PyGame has increased my productivity as a research by an order of magnitude. Experiment that used to take me weeks to code up in C/X11 I can write in an hour or 2 using pygame and they are more portable.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Florian Krause <siebenhundertz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I create my experiments in PyGame so I figured I would cite it just >>> like the people who create their experiments in software like E-Prime. >>> >> >> Cool. by the way, I think it's really great that PyGame is used in >> experiments, and is getting cited somewhere! >> > > Actually, we created a Python package that was specifically made for > this purpose, which is also heavily based on PyGame > (http://expyriment.googlecode.com). In fact, PyGame is very suited for > these kind of things, since it handles most important aspects > regarding stimulus presentation and user input. If you think about it, > at a certain level, experiments and video games are have a lot in > common. And PyGame is a superb package for game programming in Python. > So for most people who want to write experiments in Python, the first > stop will always be PyGame. > > Florian > > > > > -- > www.fladd.de - fladd.de: Homepage of Florian Krause > blog.fladd.de - fladd's Blog: Blog of Florian Krause > intermezzo.fladd.de - Intermezzo: Music by Florian Krause and Giacomo Novembre > -- Ryan Hope, M.S. CogWorks Lab Department of Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
