh haven]

It's working now

Thanks

[pine grotto]

i just downloaded assasins creed valhalla on windows 11 and its not using my amd gpu even though i turned it on in my settings

someone help i wanna have more than 3 fps

[pine grotto]

?

[summer arch]

Is your GPU visible when you open task manager?

[pine grotto]

no

but now now i have way bigger problems that i need solved lmfao

[dawn quiver]

Anyone wanna make textual games with tkinter and shell?

I got some stuff going on. Check the esoteric channel for the repo

[dawn quiver]

yo guys

where can i start studying python?

[zenith oar]

question

how do i send images that are copy/pastable from discord

[zenith oar]

and yes i might. python.org has pretty much anything you're looking for

[vivid mural]

Can anyone suggest a DirectX binding for Python? I do mean DirectX, not a general-purpose renderer with a DirectX backend.

[dawn quiver]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/CGHA

i need a scoreboard

added

please

[vagrant saddle]

which one ? those are online services ...

[dawn quiver]

I wanna make a video game

How do I make a video game

[vagrant saddle]

with a game idea and a text editor, here's a collaborative editor https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/pygbag which everyone can run with https://pygame-web.github.io/showroom/pythongit.html?cpython3.13&-i&https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/pygbag/export/txt# @dawn quiver there may be a scoreboard in that poc 😄

[night tapir]

How can I use pgzero? I have already installed it but it doesn’t work

[shy shoal]

It happens for me too

[vagrant saddle]

does "pgzrun" command work from your command line ?

[shy shoal]

No

[vagrant saddle]

it should, maybe you have installed it in a venv or a in python that is not in the PATH

[shy shoal]

I used pip install pygame and pip install pgzero