Comments on: Writing a game in Python with Pygame. Part I

By: eliben

eliben — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:20:42 +0000

Arthur, yes you can translate it into Chinese, no problems.

By: Arthur1989

Arthur1989 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:57:55 +0000

Hello,I am a Chinese student from Sun Yat-Sen University,I have gone through this series of tutorials carefully,and it helps me a lot,thanks for your efforts!I am now wondering whether I can translate this series into Chinese and post it on my blog.I promise it will never be used for commercial activity.Looking forward to your reply.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:14:49 +0000

Hi eliben, I’m a fan of Python and considering writing a python CMS in the next one year. Your code is brilliant and I like your coding style.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:51:28 +0000

Hello, you’re so expert in Python. Would you write a blog system in Python. I have applied a appengine account at http://appengine.google.com/ and want to build a blog here. But there is no blog system can run on it. It only supports Pathon.

By: eliben

eliben — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:27:26 +0000

WZ, thanks for the feedback, I’m glad you’re enjoying the articles. Regarding your questions:

For (5)(2). The creep has an internal counter and it gets update ‘ticks’ from calls to _change_direction. It can at random decide to “stop”. For that you can modify the internal self.speed variable to 0 for a second. When a second passes (a counter accumulates…) you can resume the speed to its past value.

For (7) the change has to be done in function blitme(). Read the “Blitme!” section of the article once again, especially the explanation of centering.

By: WZ

WZ — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:17:45 +0000

One more question also, if you don’t mind: For number (7), I commented out these:

draw_pos = self.image.get_rect().move(self.pos.x, self.pos.y)
self.screen.blit(self.image, draw_pos)

… and I replaced them with:

self.screen.blit(self.image, (self.pos.x, self.pos.y))

I assume this is correct? However, I do not see any difference in the rotation. (Or at least, I do not know what I should be seeing.)

By: WZ

WZ — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:11:31 +0000

Eli,

I’m a beginner to Pygame, and I’d like to thank you immensely for your series of tutorials. I’m going through them all slowly, trying out all the exercises you’ve provided.

If it’s not too much, I have a question: what is a good way of doing Exercise (5) (2). I’ve tried several methods (for loops, temporary variables, etc), but they don’t seem to work, and I’m currently a bit lost.

Thank you for your time.

By: dissertation

dissertation — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:14:16 +0000

that’s actually a little to much “else” here. Pretend your creep would bounce at coordinates 0,0. You check to see if the x ordinate is lower than possible which would be true in our case.

By: Marc Russell

Marc Russell — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:05:26 +0000

Ive been meaning to look at PyGame for a while and this will be a great starting point for me as you have set out some clear tutorials here, so firstly thanks for that.

Secondly to the reason I wanted to comment is that I have a couple of free graphics and font libraries of sprites and bitmap fonts that I’ve created royalty free. They may come in handy to you and your visitors and can be found on my site here

http://www.spicypixel.net/2008/01/16/fontpack-royalty-free-bitmap-fonts/ and http://www.spicypixel.net/2008/01/10/gfxlib-fuzed-a-free-developer-graphic-library/

If you’d like to collaborate on some free python games please get in touch, you have my email (free stuff of course).

Marc.

By: Goal Setting College

Goal Setting College — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:47:27 +0000

Eli, this is an awesome series of tutorials! Thanks for your efforts! Actually, a friend of mine is working on some pygame programming and I’m just helping him out with some research. I’ve already forward a link to your series to him!