On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Nathan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just saw "100 Game Maker Games", a cool 10 minute video that shows > the wide variety of cool games you can make with Game Maker. > > http://playthisthing.com/100-game-maker-games > > There should be something like this but with Python and pygame! > > My friends at UCSC have taught intro programming using Game Maker, and > it went well but they were ultimately unhappy with GML (the Game Maker > scripting language) as a first programming language. When I taught > game programming I went straight for pygame and Python (of course). > It worked out pretty well, but the students had to spend quite a bit > of time figuring out programming concepts before they could even get a > square moving around on the screen. > > Would you use a graphical tool like Game Maker to make your games if > it used pygame and was extensible using Python? Why or why not? What > would such a tool have to do to be useful? > -- > Nathan > Possibly — it'd make things a bit easier for me; I haven't the right mindset for coding (yet).
