I like to do fun stuff when learning a new language. I've been working with Python for a little while on real world problems mostly fixing bugs and writing a simulator for work.
I was thinking as a hobby project developing a simple 2d game (think Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, LoadRunner) and mentioned this to my 14 year old nephew. About a week later I got a full write up for a game that he wrote and would like to play. So I figure why not take his write up and turn it into a game as an exercise in fun and learning more about Python? I think I need at least this: 2D graphics, sound, input (kbd, mouse, joystick maybe), some IPC might be nice (Stuff like: Sockets, TCP, UDP, pipes, msg queues, shared memory). The IPC stuff would only be used if I decide to allow some multi-player over a network. I've been playing with Pygame some in my late night hobby time. I'm wondering what else I should be looking at since I'm not all that impressed with Pygame so far. Maybe it is the right library, but maybe it's not. Please don't point me to a list of choices. I've seen all the lists. I've done my reading. What I don't have is actual testimonials by people who have used a chunk of code to program an animated 2D game and had a great experience. I am mainly developing on Windows XP using Python 2.5.1. I also have multiple Linux boxes that I am migrating my life to and so any game needs to be platform independent because I'll be on Linux full time soon. If it's going to run on Windows and Linux, I think it should run on Mac too. I've been developing systems and programs for over 20 years. Languages I'm an expert in include C, C++, Java. I have a strong working knowledge and have developed non-trivial software in Smalltalk and Lisp. Thanks if you can help. And no, writing some graphics library myself is not an option, I need the leverage, this is a hobby. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
