Re: [pygame] preview of new pygame website... HiFi part

2014-04-08 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
FWIW, I really like the design. I like the feel of everything being there and navigating around it. I much prefer that to paginated websites, which I feel I can get lost in. For me, more is definitely more. However, I agree that so much information could be daunting to casual browsers and I think

Re: [pygame] newbie

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 30 March 2010 02:23, Russell Cumins rcum...@googlemail.com wrote: Or like me you can run Ubuntu(Or your distro of choice) inside a VM like Virtual Box. Saves monkeying around looking for Win versions of things like grep, wget etc etc. cygwin + puttycyg FTW! Tom

Re: [pygame] newbie

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 29 March 2010 21:40, James Paige b...@hamsterrepublic.com wrote: grep is a unix command for searching files. All us cool Linux kids know it :) and love it... But the Windows equivalent would just be to search in the pygame examples folder for any files that contain the word SLK_ and

Re: [pygame] Python 2.5.4 or 2.6

2010-03-25 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 25 March 2010 18:48, sne...@msn.com wrote: I do like 3.1 for learning, if something goes wrong in 2.5.4 it cuts out and all your work is lost, 3.1, if something doesn't add up you can close the program but it doesn't close your .py files so you can save then go back and check what's wrong.

Re: [pygame] Merry Christmas - Christmas Avenger flew under the radar - give it a chance

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 14 February 2010 05:28, Nathan Franck gorks...@gmail.com wrote: I'm the maker of the game, and I think it deserves a bit of merit. It's a gift I gave last Christmas, and it just got swept under the rug. Give it a chance!

Re: [pygame] Is PyGame dying?

2010-01-27 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
2010/1/27 Olof Bjarnason olof.bjarna...@gmail.com: 2010/1/27 Jon j...@webprophets.net.au: Personally I think PyGame is a wonderful API for building any sort of complex animation that is secondary to pure 3D. For example, building beautiful animated menus, or sub-games, or simply handling

Re: [pygame] Make a sprite fall with realistic gravity?

2009-12-03 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
2009/12/3 Bill Coderre b...@mac.com Now we have laptops and GUIs, and Alan and conspirators have been inventing new programming systems with Squeak (a newer version of Smalltalk) as their assembly language core. Etoys is one of them, and if you haven't tried it, you should.[1] [1]

[pygame] pySpy 1.1

2009-12-02 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi, I've released an alpha version of pySpy on launchpad ( http://launchpad.net/pyspy). It has a whole new type of gameplay in it. I would appreciate any feedback anyone has. Thanks, Tom

[pygame] pySpy

2009-11-12 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi everyone, I've finally released a game that I've been working on called pySpy. It's an 'I Spy' game based on a game I liked to play on pub quiz machines in the UK. I'd appreciate any feedback (especially code review, this is my first complete pygame game) and if anyone wants to join in

[pygame] BUG: Windows - Pygame 1.9.1 with Python 2.6.4 doesn't install correctly

2009-11-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
I'm using the pygame-1.9.1.win32-py2.6.msi installer with a fresh install of Python2.6. Pygame is not installed correctly, and creates C:\Lib and C:\Include directories. I can manually move these into my Python26 folder to fix this. I don't have an APPDATA environment variable set, perhaps

Re: [pygame] BUG: Windows - Pygame 1.9.1 with Python 2.6.4 doesn't install correctly

2009-11-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
René Dudfield wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using the pygame-1.9.1.win32-py2.6.msi installer with a fresh install of Python2.6. Pygame is not installed correctly, and creates C:\Lib and C:\Include directories. I can manually move

Re: [pygame] BUG: Windows - Pygame 1.9.1 with Python 2.6.4 doesn't install correctly

2009-11-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Thomas Ibbotson wrote: René Dudfield wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using the pygame-1.9.1.win32-py2.6.msi installer with a fresh install of Python2.6. Pygame is not installed correctly, and creates C:\Lib and C:\Include

Re: [pygame] BUG: Windows - Pygame 1.9.1 with Python 2.6.4 doesn't install correctly

2009-11-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
René Dudfield wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote: Thomas Ibbotson wrote: René Dudfield wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using the pygame-1.9.1.win32-py2.6

Re: [pygame] BUG: Windows - Pygame 1.9.1 with Python 2.6.4 doesn't install correctly

2009-11-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
René Dudfield wrote: one more question... are you on 32bit windows? Yes it is 32-bit windows. I guess another question would be, if it works for other packages? eg, does the numpy msi work for you ok? There only appears to be an amd64 numpy msi. I've had a look for other python packages