game-development

[raw shadow]

pdx and pdy are player delta x and y

if the player which si the gun is moving left, then ```py
def degToRad(self,player_angle):
return self.player_angle * math.pi / 180

def fixAngle(self,player_angle):
    if self.player_angle > 359:
        self.player_angle -= 360
    if self.player_angle < 0 :
        self.player_angle += 360
    return self.player_angle

if keys_pressed[pygame.K_a]:
            ray.player_angle += 5
            ray.player_angle =  ray.fixAngle(ray.player_angle)
            ray.pdx =  math.cos(ray.degToRad(ray.player_angle)) * 5
            ray.pdy = -math.sin(ray.degToRad(ray.player_angle)) * 5
            
        if keys_pressed[pygame.K_s]:
            ray.player_x  -= ray.pdx
            ray.player_y  -= ray.pdy

        if keys_pressed[pygame.K_d]:
            ray.player_angle -= 5
            ray.player_angle =  ray.fixAngle(ray.player_angle)
            ray.pdx =  math.cos(ray.degToRad(ray.player_angle)) * 5
            ray.pdy = -math.sin(ray.degToRad(ray.player_angle)) * 5

im sorry, i couldnt be fucked explaining it

[tawny smelt]

Thats alright, this helps

thank you very much!

[raw shadow]

but if your mouse moves left then you plus the player angle and then you use that fix angle function which makes sure the angle is a valid integer for being a angle

and then you calculate your pdx and pdy

[vivid bone]

is it just me or is there some weird indentation of the 2nd and 3rd blocks in that code?

[raw shadow]

yeah its from a class

i just rpped it out cos its a external use method

bro there's also a pygame.rect.rotate

[tawny smelt]

im gonna look into that as well

[raw shadow]

player.image = pygame.transform.rotate(player.image, 45)

thats like such a better solution xD

im stupid

[tawny smelt]

XD, nah mate, at least you know how to code unlike me

[raw shadow]

if you run that code that i have, its a ray caster, its a totally different thingo.

but nah you should stick to the simpler things, they are done so you worry about the main part, the creativity

[vivid bone]

im a bit confused about the idea here

i mean the gun is a png, not a model, yeah?

[raw shadow]

its a sprite

[vivid bone]

if the png is just being rotated clockwise or counter clockwise it may look a bit silly

[raw shadow]

its a tilt

im sure the gun is gonna move left and right

but the tilt is gonna be like offsetted to like .5 degree per x offset from the center of the screen

[tawny smelt]

thats what i was thinking, it moves in 2 dimensions so its going to literally rotate?? or am i mistaken somewhere?

[raw shadow]

tilting is rotating

you can rotate it in a small amount so that it gives a tilting look

[tawny smelt]

i see

that could work yeah

[vivid bone]

i think i see it, like it just rotates to accommodate for vertical movement?

[raw shadow]

horizontal

[vivid bone]

🤷‍♀️ i would have to see this in action i think

to understand

i can imagine sliding the sprite back and forth for horizontal crosshair movement and rotating it for vertical crosshair movement

[raw shadow]

left offset is width/2 and right offset is width

[vivid bone]

i just can't imagine how you can rotate a gun sprite to account for horizontal crosshair movement without making more sprites?

idk, it's not my project lmao doesnt really matter

[raw shadow]

?

seems like you've never made a game with pygame

[vivid bone]

by that i just meant i don't gotta bug you about it

[raw shadow]

sdl2 is amazing and pythons simplicity has made it insanely easy to just create a plethora of builtins for pygame

there's alot you can do

[vivid bone]

wild

i've used pygame a lot but not for any "3d" stuff

[raw shadow]

this isnt 3d, its 2d, altought, he could map left, middle and right sectors of the screen to certain sprites so that the images tilt accordance to thier corrdinates but the images change to show the perspective

the middle is a stright back of the gun, the left and right are left and right tilted views of the gun

[vivid bone]

see that makes sense to me, changing the sprite

but the builtin you're talking about using is altering a sprite on the fly to make it look like it's turning left and right?

im gonna go make coffee

[raw shadow]

i had coffee this morning after like 3 months of break from caffine. i was on fire

[vivid bone]

yup

that sounds great, but also im sorry

ive been trying to get off caffeine for like 10 years but it always pulls me back in

anyway

[raw shadow]

when i had my finals like 4 months go, i was popping about 400-600 mgs of caffine....

[dawn quiver]

Hello everyone! How can i run some code when my app finishes loading? (like on start of application) in kivy

I wanna some animation playing after application starts

[raw shadow]

that wouldnt be this channel

[dawn quiver]

Note: I have an Screen widget with this label

[dawn quiver]

it would

its kivy related

[raw shadow]

i think that would be user-interfaces

or software design

eh, who am i to judge what a graphics library is being used for

[dawn quiver]

i think kivy isnt just for game development

[raw shadow]

yeah but none of the above can run natively on android

also kivy is a graphics library.

[dawn quiver]

.

[raw shadow]

https://kivy.org/doc/stable/api-kivy.animation.html

maybe

googling helps

[dawn quiver]

i know how to make an animation, i just need to run it on some kind of event

i tried it on_start and on_enter

[raw shadow]

im not familiar with kivy

how does a application run persay

what command makes it run

[dawn quiver]

wdym

[raw shadow]

whats the main function

can you show me

[dawn quiver]

class TelepatMessengerApp(App):
    def build(self):
        return kv

if __name__ == '__main__':
    TelepatMessengerApp().run()

kv is the UI

[raw shadow]

okay, so from the moment telepatMessengerApp().run() is executed

[dawn quiver]

yes

[raw shadow]

which im assuming build function runs

you could start a clock which is the amount of time your animation takes

you can figure out where things start to get rendered and sneak your loading animation in before any of the components load

start a clock for the time it takes for your animation ot run

and then continue with rendering your landing page or whatever it is you're rendering

does that make sense or would that not work with kivy

[dawn quiver]

I wanna some animation playing **after **application starts

[dawn quiver]

i dont think so

[raw shadow]

well, in principle thats how i would imagine a load up animation would work

[acoustic herald]

How can I possibly make animations in PyGame?

[dawn quiver]

helper duck needs help

[acoustic herald]

YeS

[raw shadow]

all you have to do is understand your issue. hypothise how it would work

understand the resources you have and thier abilities

map the resources and your solution together

[tawny smelt]

yo @raw shadow so i found a better way to kinda achieve the effect i wanted

instead of trying to move a 2d image on the 3rd dimension (which now that i think about is completely retared), i just decided to move the gun itself

[raw shadow]

thats what i was saying that whole time

[tawny smelt]

thanks for the help mate

[raw shadow]

btw i didnt hint at any 3d stuff xD

nah its all goodie

[vivid bone]

animation with nothing else going on:
load all the images of the animation, put them all in a list, iterate through the list and display.

animation with other stuff going on:
use a thread to toggle animation state variables, change given sprite's current image based on that variable

that's how i did it

[acoustic herald]

How about animation when the character in the game and other stuff are moving and still running in the background.

[vivid bone]

see "animation with other stuff going on"

[acoustic herald]

Oh wait

[vivid bone]

i represent the player, npcs, animted objects in general as instances of classes, with "current image" attributes that can be changed according to a global "animation state" variable

i change the state variable in a thread so it can run at all times

this is for like, idle animations

surely not the best method but that's the one i came up with for my stuff at the time

[safe spade]

Hi

I don't know if somebody remember me

but for the people who forgot or aren't award

i'm currently working on a video game engine

and i have publish an update who introduce

basic networking for creating multiplayer game

so here's my git hub page if you are interest : https://github.com/ModAndThink/BaguetteEngine/tree/0.0.3

[frigid plover]

I'm developping my own little rpg and how would you guys pass the MyBoss class into the Bite skill, so I can do actions with the Bite skill while accessing Myboss attributes?

#bosses.py
class MyBoss(Boss):
    def __init__(self):
        self.skills = [skills.Bite(),]

#skills.py
class Bite(Boss_skill):
    def __init__(self,<<<MyBoss>>>)
        self.source = <<<MyBoss>>>
    def action(self):
        # Do stuff with MyBoss class through self.source

[vivid bone]

hmm

i don't see a reason to pass the Boss to the skill?

Just let the boss have Bite as one of its skills

seems like you're referencing them both to each other? you only have to do it in one direction

[frigid plover]

lets say my bite skill changes boss attributes, how do I make Bite() access them?

[vivid bone]

i would give each skill certain numbers, like say, the damage it does

then write a function that takes the skill's damage and subtracts it from the boss's health

does that answer the question?

here's the spell class i wrote for my rpg

# spell.py
# Define spell class for use in Goblin Hero
# Author: Jackie P, aka TheDataElemental

# Spells to be cast by player
# Spell_type = heal, attack, status...
# Value = amount of damage, health, etc
class Spell:
    def __init__(self, name, spell_type, value, animation, mana_cost, \
        element):
        self.name = name
        self.spell_type = spell_type
        self.value = value
        self.animation = animation
        self.mana_cost = mana_cost
        self.element = element
        self.target = None

    # Carry out effects of spell
    def effect(self, target):
        self.target = target
        
        if self.spell_type == 'Heal':
            self.target.hp += self.value
            
        elif self.spell_type == 'Attack':
            # Check for elemental advantage
            if target.elemental_type == self.element.advantage:
                # Deal advantage damage
                damage_dealt = self.value * 2
                self.target.hp -= damage_dealt
            
            # If no advantage, deal standard damage
            else:
                damage_dealt = self.value
                self.target.hp -= damage_dealt    

        return damage_dealt

[frigid plover]

Is this good practice?

#bosses.py
class MyBoss(Boss):
    def __init__(self):
        self.skills = [skills.Bite(self.__class__),]
        self.hp = 100 # for example purposes

#skills.py
class Bite(Boss_skill):
    def __init__(self,boss_class)
        self.source = boss_class
    def action(self):
        self.source.hp += 50 # Bite heals skill owner

[vivid bone]

ah so i was thinking you were attacking the boss maybe

i made a basic example

class Enemy:
    def __init__(self, hp):
        self.hp = hp

class Attack:
    def __init__(self, damage):
        self.damage = damage


def deal_damage(enemy, attack):
    print("HP before attack:", enemy.hp)
    enemy.hp -= attack.damage
    print("HP after attack:", enemy.hp)


tackle = Attack(3)
monster = Enemy(10)

deal_damage(monster, tackle)

i don't 100% understand what's going on w your code but it seems unnecessarily complicated maybe

let me adjust my example now that i know the skill belongs to the boss

ah so it looks like,

you're making a special kind of attack, that has a special effect (life steal)

what you can do is have each skill have a "type" attribute, and dictate behavior based on that

okay here

class Character:
    def __init__(self, name, hp, skills):
        self.name = name
        self.hp = hp
        self.skills = skills

class Skill:
    def __init__(self, damage, skill_type):
        self.damage = damage
        self.skill_type = skill_type


def attack(user, target, skill):
    print(user.name, "HP:", user.hp)
    print(target.name, "HP:", target.hp)
    print(user.name, "attacks", target.name, "for", skill.damage, "damage")
    
    target.hp -= skill.damage
    if skill.skill_type == "life steal":
        user.hp += skill.damage  # todo: add code to divide by 2 and round
        
    print(user.name, "HP:", user.hp)
    print(target.name, "HP:", target.hp)

# Make skills
bite = Skill(3, 'life steal')
stab = Skill(5, 'standard')

# Make characters
player = Character('Player', 12, [stab])
boss = Character('Boss', 10, [bite])

# Boss attacks player (example)
attack(boss, player, bite)

this should have the effect you want

does that make sense?

[acoustic herald]

Should I use classes while making a game or global variables?

[frigid plover]

update: it worked 🙂

[vivid bone]

use classes when you're trying to simulate a thing that has certain attributes (for example, color, size or whatever)

[vivid bone]

what did?

[frigid plover]

self.__class__

self.__class__

[vivid bone]

i wouldnt make a different class for every enemy or skill though

that's a mistake i made myself early on

[acoustic herald]

Okay

Is classes faster than global?

[vivid bone]

having a ton of global variables is generally a bad practice to avoid as much as possible

you wanna keep your stuff in neat little boxes when you can

[frigid plover]

i'm doing like this, because Bite() can be accessed by more than one Boss, and I want bite.effect() to have boss attributes available to them inside bite

[vivid bone]

best to generalize your code as much as possible but that might be too advanced for right now

keep on coding, you'll get there

[acoustic herald]

Which is better?

class loop:
  def __init__(self,lvl1,lvl2):
    self.lvl1 = lvl1
    self.lvl2 = lvl2

or

global lvl1
global lvl2
lvl1 = True
lvl2 = False

[vivid bone]

I guess it depends on what you’re trying to achieve

Are you planning on having multiple different types of loops with different attributes? Then use a class

Are lvl1 and lvl2 one-time values you don’t plan to ever change? Then i guess define them once as global variables and move on

[acoustic herald]

If i want them to be deciding the game loops. Like: ```py
while lvl1:
pass

And also a second question. How can I improve the performance of PyGame?

[vivid bone]

I don’t see any reason to use a class here from the limited context i have

[acoustic herald]

I am asking these questions to get the best performance in my game.

[acoustic herald]

Okay.

[vivid bone]

I don’t think performance should really be an issue but here

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5298051/Improving-Performance-in-Pygame-Speed-Up-Your-Game

[acoustic herald]

And how can I possibly make the games so that every player would move in the same speed without it depending on the performance of the computer.

[vivid bone]

probably this is a matter of choosing a framerate and updating the screen based on that

set an fps constant to 30 or 60 or whatever, then add a line to your game loop to wait for the clock to tick

[acoustic herald]

Okay.

[vivid bone]

i mean this is for normalizing game speed on one local machine

if you mean online multiplayer, idk anything about that

[acoustic herald]

Local

[safe spade]

if you want you can use my basic system of server/client

[surreal ibex]

would it be possible to make a Gameboy Advance game in python and then crosscompile to ARM Assembly? I read something saying as long as you can compile/convert it to ARM Assembly you can make a GBA game in almost any language

[safe spade]

Not sure

The assembly that use your computer is not same that a gameboy use

I think it’s more likely that you wouldn’t be able to traduce it using program

Just by the fact that your computer use an assembly that has function who doesn’t exist in a gameboy

Also it wouldn’t be very optimized if it’s possible

[muted spoke]

If anyone wants to test and give an opinion https://github.com/Gabriel018/Python-Games

[vivid bone]

pygame tetris work in progress

[muted spoke]

Well I did a similar

[vivid bone]

nice

[vivid bone]

update

[flat aurora]

The short answer is not really, the long answer is much more complex than a simple yes/no.

Most GBA development is done with C, there’s probably some kind of way to use Rust or something, but even still performance tuning generally needs manually done with assembly

[surreal ibex]

kk thanks

[flat aurora]

In some instances, it can actually be easier to build an emulator for a retro console than to build the games themselves

And that can definitely be done in Python(though it’s not the most performant choice for that)

[surreal ibex]

yeh I used to have my own gb emulator in python but it was really slow

[safe spade]

Normal, your gb use an assembly in format 8 bits and python use an assembly 64 bits

[vivid bone]

That’s why i’m making a “nes style” game instead. Didn’t feel like learning assembly

[dusty bay]

has anyone tried to use wgpu in pyodide? Does it work?

I managed to micropip.install() it from wheel in the REPL (https://pyodide.org/en/stable/console.html). I can import wgpu but

from wgpu.gui.auto import WgpuCanvas, run

both fail

edit: nvm I think I found the answer - https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/issues/1911

[thick egret]

Has anyone used Godot with "python runtime support" by chance?

[next estuary]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/596647535913861120/925557925483773962/2021-12-28_17-12-11.mp4

Procgen fun with hexagons

[bitter mist]

is there any engine for python

[bitter mist]

does godot supports python?

i thought it supports gd script, visual script and c#

[flat aurora]

I believe there are some level of third party runtimes which add varying levels of support for Python, but it isn’t an officially supported language as far as I’m aware

For Python there’s Arcade or Pygame for 2D, and Ursina is popular for 3D. There’s also Pyglet but that tends to be a bit lower level(more like a multimedia framework than a game engine)

[bitter mist]

wait godot has a module for python

[granite lichen]

@vivid bone this game me so many fun ideas for practice thanks for posting

[vivid bone]

Oh ty!

[thick egret]

I heard it can but I'm not sure if it completely replaces gdscript. People just keep telling me to learn gdscript instead of python but the only reason I even consider godot is for python practice.

[bitter mist]

I am goinf to learn gd script instead of using python in godot

[gusty path]

Im new programming python things

here is an ez and boring pong game

[frank field]

Hey @gusty path!

It looks like you tried to attach a Python file - please use a code-pasting service such as https://paste.pythondiscord.com

[gusty path]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/tibozusawi.apache

[frigid plover]

The thing with this implementation is that i will have LOTS of different boss skills, with some characteristics that are specific to that skill, like dots, hots, passives, actives which means that eventually, i will have lots of "skill_types" which will need its specific block:

if skill.skill_type == "life steal":
    user.hp += skill.damage

altough i like the idea of having my skills being made like this:

# Make skills
bite = Skill(3, 'life steal')
stab = Skill(5, 'standard')

[vivid bone]

for sure, yeah that's the idea, having a block of if statements, one for each unique skill type

i'm sure there's a better way of doing it, but i feel that's still better than having a new class for each type of skill?

the if statements would take up less space

[frigid plover]

right now i have a Boss_skill() class that has methods like resolve_skill() that triggers the skill effect and find_priority_target(), and all my boss skills inherit from Boss_skill()

then i just have a single skills.py

with ALL my skills that any boss would use

then I just have a bosses.py

with all bosses having a list of whatever skill class they use

[vivid bone]

either way you'll have to dictate that behavior for each skill type somewhere, yeah

if you have a system that works then that's good

worry about optimization later maybe

[frigid plover]

class Bite(Boss_skill):
    def __init__(self, boss: Boss, targets: list[Player]) -> None:
        super().__init__(boss, targets)        
        self.name = "Bite"
        self.cast_time = 2
        self.spell_power = 1.2
        self.description = r"Life Steals 20% damage of damage done"
        self.targeting_type = 'tank'
        self.current_target = self.find_taget(self.targeting_type)
        
    
    def effect(self):        
        dmg = calc_tick_dmg(self.source.attack,self.current_target.defense,self.spell_power)
        self.current_target.take_damage(dmg)
        self.source.heal(0.2 * dmg)

here's how it looks

but now that i talked with you i think that it would be better to pass stuff like cast_time and spell_power as a parameter into the Bite class, so that different Bosses can have different values on a Bite skill

it's great to have someone else to share ideas, thanks a lot!

[vivid bone]

oh ty, yeah it's def helpful for me too to discuss code w people

[dawn quiver]

Hello everyone, is it a way to create a rpg in a browser with python? I heard about pyjs

[severe wedge]

Yo what kinda code would i do to see if a player has a certain role or not

Like

For role in msg.author.roles:
     If role == “vip”:
     . . .```

[lunar venture]

Isn't that discord.py or something?

[severe wedge]

Ye

Idk what imma supposed to use

[vivid bone]

django is a popular python web framework? but when i think browser game, i think javascript. but to be fair i havent done much browser stuff at all

[dawn quiver]

Yes it's javascript, but Im not going to learn Javascript when I already know Python 🙂 I'm sure in the future we could convert any programming langage in another , Pyjamas is a Python converter to javascript for this use, I was asking if some of you knew another way or if some people already tried pyjs for making a game

[safe spade]

question : anybody know how to open file with a custom format for extract value

[severe wedge]

Anyone know?

[safe spade]

can you give more context?

[severe wedge]

Basically im trying to look and see if a discord member has a like vip role or smth so that they have access to extra commands or smth

[safe spade]

a

[severe wedge]

Like you mean load it?

[safe spade]

no

i would like to get value from it using a special format

but for your question i advise to ask it i the discord-bot channel

[severe wedge]

Would it be a .py file? And u wanna get a variable from it?

[safe spade]

nono

[severe wedge]

Oh lol i thought i was in that one

[safe spade]

i use a special a format to read it

.py is a type of format

.pdf also

[severe wedge]

Oh wait do u wanna have a file with a variable that nobody can see?

[safe spade]

do you know how format work?

[severe wedge]

Sorta

🤷

[safe spade]

ah

a format is a way to read a file

[severe wedge]

Ohhhh

[safe spade]

for example with pdf the programs made for this format would scann the file for find the things he is schearching

wait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVdmmN0su6E here's a great video

[gentle falcon]

I am learning pygame and till now I have successfully added a backgroung image to the game window. Now I want to add the player image but it is too large in size. How can I crop it?

NVM guys I got it

[crisp gust]

just learn js. It will only make you a better programmer and js teaches you a lot of things that you most likely won't learn using python. It's also really good on a job app.

[meager osprey]

`def checkCollision():
for pipe in pipe_list:
if square.colliderect(pipe):#Problem
print("collide")

if square.bottom >= 900 or square.top <= -100:#This works fine
    print("Collide")`

Collision is even detected between two bodies when they are not touching. Please help.

[dawn quiver]

Use euclidean distance

[dawn quiver]

Learn C, C teaches you way deeper things than JS

[crisp gust]

Yeah but thats only if you really care about low level stuff or learning. I want to learn C but i just don't have any use for it

[dawn quiver]

You can use it to create Linux drivers, you can use it to control levels of computer hardware that would be harder with high level languages, you can even use it to create efficient apps and games

You can even use it for cyber security

[proper peak]

You can use it to create Linux drivers, you can use it to control levels of computer hardware that would be harder with high level languages, you can even use it to create efficient apps and games
that's quite a lot of extremely niche stuff 😛

[crisp gust]

Yes but i don't create any of those. If i wanted to make apps i could use C# or python. JS has electron. Theres also GTK for a number of languages, all of which is just easier to write than C. I could use GDscript or C# for games. Cybersecurity is a strong point in C which it excels at although Go is starting to rise because it's much easier to write.

[dawn quiver]

Python is based on C, C# is just a rip off of Java by Microsoft and not a lot of people use Go compared to C

[proper peak]

not sure about cybersecurity, even. If you mean high-performance cryptography algorithms, sure, if you mean writing safe software - something like Rust might be nicer

[dawn quiver]

You can test malware written in C on computer hardware

[crisp gust]

so?

[proper peak]

they didn't imply C# is similar to C somehow, though, they said it's a good choice for making apps, which is true.

[dawn quiver]

its mainly good for microsoft development and Unity

[crisp gust]

it's what it's designed for

[dawn quiver]

i know

C++ is just a high level and object oriented programming version of C

[crisp gust]

but it has the same downsides as C.

[dawn quiver]

like what

most AAA games including are coded in C++

[crisp gust]

just generally harder to write than a lot of newer languages

[dawn quiver]

At least harder than C

[crisp gust]

thats different

[dawn quiver]

thats because of Unreal engine

[crisp gust]

yes

it has a high level API that doesn't require you to go low level like C.

[dawn quiver]

it does not use C

[crisp gust]

i never said it did

[dawn quiver]

C++ is high level in general

[crisp gust]

ok i'm not arguing

ask anyone and they will say newer languages are easier to write than C

[dawn quiver]

yeah and we are in a python server talking about different languages

[crisp gust]

if you know C then great but telling someone to learn a language they most likely will never use and forget after a month of not using it isn't the right thing to do.

[dawn quiver]

If I would tell someone which language to learn first, I would just say Python

[dawn quiver]

Assembly would be even worse in that case unless if you are a hardware engineer

[vivid bone]

I’ve been using python for a year but might jump to js just bc i hear there are more jobs for it

[dawn quiver]

do what you love best as long as there are good outcomes out of it

[vivid bone]

I like python fine and feel like i’m decent at it now but still can’t find work with it

So i’ll shift to web stuff ig

I’d still like to finish my python rpg since i worked on it for like… nine months

[dapper moat]

I have a turtle object which is appearing behind another turtle object, and I want it first one to be visible on top of the second one, can anybody help me out?

[flint trail]

My skills in game development end at creating a platformer game

[safe spade]

personnaly i dont even know how to use turtle for video game

[devout rover]

Can i get help implementing online player collisions for my game. i have collisions between the players and the map but not between the players

[tranquil girder]

How is collision between players different from collision with the map?

[vivid bone]

insert code to check for adjacent players before executing the movement process

you can use absolute value and subtraction to calculate distance

[vivid bone]

maybe but this is kind of vague, can you provide more context?

for my game, i have a list of current entities in the scene, iterate through them and blit them to the screen one at a time

if entities are stacking in the wrong order, you can just rearrange their position in the list

whatever image is blitted to the screen last will appear on top

hope that helps

[normal silo]

C is the lingua franca of the programming world, it is what it is. Learn C, C++, Python, JS, and C#. The more of them you learn, the faster you can learn a new one.

(A lot of the new ones you learn are just a variation of what you already know)

[vivid bone]

I’d like to do more C stuff for sure

[normal silo]

(C++ is C with more tools but a couple of downsides that are subtle, it's still good though)

(Also don't forget that there are many other options now, like Rust, D (D has improved a lot over time), Zig, Odin, etc)

[vivid bone]

I like programming but it would be nice if someone would pay me for it lmao

[normal silo]

(But C will be around for a very very long time, because the OSs use it and every language uses it to communicate with the OSs and each other, etc)

[vivid bone]

I might shift from python to js and eventually to c

Just for funsies

[normal silo]

Seems fine, a scripting language, a web language, and a systems programming language.

[vivid bone]

neither js or c look particularly intimidating after working with python for a year

[normal silo]

JS is a lot better than it used to be. C is still C, but slightly nicer over time (C11 latest, they don't like to change a lot / keep it simple).

[vivid bone]

i messed with js a little and a lot of my python experience seemed to port over

https://github.com/thedataelemental/JavaScript-Practice

[normal silo]

Yeah, Python will set you up for success with many other languages (because it's straight forward and not esoteric really).

[vivid bone]

it's all just code with some quirks here and there huh

[normal silo]

Yeah, some new languages are trying to minimize those quirks.

Smooth out the edges.

Which new versions of JS have for example.

[vivid bone]

i heard good things about typescript

heard it helps to avoid errors

[normal silo]

Yes, but I think it makes more sense after learning JS.

[vivid bone]

makes sense

[normal silo]

Kind of how Rust makes more sense if you know C++ (you understand the intent behind the design).

[vivid bone]

foundations first, then variations

[potent ice]

Starting directly on TS can be confusing 😄

[normal silo]

If you learn JS first you will understand and appreciate typescript and why it does what it does (what problem was it trying to solve in JS).

Same with C++ and Rust.

[next estuary]

Procgen islands for my game haha

I'm using Ursina / PIL

[tired aspen]

IM making a 2d game

i wan a menu for customizations

so i use tkinter for that??

[granite lichen]

pygame seems to be really useful ? @tired aspen

[tired aspen]

Im new to it

[vivid bone]

Pygame mostly is just a couple functions for stuff like displaying an image at a given location, making a screen object and refreshing it

There’s like a time delay function

Even w pygame you have to build all the features of your game yourself

Even low level stuff like scrolling text or menu navigation, you gotta build that

Good code practice tho

[tired aspen]

So i run pygame sheets on tkinter canvases??

So that i can give some buttons and all

Im not able to get the layout of things

[vivid bone]

I havent used tkinter myself

[tired aspen]

So how do u ad buttons to your games

??

[vivid bone]

I don’t use the mouse, it’s all arrow keys like a console game

[tired aspen]

Hmm

Anyone else hv any idea

[safe spade]

@tired aspen Me

I’m creating a video game library and I use tkinter for displaying. I have recently implemented basic ui. The button and the label

https://github.com/ModAndThink/BaguetteEngine/tree/0.0.3

Here it’s the project

[tired aspen]

k thx

[safe spade]

@tired aspen wait i would post a example of 2d game

[safe spade]

https://github.com/ModAndThink/Ponc here's the game i made

with a system of multiplayer

[pearl panther]

is it possible to rotate shapes when you draw them in pygame? So perhaps something like pyg.draw.rect(screen, color, (left, top, x, y), angle = 50)?

or maybe

rect = pyg.draw.rect(screen, color, (left, top, x, y))
pyg.transform.rotate(rect, angle)

[frozen knoll]

You need to use a transform I think.

The former works with the arcade library, but not pygame.

[vivid echo]

i am just starting

i am using pygame 0

[vivid bone]

Congrats! Start small.

[viscid solstice]

Does anyone know how to change a arcade window name?

I thought this would do it but it didn't.

[flat aurora]

You need to pass the screen title to the window constructor, there's a few ways but depends on how you're starting a window. If you are subclassing window then pass that SCREEN_TITLE variable into the constructor like super().__init__(SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT, SCREEN_TITLE)

[potent ice]

Yup. Check the API docs : https://api.arcade.academy/en/latest/api/window.html#arcade.Window

only the first two parameters are positional

[viscid solstice]

Okay thank you.

[orchid sage]

I'm having trouble installing pygame on a Raspberry Pi. I've updated to Python 3.8, upgraded pip, but when I try to install pygame I get ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info

[hazy cliff]

Do you guys know how to make builds from the game, if I have it as a PyCharm project, using images, json files, and multiple codes? (pygame game)

[desert cairn]

use bulldozer

https://tenor.com/view/drifting-bulldozer-coming-on-my-way-sliding-into-dms-hello-there-gif-13568079

[hazy cliff]

Buildozer can barely do anything - You can't even use it on windows, let alone the fact it can't even build for windows

[acoustic herald]

@light jacinth How can I make your code so that it stops when it collides with the ground? I'm the guy you helped in #help-dumpling.

Please help me.

[light jacinth]

the if self.y > 400 was the check for whether we hit the ground

so you can change that to work with other surfaces ig

maybe have a list of collideable objects and check for each one

[acoustic herald]

I did it but when the player falls it goes through the ground.

[light jacinth]

hmm

[acoustic herald]

Like thispy def model_grav(self): dt = time.time() - startdt acc = 3000 #if self.y > 400: for event in pygame.event.get(): if self.p.colliderect(ground.g): acc = min(acc,0) self.vel = min(self.vel,0) self.y = 400 self.isjump = False self.vel += acc*dt self.y += self.vel*dt

[light jacinth]

you wouldnt want to set y to 400 then

or actually nah that would be fine since its still the same position

[acoustic herald]

because i want that i have multiple platforms on the screen

@light jacinth ||sorry for pinging||

[light jacinth]

i guess i have something working

but im reinventing the wheel each time

[acoustic herald]

k

[light jacinth]

because i havent done game dev in ages

[acoustic herald]

k

[light jacinth]

        self.model_grav()

    def model_grav(self):
        dt = time.time() - startdt
        acc = 3000
        if self.on_ground():
            acc = min(acc,0)
            self.vel = min(self.vel,0)
        self.vel += acc*dt
        self.y += self.vel*dt
    
    def on_ground(self):
        if self.y > 400:
            self.y =  min(self.y,400)
            return True

        for x1,x2,h in platforms:
            if x1<=self.x<x2 and abs(self.y - h) <10:
                self.y = min(self.y,h)
                return True
        
        return False

platforms = [(0,100,300)]
``` here's what i did

but like, doesnt sound very pygame to me

[acoustic herald]

uhm

this wont work with pygame..

.

[light jacinth]

its working for me but ill admit there are definitely better ways of doing it

[acoustic herald]

okay

[light jacinth]

might wanna wait for someone from here to help because this isnt my territory

[acoustic herald]

okay

@light jacinth I fixed it. Thanks.

[light jacinth]

for fun i made a few visible platforms, but the hacky way i wrote platform collision isnt helping

rn if i walk off a platform and immediately go back i end up half under the platform 🤷

intended game design ofc

[lyric nacelle]

how can i get started with pygame and will i need to used other programmming languages\

[potent ice]

You only need python and the docs : https://www.pygame.org

There is a "getting started" section

[lilac hawk]

Hey just a general question out of interest but are there more efficient ways to program a game-bot except making use of openCV and pyautoGUI because there arent much resources available on youtube and the internet has the tendency to not explain certain mechanisms ...thx in advance (Bot is meant for a PvE-Game and some experience in automation )

[daring yacht]

Anyone here know pygame proficiently dm me

[torpid matrix]

Does Anyone Know How To Game Devolopment In Pygame?

[potent ice]

There are so many resources on pygame out there

Free videos, books, tutorials etc etc

[lunar mantle]

In my 2022 list of stuffs I want to learn game development is one of it. Somehow please recommend me from where to start ?

[dawn quiver]

monogame c#

[safe spade]

My game engine: https://github.com/ModAndThink/BaguetteEngine/tree/0.0.3

[acoustic herald]

@hidden eagle Can you tell more. I'm the guy you helped in #help-bagel (#help-bagel message)

[formal basin]

can anyone help me pls? im new to pygame and for some reason my background image not showing in pygame window

[acoustic herald]

What is your code?

[granite lichen]

@vast hedge did you create a display surface? Once that object i.e. screen is created you can blit something on it.

[vast hedge]

Not me haha

[snow hill]

All done in Python 😅

Here's the source code: https://github.com/harfang3d/dogfight-sandbox-hg2

and happy new year everyone !!!! 🙂

[trail dome]

Wow thats very very impressive, good job with this!

[lunar venture]

I am actually amazed by this! I didn't know Python is capable of that, nice job!

[round obsidian]

... I'm bookmarking this to show people what's possible when they say Python isn't suited to 3D games, because that is a big fat lie :D

[potent ice]

It's definitely super hard if pure python, but we do have C extensions so we can hook into neat stuff 😄

[hollow dock]

sickkk

[peak mountain]

can someone please help with this problem

[potent ice]

gd scripts are not really something we can help with here I think

[peak mountain]

oh ok

[wanton needle]

hey some one have a 32x32 pixels or more tileset with grass, stones and water???

[potent ice]

You can probably find something here : https://www.kenney.nl/assets

[wanton needle]

thanks!!!!

[west pollen]

I am new to python and pygame and I am having a problem making leader board in pygame can anyone help me ?

[snow hill]

GD script is not Python 🐍😅

[potent ice]

This is very helpful I think : https://www.pythondiscord.com/pages/guides/pydis-guides/asking-good-questions/

[west pollen]

thank you

[potent ice]

Also, smaller very specific problems are easier to deal with here. If you have a larger problem you are better off breaking things down into smaller parts.

[west pollen]

noted

[potent ice]

I think this applies pretty much anywhere

[acoustic herald]

Can someone help me with this.
https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/osuwojizom.py
There are no errors but when I move/walk/run in the game my character becomes blank and doesn't show on the screen until I stop moving in the game. Why is this?

[heavy cedar]

Hello just another lost soul stumbling into game dev. I just wanna make a console text based game with single key input without pressing "Enter" but i also need to get string input sometime like names and so on. How should i get do it? is it right place to ask questions like that or shld i go to help channels? Thank you in advance.

[pearl panther]

thanks

[dawn quiver]

what is this ide?

[tranquil girder]

It's Godot

[frozen knoll]

https://youtu.be/QClDvEwcxmg

New demo video for the Arcade library, in celebration of its 6th birthday!

[scarlet rock]

very cool! was angry birds really made using this?

[granite lichen]

Clearer Code, a YouTuber has a really good pygame introduction on his channel. It's about 4 hours long, but after the 1-2 hours you should be able to make the leaderboard.

[dawn quiver]

Is there anyway to make a character move on the terminal. Im trying to create a rpg text game that runs in a terminal

[rich barn]

Anyone familiar with openvr here?

I'm trying to call the PollNextEvent function within Python using the Python openvr package

But I can't since I don't know what parameter to put in there

[proper peak]

Looking at the usage of that function in the library itself, it's used like this:

event = openvr.VREvent_t()
has_events = self.hmd.pollNextEvent(event)

so you create an empty event and pass it to pollNextEvent to be filled.

[rich barn]

Oh wow thank you so much

[proper peak]

This is the way you do a lot of things in C, and it's a bit of a yikes that this wrapper does it the same way as the upstream library, instead of a more pythonic way.

[rich barn]

From where did you find this code?

In the openvr library itself?

[proper peak]

I searched pollnextevent in their github and found a usage of that function in one of their tests:
https://github.com/cmbruns/pyopenvr/blob/df96c8f50937188fbbfd3a1596d8ffaba05e5b1e/src/samples/glfw/hellovr_glfw.py#L402

[frank field]

src/samples/glfw/hellovr_glfw.py line 402

has_events = self.hmd.pollNextEvent(event)```

[rich barn]

Thanks. Didn't expect to get help this fast!

[rich barn]

Yeah it was super confusing. We don't write values to pointers in python nor do we need to specify the length... hence we can only guess what these documents (in C#) shall translate to Python code

[proper peak]

yeah, I'm afraid with a thin wrapper like that you'll have to keep one eye at the docs of the original library, and the other at the bindings' source code 🥴

they didn't even bother autogenerating some docs, even though they totally could have

[rich barn]

Thanks again. Really saved my day.

💙

[snow hill]

otherwise you might want to look at https://github.com/harfang3d/tutorials-hg2/blob/master/scene_vr.py

[rich barn]

Thanks. Not really trying to make a game from API though. I do have a plan for making a VR game but I'll definitely use a game engine instead.

I'm currently working with the API directly because it's a non-game project and can't use game engines 🙂

[snow hill]

Interesting

Is that a legal issue ?

What prevents you from using a game engine ?

[rich barn]

I guess I can. It's just not super convenient. I'm making a tool that allows custom mapping from VR controllers to mouse/keyboard input, so that I can use my VR controllers to navigate my PC desktop when I get my PC connected to my living room TV. As you can imagine, sending direct calls to create mouse/keyboard actions within a game engine is either complex, or probably just impossible when the game window isn't in focus.

[snow hill]

You don’t even need a rendering window

[rich barn]

Yeah no

[snow hill]

Just the input system 🙂

Ok, makes sense 🙂

[dawn quiver]

🙂

[wind birch]

how do u create a game using python?

[dawn quiver]

ya do

[dawn quiver]

Create mechanics, sprites, a game theme and bam

[wind birch]

ik but how like can i have some context

#discord-bots

[frozen knoll]

@wind birch you can look at https://arcade.acadmy for samples.

[west pollen]

Thank you, would definitely watch it

[next estuary]

Anybody have a good example of training bots to play games? I want to teach an AI to play the Catan clone I'm making

[snow hill]

nice !!!!
What 3D engine are you working with ?

[dapper iris]

where can i get help with pygame

i need a non judgemental person cause i made some weird sh*t

[next estuary]

Ursina

[dawn quiver]

how weird we talking

[dapper iris]

lvl 100

tolerable but disturbing

[dawn quiver]

lol 18+?

[dapper iris]

idk

not exactly child friendly

[dawn quiver]

lmfao

[dapper iris]

but not a sex game

[dawn quiver]

kk

im 14 so imma head out

[dapper iris]

damn

i'm 15 tho

its not porn

its just 16-rated meme culture sort of

nvm i found the solution

[summer hatch]

Hello I have a pygame question. I am trying to make asteroids and wanted to get the harder stuff out of the way first. How can I make a triangle (ship) point at where the mouse is on screen?

[next estuary]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10473930/how-do-i-find-the-angle-between-2-points-in-pygame
Adapt the answers here to make the ship point at the mouse

from math import atan2, degrees, pi
dx = x2 - x1
dy = y2 - y1
rads = atan2(-dy,dx)
rads %= 2*pi
degs = degrees(rads)

This will let you calculate the angle between two points

[wind birch]

o ok ty

[quiet galleon]

Can anyone please help me in pygame??

[potent ice]

You just ask the question. Never ask to ask. Some good tips here : https://www.pythondiscord.com/pages/guides/pydis-guides/asking-good-questions/

[summer hatch]

Thank you lots

[next estuary]

No prob! Good luck on your pythoning adventure

[summer hatch]

Thanks figured I could practice some solid OOP with asteroids and I enjoy pygame so I said why not

[dawn quiver]

Hi. Anyone there?

[dawn quiver]

gonna need some vector maths for that and maybe some trigonometry. Not too hard to learn.

[sick eagle]

How make???

[vague panther]

Hello guys, should i learn pygame or c++ for game development

[mild escarp]

Rn I'm doing pygame

[frozen knoll]

If you are just learning, I'd recommend something like pygame or Arcade to start. Then jump to unreal or unity. Godot is pretty good too.

[exotic niche]

Pygame is good

[spring shuttle]

hey

whats wrong with this code, why is it throwing errors-

what is the error in this C code -

include<stdio.h>

include<stdlib.h>

int main(){
//2d arrays
int nums[3][2] = {
{1,2},
{3,4},
{5,6},

                    };
 int i, j;
 for (i= 0, i<3, i++){
     for(j=0, j<2, j++){
         printf("%i", nums[i][j]);
     };
     printf("\n");
 };
return 0;

[potent ice]

C is very off topic here unless it's related to python C extensions (different channel for that)

[severe wedge]

If i do this as an example would the program basically stop until i return Lol?

Lol = hehelol(LOL)
Lol += 2
Print Lol

[potent ice]

Depends what the hehelol function does

[snow hill]

In the two for() statements, replace all the , by a ;

And there is a missing closing bracket in the end

But really the compiler should tell you that already:)

[dawn quiver]

https://garticphone.com/en/?c=01e48e5f78

[honest coyote]

can someone help me make a menu

[stable pewter]

I’m trying to write my first pygame game and having an issue loading a png and was hoping someone could help or point me in the right direction. I am using pygame.image.load(os.path.join(‘graphics’,’Sky.png)) and every time I run my script it says “pygame.error : File is not a Windows BMP file” I have looked at the docs and I believe I am loading the png the right way

[dawn quiver]

Can I ask a question please? :))

I am learning pygame and I want a sprite move toward another, I have done a few search but no result. Thanks for all helps!

[spare phoenix]

do you wan to control your sprite using arrow keys. Or have it move on its on?

[spare phoenix]

try putting the image in your project file. Then do pygame.image.load(your image)

[stable pewter]

@spare phoenix thanks for the advice. That didn’t work either. Turns out when I installed pygame into a venv something got all messed up. Tried reinstalling it into an venv a couple times but it wasn’t seeing python3-dev packages so I ended up installing it globally and it all works now.

[spare phoenix]

That’s interesting. Glad it worked out for you.

[latent sun]

Question, so I want to make a python ai that is able to play TF2 and beat other bots (on my own server)

Any idea as to modules I can use. Would be cool if I could do similar sorta things with other games

[burnt lodge]

Unity

[dapper iris]

can please with pygame collision detection

[dapper iris]

nevermind i solved it by myself

said every programmer ever

*never

[latent sun]

any ideas

[robust wadi]

are you experienced with unity?

because Idk why the hell my avatar isn't showing up, when I click the + it just says none and drag and drop doesn't work either

[mossy moth]

why isnt pygame movement working when in a class?

i have a function and everything but it wont move it

[fast basalt]

I'm fairly new to pygame and I'm trying to make a 2D plaformer but I don't know how to change the image of my character, any ideas?

[proven iris]

2D = sprite animation

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

[burnt lodge]

Instead of drag and drop u could press the small dot next to the filling space it will show u what u can insert there

[maiden crane]

oo

[next estuary]

Best python module for 3D games imo

[robust wadi]

yeah that didn't work either but I figured out what the problem has been already, still thank you!

[broken acorn]

Hi! I want to learn about pygame but I'm not quite sure where to start off, any suggestions?

[gilded portal]

realpython has a great starting course that I used to get the basis. Many other resources of course but this is simply the one I know
https://realpython.com/pygame-a-primer/#:~:text= Basic Game Design 1 Importing and,control gameplay. ... Every cycle... More

[burnt lodge]

Ur welcome 🙃 🍞

[stuck parrot]

hii

[dapper iris]

depends on what you what you plan to make and how much time you have...

but if you want to learn the basics of pygame and or game devlopment then the freecodecamp on where i learned

[wheat dawn]

Making game with python 💀

[acoustic herald]

Does anyone have tips for improving the performance of Pygame and Python?

[normal silo]

It depends on the specific game being made. More information is needed.

Profile your game and then ask a question about the slow parts.

[acoustic herald]

A platformer.

Moving is slow.

It has animations and images and stuff.

[normal silo]

Moving is slow, as in your character controller does a lot of work?

[acoustic herald]

Yeah, i guess so.

[normal silo]

Let's not guess. Profile your game.

[acoustic herald]

Yeah then

[normal silo]

A platformer should not be slow unless you have a lot of entities or particles or something like that.

[acoustic herald]

Well, i think that the animations are making it slow.

[normal silo]

The player's animations? All animations?

[acoustic herald]

Player animations.

[maiden crane]

hi

[dawn quiver]

hello 🙂

[dawn quiver]

would you like to see what ive been working on?

[normal silo]

How are you doing animations?

[maiden crane]

sure!!

[dawn quiver]

!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 floppy disk icon in the top right, or by typing ctrl + S. After doing that, the URL should change. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[dawn quiver]

@maiden crane ^^^

[dawn quiver]

https://github.com/Vaxeral/Match

[maiden crane]

looks cool

[dawn quiver]

did you notice this lil guy?

i drew him. hes from pikmin.

[raw shadow]

hey guys, so i want to make a game in js right, whats a js library that most resembles pygame such as its resemblance to the structure of pygame and the way things are done in a sense

[dawn quiver]

why use js instead of python?

and are you zixtry?

[raw shadow]

i need to have the game on the web

[raw shadow]

what?

[dawn quiver]

ok nevermind i guess not. your pfp looks similar to someone i know

[acoustic herald]

Just rendering images after each other.

[normal silo]

Should not be slow then.

Maybe a bug.

Need some code to be able to tell.

[frank field]

@stiff bronze Per Rule 6, your invite link has been removed. If you believe this was a mistake, please let staff know!

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[little dawn]

hey, is there any lightweight game engine which uses python(insstead of commonly used c++) like unity, godot.... which can make both 2d and 3d games?

[normal silo]

Unity does not use Python, Godot can use Python, and can do both 2D and 3D.

[little dawn]

but godot uses gd script right?

i-i mean pygame is only for 2d right?

[normal silo]

Godot uses many languages, gd script is the recommended built in language (C# is also fully supported as an option).

Pygame is for 2D games (though you can do 3D if you try really hard, but I don't recommend it).

[little dawn]

so we can use python in it also?
also if you know any more lightweight free game engines pls tell me

[normal silo]

There is not really any lightweight 3D game engines that have more than the bare bones in terms of features.

[little dawn]

ohk

[normal silo]

(Because 3D is complicated)

[little dawn]

yeah

i was asking similar to godot

if not can u suggest some sources where we can use python in godot

[normal silo]

If you mean beginner friendly, and has Python, then I recommend either Ursina or Godot (with Python extension, but you can also just do gd script since gd script is very Python-like).

[little dawn]

some youtube tutorials mabey

[little dawn]

yeh yeh beginner friendly

[normal silo]

Ursina is pretty straight forward, the community for it is very helpful. It lacks the giant community of something like Godot or Unity, but it gives the easiest, fastest access to making 3D games with Python.

[little dawn]

oh thanks

gotta check that out

[gaunt mountain]

Anyone wanna be my teammate for pygame??
I also want some experience so that's why too

[dawn quiver]

do want a teammate for a mini-project or you need help to solve a bug...

?

[gaunt mountain]

I jst want for a mini project and we gonna gelp each other too anytime

[dawn quiver]

ok, actually i cant be your full-time teammate...

[gaunt mountain]

Not full time

Like jst for help

Uk

[dawn quiver]

but still...feel free to ask-out for help...

[dawn quiver]

UPBGE? it uses python, but I've never tried it

It takes less than an hour for learning gdscript it's damn easy, godot's your best shot :)

[dawn quiver]

im using SDL2. When running my game my texture blur together like in the image.

its hard to tell but on my screen its definitely there

im rendering to texture first then i render it to the screen.

[fierce wraith]

Make sure you set the texture mode to "nearest" if you don't want interpolation

[dawn quiver]

thanks

[dawn quiver]

wait actually this still doesnt do anything

i tried setting it with a sdl2 hint

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_HINT_RENDER_SCALE_QUALITY

SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_RENDER_SCALE_QUALITY, "0");

[graceful marsh]

!warn 902273081744166953 Please don't post unrelated content in random channels

[frank field]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied warning to @sly topaz.

[gaunt mountain]

Hii
Anyone wanna be my teammate in makin games?

[fair flax]

no reply...

[meager osprey]

how i could import tilemap from a json file (exported from tiled) in pygame?

[meager osprey]

i can

[gaunt mountain]

Then dm me

[gaunt mountain]

Pygame code
I am making a clicker game but when i press the key then it jst goes and goes and goes
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/hasetudaca.properties
I want to make a clicker game
So i don't want that
I want like
When i click or even hold w the playerYChange should only go up by 1
No matter how much time i hold it i gotta click it another time to get it to 2

[random pasture]

I'm surprised SVGs aren't used for hame development and PNGs are widely adopted

[modest crow]

if i pip install pygame
does that version of pygame has type annotations?

i am using pygame.font.SysFont() to display text.
name for the font can be None, but it seems like pyright doesn't like it,

it shows this
1. Argument of type "str | None" cannot be assigned to parameter "name" of type "str | bytes | Iterable[str | bytes]" in function "SysFont"

and SysFont signature seems to be

(function) SysFont: (name: str | bytes | Iterable[str | bytes], size: int, bold: Hashable = False, italic: Hashable = False) -> Font```

in the source code

def SysFont(name, size, bold=False, italic=False, constructor=None):

i can't find anyplace where types are written

am i missing something?

[proper peak]

That means it's likely using a stub file

search for a file with a pyi extension in the package

[modest crow]

YES!!!

thanks

found it

is it like a error or something?

[proper peak]

what do you mean?

[modest crow]

name can also be None plus others

[proper peak]

I don't see where in this type hint it says that name can be None.

[modest crow]

yes it doesn't

but if it is None it uses default font

but it isn't in the type annotation

[proper peak]

The font name can also be an iterable of font names, a string of comma-separated font names, or a bytes of comma-separated font names, in which case the set of names will be searched in order.
I don't see the docs mention it can be None either

so if it is the case, it's not documented

[modest crow]

should i open an issue or something?

[proper peak]

yeah, you can

how do you know it accepts None, by the way? From the code?

[modest crow]

yes

[proper peak]

then yeah, make an issue that this behaviour isn't documented nor reflected in the typehint

[modest crow]

okay, thanks for the help

[dawn quiver]

I made that for school and because I'm a complete no-life I'd like to share it with you, 100 times more experienced internet folks

[safe spade]

Suisse ou français?

[dawn quiver]

suisse

why ?

[safe spade]

Your text is in french

[dawn quiver]

indeed

[distant badge]

hi

which languages are recommended for game development?

[magic flare]

which are good certificates for game devel, for employment specifically? I am doing CS degree rn. Thanks!

[magic flare]

C#, C++, Java

[torpid siren]

This is Kal who has much experience in full stack & blockchain & game development

I implemented several P2E games on blockchain and Defi, marketplace and DAO projects.
If you are interested in, please feel free to DM me

Here are my skill sets.

[BLOCKCHAIN]
✪ NFT marketplace, Defi, Solidity, Web3.js, Ethers.js, Ethereum, Solana, Algorand
[FRONT END]
✪ React, Next, Vue, Nuxt, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, Material UI, Styled Component
[BACK END]
✪ Node.js, Express, Nest, Laravel, Python,
[DATABASE]
✪ MongoDB, MySQL, Firebase,

[gaunt mountain]

Pygame code
I am making a clicker game but when i press the key then it jst goes and goes and goes
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/hasetudaca.properties
I want to make a clicker game
So i don't want that
I want like
When i click or even hold w the playerYChange should only go up by 1
No matter how much time i hold it i gotta click it another time to get it to 2

[fallow glade]

Put py PlayerYChange = 0at the end of the while True loop

[stuck parrot]

hwo should i start gam dev

[timid mango]

first tilemap system

[tranquil girder]

nice

[dawn quiver]

very cool. try to make it editable through your program.

[strange gazelle]

Hello I'm newher

here

[potent ice]

o/

[fallow glade]

Ola

[grand whale]

good luck 🙂

[grand whale]

making isometric game in python

[solar raven]

Is it possible to learn python by coding in mobile? (With the Pydroid app)

Tag me for reply

[grand whale]

yea

i learned it from that app

nostaglia

old days

when i doesnt have an computer

but lots problems will come with indentations

@solar raven

but then also u can learn

[solar raven]

Oh wow, glad to hear that from someone who coded from mobile! Thanks a ton man! Time to start python soon then

[grand whale]

do you see my isomtric game

?

[solar raven]

Yes, it looks amazing!

[grand whale]

thx

[solar raven]

How many lines of codes it took?

[grand whale]

2k or 1k

[grand whale]

lines

[fathom oxide]

You can finally counter the classic “get off your phone and get to work “

[obsidian abyss]

how is this guys

[solar raven]

Dayummm

[solar raven]

Hahaha yeaa

[vague panther]

hello guys sorry to interrupt, just wanted to ask, if i wanna get into game dev, should i go for C# or python (pygame), or C++

[normal silo]

All of them.

Roll a die.

[vague panther]

what should i start with?

[normal silo]

Python, this is a python server.

[vague panther]

okk

thankss

[round obsidian]

For those who are curious, I did a one hour one man game jam https://xtaloid.itch.io/blaster

[grand whale]

Good for an 1 hour game :)

[round obsidian]

I thought so!

[grand whale]

U only showing code

[obsidian abyss]

u want output

?

i can show

[grand whale]

Yea

[obsidian abyss]

wait

[grand whale]

Btw you are Madara uchia the ghost uchia

are you reanimated again?

LOL

[obsidian abyss]

yea

@grand whale \

the output

[grand whale]

Ok

Oh cool

its prerry good

*pretty

[obsidian abyss]

thx

bye

i have work

[grand whale]

Bye

[dawn quiver]

!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 floppy disk icon in the top right, or by typing ctrl + S. After doing that, the URL should change. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[dawn quiver]

one punch man is cool

[valid cosmos]

Can anyone show the search bar in the exploxer file when it's hidden?

[safe spade]

My game library is now in opengl, so you can make steam game with it. Here's the url : https://github.com/ModAndThink/BaguetteEngine/tree/0.0.4

[west hamlet]

why are you using relp.it?

thats almost as disgusting as using spaces

[wise girder]

Does this have to do with game-development or just your math homework?

[west hamlet]

ohh no wrong channel

[wise girder]

Ok

[west hamlet]

but to answer your question

yes

[wise girder]

I see

I can't help you tho. Goodbye

You could learn octave online

[dawn quiver]

is there a more concise way of writing this?

               int edge = MATCH_GEM_BOARD_EDGE_NONE;
                int index = gem - state;
                int left = 0, right = 0, top = 0, bottom = 0;
                if(index % columns == 0)
                {
                    left = 1;
                }
                if(index % columns == columns - 1)
                {
                    right = 1;
                }
                if(index / columns == 0)
                {
                    top = 1;
                }
                if(index / columns == rows - 1)
                {
                    bottom = 1;
                }

                if(top && left)
                    edge = MATCH_GEM_BOARD_EDGE_TOP_LEFT;
                else if(top && right)
                    edge = MATCH_GEM_BOARD_EDGE_TOP_RIGHT;
                else if(bottom && left)
                    edge = MATCH_GEM_BOARD_EDGE_BOTTOM_LEFT;
                else if(bottom && right)
                    edge = MATCH_GEM_BOARD_EDGE_BOTTOM_RIGHT;
                else if(top)
                    edge = MATCH_GEM_BOARD_EDGE_TOP;
                else if(bottom)
                    edge = MATCH_GEM_BOARD_EDGE_BOTTOM;
                else if(left)
                    edge = MATCH_GEM_BOARD_EDGE_LEFT;
                else if(right)
                    edge = MATCH_GEM_BOARD_EDGE_RIGHT;
                else
                    edge = MATCH_GEM_BOARD_EDGE_CENTER;

[tranquil girder]

you can do top = index / columns == 0for example, at least in python

[dawn quiver]

oh yeah your right thanks

[frank field]

Hey @mental sun!

It looks like you tried to attach a Python file - please use a code-pasting service such as https://paste.pythondiscord.com

[mental sun]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/otaroqajej.php guys help this lok creative pls

[subtle monolith]

Hi, I have some trouble with pygame so I need help. I don't know if i'm in the right channel sry. I think I have a beginner level. Sorry for my bad English, I'm french 😅

[olive parcel]

You should just ask your question, don't ask to ask

[summer abyss]

in what language

[round obsidian]

Python

[summer abyss]

ooo love it

i'll reach your skill one day

[round obsidian]

I have another one also written in Python: https://xtaloid.itch.io/xtaloid

[summer abyss]

how long did that take

[round obsidian]

I've been working on it for months, on and off (mostly off as I have been doing other things)

[summer abyss]

thats so cool

im assuming you're in the job market

[round obsidian]

no, I do this for fun

[summer abyss]

not even a student?

[round obsidian]

oh, I have a job, sure

[summer abyss]

but not in tech

[round obsidian]

Not directly. I work for a company that publishes stuff for a tech audience

[summer abyss]

that sounds enjoyable

[round obsidian]

it's fun! and I get to write about this kind of stuff

[split wigeon]

hihi I am trying to make a pygame

its basically a text based game

[stone shadow]

quit

[covert lagoon]

Is it a text game or a pygame lol

[split wigeon]

Text game

[plush pebble]

Whats the simplest way to get keybinds? Like if I press A to do something

[covert lagoon]

Using what library?

[plush pebble]

any

I prefferably one that works when the window isnt open

[lunar venture]

keyboard works

Just make it a pyw file so it doesn't get a console window

[lunar venture]

Well tkinter won't do the job (Minecraft's window takes priority in full screen mode)

I know that from experience

[grand whale]

use pygame_gui

for gui stuff

[grand whale]

realtble LOL

import pygame_gui
from pygame_gui.elements import UITextBox


pygame.init()


pygame.display.set_caption('Multi-coloured Text')
window_surface = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600))
manager = pygame_gui.UIManager((800, 600))

background = pygame.Surface((800, 600))
background.fill(manager.ui_theme.get_colour('dark_bg'))

text_block = UITextBox('<font size=5>Enjoy a '
                       '<effect id=spin>'
                       '<font color=#fc2847>R</font>'
                       '<font color=#ffa343>A</font>'
                       '<font color=#fdfc74>I</font>'
                       '<font color=#71bc78>N</font>'
                       '<font color=#0f4c81>B</font>'
                       '<font color=#7442c8>O</font>'
                       '<font color=#fb7efd>W</font></effect>'
                       ' of colours with Pygame GUI</font>',
                       pygame.Rect((275, 140), (250, 120)),
                       manager=manager)

text_block.set_active_effect(pygame_gui.TEXT_EFFECT_TILT, effect_tag='spin')

clock = pygame.time.Clock()
is_running = True

while is_running:
    time_delta = clock.tick(60)/1000.0
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            is_running = False

        manager.process_events(event)

    manager.update(time_delta)

    window_surface.blit(background, (0, 0))
    manager.draw_ui(window_surface)

    pygame.display.update()```

basic code of pygame_gui

hopefully this helps you

btw install the pacake

*pacage

pakcage

oh

yea

its very easy

are you new to game dev?

i can help you

are making minecraft title screen?

or smthing else?

can you send a image

sorry i didnt understand it

[dawn quiver]

is there a way to make a 3d game?

[exotic niche]

Ursina

[sick eagle]

hey i have idea for insane game but i am not skilled in programming, i need programmers to script game and i model game with blender

[dawn quiver]

late reply, but yes - it'll be painful though.

try getting a pc asap

[grand whale]

U also coded in mobile

[dawn quiver]

nah

[grand whale]

Mostly because of indentation

[dawn quiver]

I started learning on a pc, but ive tried coding on a phone and it isn't as bad as people make it to be

[grand whale]

Yea

I coded in mobile for 6 months

As a begginer

Pydroid

[dawn quiver]

def main():
    global game_speed
    run = True
    clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    dino = Dinosaur()
    cloud = Cloud()
    game_speed = 14

    while run:
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                run = False
        
        SCREEN.fill((255, 255, 255))
        userInput = pygame.key.get_pressed()
        dino.draw(SCREEN)
        dino.update(userInput)
        cloud.draw(SCREEN)
        cloud.update(userInput)
        pygame.display.update()
        clock.tick(30)

it tell me that cloud.update() takes one input, but 2 where given

nvm

[wheat ruin]

i tried running it, is that all of it?

[dawn quiver]

sorry i fixed it

[wheat ruin]

i send u friend request

[dawn quiver]

turns out i forgot to put userInput in the cloud.update

[wheat ruin]

tbh i have no idea what that means

[dawn quiver]

ok so basically

i forgot to put an arg in the cloud.update function

[wheat ruin]

ok i tried running it again, and all that pops up is the python shell

[dawn quiver]

ill just send u the code

[wheat ruin]

thanks man, your really cool for doing this👍

[distant badge]

What language is mostly used for game development?

C++ or C#?

thanks

[normal silo]

Neither.

[distant badge]

really?

which one is being currently used?

[normal silo]

Both.

[distant badge]

ohh hahaha

alright

thank you!

[wheat ruin]

@dawn quiver

[spare kestrel]

#rules - Rule no.8

[dawn quiver]

e

[dawn quiver]

i legit just blocked him for it

[serene patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb8cBmRZ9lg

Source code and explanation-

https://github.com/YashIndane/Call-of-Duty-

[arctic hamlet]

hey guys

i am on a gamejam

[rocky kettle]

Hi all, I just made this new text adventure! I'm really new to python so this is a really big step for me. I really want some feedback on how I can make this better.

https://github.com/atwoyearold14/The-Scary-Story

[potent ice]

No one learns anything from this. Be more specific about your negative experiences with these libraries.

Ok. So you think it was too hard to learn.

I'm not quite following. You'll bump into difficult things regardless of language.

[storm fog]

Hi Guys

I am Bash, I have made a Project Using Computer Vision, and A.I, and i would like to show it to you.

[potent ice]

Is this game related?

[storm fog]

Yeah it's like an AI

app

and it has one game in it too which i will add

like that is a game which finds the distnace bwteeen your pc and your hands

THIS IS HOW THE UI of the app looks like

[potent ice]

I still don't see how this is fully game related 😄

[storm fog]

like you can see hand distance right

it is a game, it finds the disntace between ur hand and pc camera

at diffrent positions in the game

[potent ice]

Nice work. I guess at the very least we can say that these are tools that can be used in games. I think that is acceptable 🙂

[grand whale]

??

yea

but not that hard bro

he used mediapipe to make it

it very easy libray

anyone can make it

its a childs play

chucky : childs play LOL

[still wigeon]

hey anyone has worked with Ren’Py

[tranquil girder]

why do you ask?

[azure atlas]

Hey, i have a very nice idea i want to share (still no development), if u wanna know more dm me

its a pretty cool project

[rocky kettle]

...

[potent ice]

We try to keep things out in the open here. You should share a bit more about your projects or I would take this as a concealed attempt to sell bots. There is a lot you can say about your project without revealing too much.

[rocky kettle]

what do you all think about this? its my first big project. and im fairly new to python

https://github.com/atwoyearold14/The-Scary-Story.git

[dark mango]

hello i am syed
Age- prefer not to say
Hobbies- Games Art Collecting Money
Dislike- Bad words people not believieng me

[candid cape]

Hey PyGame folks - anyone know why when TensorFlow loads pygame keeps opening? I'm getting lots of

pygame 2.1.2 (SDL 2.0.18, Python 3.9.9)
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
pygame 2.1.2 (SDL 2.0.18, Python 3.9.9)
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
pygame 2.1.2 (SDL 2.0.18, Python 3.9.9)
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
pygame 2.1.2 (SDL 2.0.18, Python 3.9.9)
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
pygame 2.1.2 (SDL 2.0.18, Python 3.9.9)
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
pygame 2.1.2 (SDL 2.0.18, Python 3.9.9)

I have my pygame init protected by a if __name__ == "__main__": check

[tranquil girder]

the pygame init, sure, but the import too?

[candid cape]

it's protected in my main.py entry point but not modules

[candid cape]

Turns out I needed to call https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html#multiprocessing.freeze_support

[dawn quiver]

guys why i get this error in my game loop? RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison

i also get this error. RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

[grand whale]

?

hmm its a game dev channel

[dark mango]

Can you

[dawn quiver]

@dark mango i don't believe you, lol

[azure atlas]

looking for devs btw

[potent meteor]

I was reading back out of sheer interest in what you guys are doing in gaming with Python and.. this is one of the most bizarre channels in this Discord server.

[scenic dome]

What are some game engines you use? I use Panda3D but I do not know how limited it is.

[wintry jasper]

How do I have an idea to make a 3d lol game you want too much memory from the server?
on web

[autumn hazel]

they are trying to make a 3d lol (league of legends) game and are wondering how much memory the servers should have

for a bit of context transferred from web-development channel

[wintry jasper]

yes

+-

[fading whale]

@azure atlas If you're interested in working on a project with other people, please discuss the details here. We aren't too keen on members asking other members to DM them, as it puts our members at risk of scams and exploitation.

I've been fairly lenient so far in allow you to discuss this, as we do have rules against promotion and recruitment.

If it is an offer of a paid role, it is explicitly not allowed.

[azure atlas]

its not lol

[fading whale]

Do you have a GitHub repo for this project? <- An example of information you could provide.

But I'm going to have to say no more "DM me for info" posts please.

[azure atlas]

yeah

https://github.com/osam7a/Unnamed-Game-Lib-/

[potent ice]

That project doesn't have a license. It basically means you have exclusive right to all the code.

That is a major red flag if this is supposed to be an open source project

I would suggest MIT or BSD license to make it simple 🙂

[novel relic]

i need help ;c

[leaden glacier]

can someone explain the "invalid destination position for blit" error for pygame for me? I googled it and still don't understand /:

[dense drift]

can you add me on disc please :) @modern scarab

[lunar siren]

Hey I need help with pygame

here is my window. The bigger white box is a something like a hitbox I am making. I was wondering how I can get the player image in the center of the white box instead of in the corner.

[arctic hamlet]

R u using get_rect

[polar fossil]

is there a kind of code which sees if the first letter of the input of user is a certain letter ?

[arctic hamlet]

Yes u can

If text[0] == 'Letter':
     pass

[pine plinth]

s.startswith(c)

[grand whale]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/554141616076488706/933751308903665725/pygame_window_2022-01-20_20-40-20_Trim.mp4

[grand whale]

Let me tell you

do like this

screen.blit(image,(100,100))

@leaden glacier

[leaden glacier]

I figured it out lol, I was blitting them to list items as coordinates, but instead of doing 2 at a time, I was using every number in the list

[grand whale]

Howfully this helps you :)

[leaden glacier]

Thanks though!

[grand whale]

Oh

[leaden glacier]

I'm used to Tkinter errors that say like "Expected 2 arguments, got 14" or something, which is much different than pygame

[grand whale]

Hmm its in a list thats why

Ig

[snow hill]

https://github.com/harfang3d/game-winter-z-hg2

Flappy Bird-like in a zombie-ish world

all in Python :>

[barren halo]

Hello, I'm looking to make a Catan universe mock up, and was wondering if anyone in here could lead me in the right direction of which programming language or libraries I should use

It's a 2d board game.

[next estuary]

@barren halo hello, I've been working on a catan implementation in python using the Ursina Engine,
https://github.com/LyfeOnEdge/Hexplorers-of-the-Grid
It's still very WIP but I hope it is useful to you!

[desert kernel]

What is this masterpiece my guy

[next estuary]

Wdym? It's not even finished lol.

[desert kernel]

Your jesus, I've never seen a game in its demo version this good

This is even making me blind