Yeah, I saw that and poked around a bit and it's great. I should mess around some with it. I have been thinking that since I want to eventually port my game to iphone, I'll have to learn obj-c, so why not java first... how hard can it be? haha.
I actually found a great android game tutorial just now... it's almost pygame ish, even uses words like Rect and Surface. go figure! http://mobile.dzone.com/articles/beginning-android-game On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Stuart Axon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, I'm sure being on this mailinglist you've seen this: > http://pygame.renpy.org/ > > Apart from that there seem to be a lot of potential ways of using python or > python like languages but nothing that is nicely packaged up and easy > > (For instance a quick google finds this for cython > http://gitorious.org/nava#more > ). > > I'm obviously aware of the android scripting environment, but that doesn't > seem like a good solution for distributing apps. > > On 2 November 2011 14:45, Sean Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm getting into the wonderful world of Android which means Java. Dear >> lord I remember now why I hate this language. I love the pythonic >> philosophy that there should be an obvious way to get things done. It >> means I get to experiment and more often than not, my first experiment >> actually works! >> >> It seems like just as Python is great at taking out syntax and >> overhead to let you get to actually working on your ideas, to the same >> or greater extent, Java gets in the way. I mean in the Python world I >> don't really need an IDE, maybe a souped up text editor is all. But >> now I see why IDEs are so much more helpful in the java world... cause >> there is so much more overhead to manage. >> >> That being said, being a mostly Python programmer up to this point, >> I'm sure C++ and C# are just as horrible. So it's not specific to >> Java. >> >> Anyhow, back to work. But please somebody tell me the joy of game >> programming will come back cause right now I'm just slogging through >> muck. >> >> >> *sniff* thanks for letting me cry... >> >> >> -- >> A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, >> if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. >> - Abraham Maslow > > -- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. - Abraham Maslow
