Solarwolf is REALLY awesome. You could stay addicted to that for hours!
On 4/30/07, Horst JENS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:23 +0200, DR0ID wrote:
> I have installed ubuntu 7.04 recently and found pygame in the synaptics
> system. (it had a somewhat strange name, cant re
turday 28 April 2007 11:45:15 am DR0ID wrote:
> >> Charles Joseph Christie II schrieb:
> >>> On Saturday 28 April 2007 01:28:38 am Kris Schnee wrote:
> >>>> Charles Christie wrote:
> >>>>> Well, bullets just seem to be a sticking point fo
Well, bullets just seem to be a sticking point for me. Just when I think I
have code that'll work, I get hit with another problem. This time, I get
almost done. There is a bullet class, that adds 50 bullets to a bullet
container array, and then fires them. Or, rather, it should fire them. But
you
vent.key in [K_e,K_i,K_KP8]:
player.xmove -=3
On 4/26/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It worked!
>
> ...but I confused x and y. o_O
>
> On 4/26/07, Charles Christie < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > oooh. Lemme try
It worked!
...but I confused x and y. o_O
On 4/26/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
oooh. Lemme try that...
On 4/26/07, Aaron Maupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Just scanning your code,
>
> Charles Christie wrote:
>
>
oooh. Lemme try that...
On 4/26/07, Aaron Maupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just scanning your code,
Charles Christie wrote:
> if event.key == K_e or K_i or K_KP8:
> player.xmove = -3
should probably be:
't get why it's moving diagonally down. It doesn't make sense...
I'll update the svn repository later with my new code (there's lots of
changes) when I get the chance so that you don't have to look at the code in
the middle of an e-mail.
On 4/25/07, Charles Christie <
Interested ++;
On 4/25/07, Kamilche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, color me interested. There's not enough pages devoted to advanced
topics such as pathfinding and particle effects, in most game books.
Throw in a 'line of sight' pathfinding routine that uses polygons
instead of pixels for it
Of course, if you would rather release them for free, we wouldn't mind much
either. ;D
On 4/25/07, Kamilche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Will McGugan wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've just posted a module to do sub-pixel blitting with 2D PyGame.
> Hopefuly someone will find it useful!
>
> http://www.wi
Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kris Schnee wrote:
> Charles Christie wrote:
>> Kris: I did the typing part. Now I want to have a character that the
>> person playing the game can move across the screen.
>
> Would this graphics engine be of any use?
> &
Yes, the best way is to just give the source and datafiles. Say the versions
of Python, Pygame and Psyco (although I don't think that would be strictly
required as a dep, would it?), and if you don't have them already to install
them from your package manager.
On 4/24/07, Brian Bull <[EMAIL PROTE
I learned today that svn leaves a .svn directory in each working directory
that has pretty much all of the information about it.
svn://commons.game-host.org:3670/TypeNine
There's the svn directory, if anyone wants to take a look at it.
On 4/24/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Oops, I forgot the SVN url. But for some reason it got removed because the
svn client wasn't in my PATH (I forgot to install it since I'm running off
of a LiveCD)
Oops.
On 4/24/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kris: I did the typing part. Now I want to have a ch
great idea, and sounds more simple too. I'll give that a go right
now. You guys are the best, for real. ;)
On 4/24/07, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Christie wrote:
> So, I've finally gotten to the point where I want to make playable
> characters
self.rect is already used by the pygame.sprite.Sprite class.
On 4/24/07, Samuel Mankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree with Jason. Also, self.rect is the predefined value for where
the widget is, I believe.
--Skizzaltix
Jason Massey wrote:
> Don't you think that the "explicit is better th
So, I've finally gotten to the point where I want to make playable
characters controllable. (took me long enough :P )
With that, I'd like to say I am very grateful to you. A few more questions
and I'll be off your back... for this project, at least. ;)
Now then, in my event cue I have it check f
en or
the character. I think I'll just make the bullets die when they hit people
instead of re-using them because there's no point in coding pretty now, as
my code is already ugly and I'm going to completely re-write it after school
is out. Thanks for all your help!
On 4/13/07, Char
I recommend Eric3. I think it has a Windows port, anyway. I use it every
day, and I find it much better than drpython.
On 4/13/07, Kris Schnee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Alright so when I run the "game.py" the console says error syntax then I
> can't read the rest bec
On 4/12/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Christie wrote:
> I just noticed something... You have an interval variable that is the
> number of ticks since the last frame. How would I pass the number of
> ticks since the last frame to the equation?
In my games, I just
) * self.speed * interval / 100
def render(self, te, suf):
## Just a simple render call. te.screenx and te.screeny are the
offset that the current viewport is at.
suf.blit(self.image, (self.x-te.screenx, self.y-te.screeny))
On 3/26/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTEC
27;t. My question is, what do I have
to put in all.add to get the bullets to actually show up on screen?
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:38:25 -0400
Kris Schnee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Christie wrote:
> > Now my questions are:
> >
> > A. If this is really all I ha
I have the same problem. That's one of the reasons I still haven't gotten
that far with my project... <_<
On 4/9/07, Kris Schnee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My biggest challenge so far, is trying to fully grasp OOP. (I pretty
much get it.. pretty much). As I just went
Darn... I'm confusing myself so bad with this... I hope I can get focused on
this again before school's out... have one of those days where I code half
of the program spontaneously, you know?
Urgh. This is nearly infuriating. It seemed so simple in my head but when I
go to code it the logic escap
It's a mixture between a typing game and a shoot-em-up game. I have the
typing part but I'm still working on the shooting part. :P
On 4/3/07, Diego Essaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/3/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've already started
I've already started on a game... but it sucks. :P
How hard would it be to go from pygame to qxp?
On 4/3/07, Mark Mruss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have not tried it out yet but I went over the tutorials and it looks
pretty slick. Too bad you didn't release it before pyweek! I would
have us
Sounds pretty cool... What, specifically, have you done that's different
than pygame?
On 4/3/07, Diego Essaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I have just uploaded a new, small game framework based on Pygame:
http://www.qb9.net/qxp/
We use it here at QB9 for quick prototyping, and I hope th
Ha! That makes things much easier to take in. So I was doing it partially
right. Thanks for the insight! You're a lifesaver.
The pygame mailing list is really great... I don't know what I'd do without
you guys!
On 4/1/07, andrew baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, I start by making a conta
creeny are the
offset that the current viewport is at.
suf.blit(self.image, (self.x-te.screenx, self.y-te.screeny))
On 3/26/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well, I'm trying to get my program to fire bullets now. Isn't that
> great?
>
> I th
Well, I'm trying to get my program to fire bullets now. Isn't that great?
I think I'm doing it all wrong though...
My problem has been that I don't know how to make the program fire bullets.
But then I thought, "shouldn't the character be firing the bullets, not the
program?" and it's then that
MAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 08:20 -0500, Charles Christie wrote:
> And this is why we don't code past our bed times. ^_^;; (at about
> 11:00 my brain cuts off)
> So... yeah, I'm surprised I didn't catch that myself... sorry for the
> trouble. I
And this is why we don't code past our bed times. ^_^;; (at about 11:00 my
brain cuts off)
So... yeah, I'm surprised I didn't catch that myself... sorry for the
trouble. I need to get more sleep...
On 3/5/07, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Joseph Christie II wrote:
> I hav
I know the basics of both Python and C, I took robotics and the robot's
programming was done in C.
I've learned how to use C but I've never actually done it, though. I've read
code, went bug hunting and used code in a robot but I've never actually done
something on my own in it yet.I know a little
Someone in my huge 50 thread email (I shouldn't have made it that big, it's
really hard to sort through now <_<) recommended that I change my game so
that it displays a cross with a word in each corner in it and have it
control the direction the character moves in by typing the word.
This idea se
So... I've seen it done in like a billion ways, but I don't know which way
is the best. So, if I wanted to make a character move like in an arcade
shoot-em-up game how would I do that? I've seen many different ways already
but I want to know what you guys recommend. One of the ones that interested
Troll.
On 2/15/07, Jer Juke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, you heard me. Normally I wouldn't feel any need
to pick out some random library and state how awful I
think it is. But this is not "some random library". It
is the "standard" game library for a most beautiful
language known far and wi
And in a rush, I made a typo and totally forgot to upload the file <_<
Go me. Anyway, sorry for the spam and mix up.
Hopefully I'll have sound effects soon (no way I'm clogging your inboxes
with that stuff though) and I still have to contact my cousin about
graphics.
On
I got nearly everything sorted out perfectly. The text isn't jumbled in the
middle, the scoring system almost works and game over events actually
produce results.
Man, this is getting better by the day, but the scoring system is acting up.
Does anybody see what I'm doing wrong?
The scoring syste
what I was trying to do. I
should read a little slower...
On 2/9/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I didn't think punctuation would work but that's an easy fix if I want
punctuation in later.
Now my only problem is that the pygame.event.Event(GAME_OVER_W)
But then it would only work on Windows, which means Mac and Linux users
(like me) wouldn't be able to use it.
What do you need that flash 7 can't do? Or are you like me and just like
higher version numbers for no reason?
On 2/9/07, Brian Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey Joan,
If you've
I didn't think punctuation would work but that's an easy fix if I want
punctuation in later.
Now my only problem is that the pygame.event.Event(GAME_OVER_W) or
pygame.event.Event(GAME_OVER_L) statements don't work at all.
On 2/8/07, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
.. but that shouldn't
be too much trouble...
Next week I'll be able to put that helpers.py file to some good use,
hopefully... ;P
On 2/8/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's exactly what I was looking for! But I couldn't find the "
unicode.isalp
h ones I wanted and which ones I didn't. Thank you so much, man! I owe
you!
On 2/8/07, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Christie wrote:
> Oh wait, what I was thinking for was something completely different. I
> actually have no clue on how to restrict the
or
all the keys I don't want to respond to... either way looks really long and
painful >.<
Please let me rephrase my question: Is there a clean way to make my program
only accept letters, numbers and number pad input and ignore everything
else?
On 2/8/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PRO
On 2/7/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Uh Good question. :P Time to go look at the documentation again!
But I'll do that tomorrow, it's getting kinda late.
On 2/7/07, Lenard Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Christie wrote:
> >
> &
Uh Good question. :P Time to go look at the documentation again!
But I'll do that tomorrow, it's getting kinda late.
On 2/7/07, Lenard Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Christie wrote:
>
> The next thing is events. I haven't checked if the program a
Alright, so I have attached my code to this message. Things are going
good... the only thing I have to do is finish repositioning text. Or at
least that's what I thought... When I started typing, after I pressed shift,
the combo counter kept resetting to 0 for some reason. I tried to edit my
if-el
I thought of doing that but figured that it would clutter inboxes or make it
seem like I was trying to artificially garner attention. I'll make a new
thread.
On 2/6/07, Rikard Bosnjakovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/6/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
&g
hat causes a "game over" event that would wipe
everything off of the screen and print "game over" and print your scores,
right? and I could even have a sort of "max combo" counter thing, because
that wouldn't be too hard to program either.
On 2/6/07, Luke Paireepina
t it would save me the time
of making 3 diffrent timers. Thanks for the hint!
On 2/5/07, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/5/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I would like to ask you guys another question. If you feel in the mood
> to help
still loading. That would ruin people's scores.
On 2/4/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ha~! I got it working! I went over my code and compared it to a pygame
example, and noticed I didn't add my new classes to the "all.add(textsprite)"
at the bottom
e, can you just say something? I want to get as good at this as I
can and I'm willing to invest as much time as I need to in order to make
this something memorable and net me that A+ that I really want. ;)
On 2/2/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Crap. My hard drive died
6:30 -0600
Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Christie wrote:
> > Aww it still doesn't work... am I doin' it right?
> What doesn't work?
> it's easier to give you help if you explain the problem you're having
> and only include
&g
ock.tick(30)
if __name__ == '__main__': main()
On 1/30/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, that's a good idea, actually. But that would require a LOT more
strategy as to how to program the bullet patterns and gameplay itself.
I have, howe
l, even on the hardest levels. I think my idea would be
easier to program but yours definitely, if I could think of a
practical idea for more of the game play, would be more... innovative.
Different. And different, as I always say, is good.
On 1/30/07, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Oh. :P
Interesting idea, but I really have no clue on how to program
something like that...
On 1/30/07, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Joseph Christie II wrote:
> Actually, you would only move if you held the "TAB" button, else you'd
> type.
>
He was suggesting an intrigui
Ah, I get it. I remember there being a section in a pygame tutorial I
read having this in it, but if I put them in another sprite class, how
is it going to get the number of combos from the textsprite class to
blit on screen?
On 1/29/07, Patrick Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok, first I thou
_': main()
*
So, I can't figure out why the words aren't appearing on screen... I
looked through the pygame API documentation to make sure I was doing
it right, but it didn't help. Well, actually it kinda did (I had to
convert the numbers to a string and it he
een a DVORAK keyboard so I would have no clue on how
to set it up for those.
I'm having a little more trouble but I'll ask about it later - I have
3D art class now, not senior project.
On 1/29/07, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Christie wrote:
> Oh, and Luk
Oh, and Luke, the game will be Open Source. So go ahead and modify it
for DVORAK or whatever. Do you really need to do that though? won't it
work fine with any kind of keyboard? Well, aside from the moving
parts. That would need modification for different keyboard types.
On 1/24/07, Ch
On 1/24/07, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sounds good. What's this business about combos?
Oh, and by the way, I'm in the process of writing a raycaster game engine.
Thought that might interest you since you were thinking of making a
first-person shooter typing game, right?
I wou
combo counter and
one that dictates how long you have to complete the whole list of
words. If the timer runs out, the game prints "you loose" and starts
over.
How does that sound?
On 1/23/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It doesn't work... I can
> It doesn't work... I can't quite figure it out. Am I missing a part?
> It says my syntax is correct...
syntax errors and logic errors are quite different beasts.
just because your syntax is correct doesn't mean your program does what
you want it to,
just that it will do what you asked it to.
I
quot;False" without the
quotes. It didn't work. I tried using moving is True instead of moving == 1
and it still didn't work. I tried moving the statement moving = 0 into my
main(), and it didn't work. Argh. I think I'm missing something really
simple, but I can't pl
ing =
0, the next part of the code I'm going to write (the basic shoot-em-up
part) the character doesn't move.
You guys are so helpful! Thanks!
On 1/22/07, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Christie wrote:
> Sorry for spamming your email inboxes so much guys
Sorry for spamming your email inboxes so much guys... I'm bad at this
whole email list thing... I'm better with forums, because I can edit
messages I post and stuff. Eh... Sorry.
Anyway, now I want the Textsprite class to not accept input while the
K_TAB button is pressed.
What would I have to c
at
least, that's a very basic and not-detailed roadmap for myself. I made
a much better one on my computer...
On 1/19/07, Charles Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No. I guess I should, huh? Well, whatever. In any case, I've almost
got this thing working. But I forgot to add a
y next class, though, so I'll
troubleshoot this later...
On 1/17/07, Brandon N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Great progress!
One question, are you backing up your code in between "breaking" it?
On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Charles Christie wrote:
> Good news everyone! I fou
Good news everyone! I found out why I could never get anywhere:
I was too afraid of breaking stuff so I didn't try to mess with
anything. However, if you don't break it, how can you fix it? So, I
looked over that pygame thing again and decided to just start doing
things that came to mind. It took
On 1/6/07, Kris Schnee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think that you would benefit from buying and reading
> _Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner_ by
> Dawson.
I've had some success working through "Dive Into Python," a free
textbook available online at http://www.diveintopython.org/ .
On 1/4/07, Brandon N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would be more concerned with ease of programming
than efficiency, as this is a pretty straightforward and non-
demanding application.
Are shoot-em-up games demanding? because I'm going to (much later)
add a shoot-em-up portion... that's not rea
I understood the python parts (except for class and def stuff, but I
never understood that in any programming language), but it was
isolating the part of the code that I wanted that confused me. I
thought I had it (and I was right) but I second-guessed and looked
around the rest of the code to fin
Hey, I am making a typing game in Python using pygame. I have finally hit a
roadblock, and I think I'm toast. I started this game as my senior project,
and I need to have something to at least demonstrate by June.
I think I screwed myself on this one. I thought I knew a reasonable amount of
progr
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