wesley chun wrote: >> I am trying to learn a programming language good for programming entire >> games (core functions too) > > check out the PyGame engine: > http://pygame.org > > download the games written on top of PyGame that appear to match the > functionality you're looking for. if you learn Python at the same > time, tweaking those games and changing their functionality will help > you learn it even faster.
You should also look at the PyGame Challenge web site: http://www.pyweek.org/ I'm not a game writer either but I have a few thoughts...my impression is that Python and PyGame are a good foundation for hobbyist games. The PyGame and PyWeek games are good examples. I doubt that you could write a commercial quality game like Final Fantasy using just these tools though. Commercial games have highly optimized game engines. Some of them use Python as scripting engines for high-level game play; I doubt that any commercial games use Python for their core game engine. On the other hand, you are a long way from being able to write Final Fantasy. You need to start small and develop your skills. Python and PyGame should be well suited for this. You might want to read this: http://tinyurl.com/hc6xc which says in part, "Starcraft, Everquest and Quake were all made by teams of professionals who had budgets usually million dollar plus. More importantly though, all of these games were made by people with a lot of experience at making games. They did not just decide to make games and turned out mega-hit games, they started out small and worked their way up. This is the point that anyone who is interested in getting into game development needs to understand and repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes such a part of your mindset that you couldn’t possibly understand life without this self evident, universal truth." and here are more links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_programming http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html I found these all by Googling "game programming language"; there are many more interesting links there. Good luck, Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
