This is great! There should be more people like you. I sincerely hope that the maintainers will take the initiative and do the needful. Looking forward to a new version of Pygame!
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Leif Theden <leif.the...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the replay. Sorry we weren't able to chat before the game jam, > but I'm in #pygame pretty often, under the nickname bitcraft. > > There are a few projects already using pytmx/pyscroll, and I'll include a > few that I know about. > > https://github.com/justinmeister/PyTMX-Examples > > http://www.reddit.com/r/pygame/comments/27yzex/getting_started_with_pytmx_making_collideable/ > https://github.com/bitcraft/pyscroll/tree/master/tutorial/code > > http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=7968 > https://github.com/justinmeister/The-Stolen-Crown-RPG > https://github.com/wkmanire/Platakart > https://github.com/wkmanire/PyMunkTMX > https://github.com/bitcraft/pyweek18 > https://github.com/fish-face/door-restorer > https://github.com/jamesalbert/FinalTrigger > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK8Mf-pE1gU > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74q1t8UPAes > > The quadtree functions might be useful as a part of the sprite module. It > offers reasonably quick collision checking for rects and rect like objects. > > > I can contact the people who have used pytmx/pyscroll in the past and see > if the api is adequate. > > I realize that pygame hasn't had a release in a while. If the maintainers > of pygame would be willing to include these libraries, that alone should be > enough to publish another official release. If I could get positive > feedback and the backing of the maintainers, then I don't really mind > putting in the extra effort for documentation and testing. > > Pygame is being embraced by the rasberrypi community, and I think it would > reflect well on pygame if that community had more options for making games > on that platform. > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:59 AM, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Very cool. This has been something many people have asked for before :) >> >> >> - Do you know of any other games or examples that are using them? >> We'll need at least one example to include with pygame, and it would be >> nice if other people can try out the API and give feedback. >> - I think 2.7+ is fine at this point, but it's usually easy to port >> to 2.4/2.6+. >> - We'll need to figure out where internal parts like Quadtree go. Do >> we keep them private or make them publicly available? >> - For testing, it would be good if at least every method is tested. >> 100% coverage tested is not necessary but nice. >> - There needs to be documentation for every public method. >> - The other documentation that would be good is a tutorial in how to >> use it. >> >> Maybe we could organise a mini sprint to discuss things? Otherwise we can >> go over each part on the mailing list. >> >> I'll be at this game jam thing on Saturday doing pygame things, and >> perhaps we can meet then on irc to discuss? If you want to do this, then I >> could work on a little game using your libraries to get a feel for them >> then too. >> >> http://www.berlinminijam.de/2014/09/next-game-jam-announcement-september.html >> >> It's probably a good idea to discuss the API, and get feedback with a few >> people on how it could be made more usable before we go ahead and write >> lots of documentation/tests/etc for it. >> >> Of course, pygame hasn't done a release for a while. So you may want to >> take that into consideration before embarking on all this work. >> >> >> >> cu. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Leif Theden <leif.the...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Any specific reason for targeting python 2.4?... It's ten years old. >>> Currently, it is tested again 2.7 and 3.3, but I can't think of any reasons >>> why 2.6 wouldn't work. As for 2.4, there might be some issues with the >>> generator syntax. Its been a long time since I've used 2.4. >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Jason Marshall <j...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>>> How difficult would it be to make the code compatible with Python 2.4+? >>>> >>>> Jason >>>> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> * From: * Jason Marshall <j...@yahoo.com>; >>>> * To: * pygame-users@seul.org <pygame-users@seul.org>; >>>> * Subject: * Re: [pygame] TMX support in pygame >>>> * Sent: * Thu, Sep 18, 2014 11:48:26 AM >>>> >>>> I haven't used your tools myself, but if they really work well and >>>> have a tutorial and good documentation, then I'm in favor of adding them. >>>> Batteries included! >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Jason >>>> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> *From:* Leif Theden <leif.the...@gmail.com> >>>> *To:* pygame-users@seul.org >>>> *Sent:* Monday, September 15, 2014 11:51 AM >>>> *Subject:* [pygame] TMX support in pygame >>>> >>>> Hello everyone! >>>> >>>> I'm a long time user of pygame and active member of #pygame under the >>>> handle bitcraft. I help many people who stumble into the channel to build >>>> their first game in pygame. I've also released and maintain a couple small >>>> libraries PyTMX and Pyscroll to help new users develop using the Tiled Map >>>> Editor. >>>> >>>> https://github.com/bitcraft/PyTMX >>>> https://github.com/bitcraft/pyscroll >>>> >>>> >>>> The Tiled Map Editor is widely known in the indie game community and >>>> many popular game development ecosystems include out-of-the-box support for >>>> it, including pyglet, cocos2d-x, allegro5, libgdx, and many others. >>>> >>>> I am confident that PyGame will benefit from a TMX loader that it is >>>> integrated into the core and documented on pygame.org. >>>> >>>> As maintainer of PyTMX and pyscroll, I would like to nominate these >>>> projects to be integrated into the pygame core. They both support python >>>> 2.7 and 3.3+ and I have tried to make them feel like native pygame >>>> libraries; and they even work well with the spite/group concept. The only >>>> library that it depends on outside of the python standard lib is the six >>>> module. >>>> >>>> There are of other loaders available as well, and I will list them as >>>> well for the consideration of the pygame core developers. My apologies if >>>> I have overlooked another tiled TMX map format project. >>>> >>>> http://www.pygame.org/project/1158/ >>>> http://pytmxlib.readthedocs.org/en/v0.1.0/ >>>> >>>> https://bitbucket.org/r1chardj0n3s/pygame-tutorial/src/a383dd24790d/tmx.py >>>> https://github.com/renfredxh/tmx >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thank you everyone and I look forward to hearing your comments. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> > -- Diliup Gabadamudalige http://www.diliupg.com http://soft.diliupg.com/ ********************************************************************************************** This e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. 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