Re: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-23 Thread Sam Bull
On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 22:57 +, Tom Rothamel wrote: That being said, all the Ren'Py packager does is to copy various files into zip or tar.bz2 files with appropriate permissions info, so if someone wants to make a standalone tool or distribution, they can. What's the advantage of

Re: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-23 Thread tom arnall
got it. so pygame gives you test-harness tools? On 7/22/15, Tom Rothamel t...@rothamel.us wrote: The theory is that pygame_sdl2 will be able to run the pygame test suite at some point. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:30 PM tom arnall kloro2...@gmail.com wrote: And pygame_sdl2 is far from ready -

RE: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-22 Thread Luke Paireepinart
...@rothamel.us Sent: ‎7/‎22/‎2015 9:59 AM To: pygame-users@seul.org pygame-users@seul.org Subject: Re: [pygame] pygame to android On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:11 AM tom arnall kloro2...@gmail.com wrote: what is the relationship between RenPy and Pygame? Ren'Py is a game engine that people use to make specific

Re: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-22 Thread tom arnall
Tom, what is the relationship between RenPy and Pygame? regards, tom .. Faced with the possibility of its extinction, every species finds within itself powers unimaginable in the days of its complacency. On 7/21/15, Tom Rothamel t...@rothamel.us wrote: Pygame_sdl2, as packaged with RAPT

Re: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-22 Thread tom arnall
Tom, thanks very much for the information. I'm sure i'll be back with more questions about it soon ;o) regards, Tom .. Faced with the possibility of its extinction, every species finds within itself powers unimaginable in the days of its complacency. On 7/22/15, Tom Rothamel

Re: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-22 Thread tom arnall
And pygame_sdl2 is far from ready - there's no test suite, for example. what happened to write tests first! ? On 7/22/15, Tom Rothamel t...@rothamel.us wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:37 PM Luke Paireepinart rabidpoob...@gmail.com wrote: Tom, Is sdl2 Pygame the way forward for Pygame?

Re: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-22 Thread Tom Rothamel
The theory is that pygame_sdl2 will be able to run the pygame test suite at some point. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:30 PM tom arnall kloro2...@gmail.com wrote: And pygame_sdl2 is far from ready - there's no test suite, for example. what happened to write tests first! ? On 7/22/15, Tom

Re: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-22 Thread Tom Rothamel
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:11 AM tom arnall kloro2...@gmail.com wrote: what is the relationship between RenPy and Pygame? Ren'Py is a game engine that people use to make specific types of generally narrative-heavy games. Visual Novels, Life Simulations, and simple RPGs are all within what

Re: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-21 Thread Tom Rothamel
Um... basically, the docs are out of date, and since pgs4a was a technological dead-end from the start (it used a private fork of SDL1), efforts to update its documentation are kind of wasted. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:00 AM tom arnall kloro2...@gmail.com wrote: Tom thanks very much! btw

Re: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-21 Thread Tom Rothamel
Pygame_sdl2, as packaged with RAPT is probably the best solution - depending on if it supports the subset of pygame that you're using. I threw together a git repository that has a sample game that can be packaged. You can check it out at: https://github.com/renpytom/rapt-pygame-example The

Re: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-21 Thread tom arnall
Tom thanks very much! btw at: http://pygame.renpy.org/android-packaging.html there are instructions for putting a pygame application into an apk, but there is no mention of what must be done to the pygame application code to make it android-ready. For exampe, there is no mention of 'import

Re: [pygame] pygame to android

2015-07-21 Thread Max Bedacht
Try kivy On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:14 PM tom arnall kloro2...@gmail.com wrote: are there any people on this list who are big into porting pygame apps to android?

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android question: videos possible?

2012-11-03 Thread René Dudfield
Ask on the forum for pygs4a... Or submit an issue there :) On Oct 29, 2012 8:28 PM, Alec Bennett wrybr...@gmail.com wrote: I need to do an Android project that simply plays one of five videos, and I was considering using Pygame for it. I was wondering if this would be possible? Can I play

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android question: videos possible?

2012-11-01 Thread Alec Bennett
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Noel Garwick noel.garw...@gmail.comwrote: As far as I know, video support is still missing for Pygame subset for Android. Can anyone think of a way to work around this issue? Maybe a way to play video as an external process? Or would it be hard to add video

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android question: videos possible?

2012-11-01 Thread Noel Garwick
I think that devs are waiting for the next version of SDL before they implement it. You could always do it manually; blit a series of images to a surface, while playing the soundtrack using pygame's mixer module. I did this (using ffmpeg to extract still frames / audio track, along with a script

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android question: videos possible?

2012-10-29 Thread Noel Garwick
As far as I know, video support is still missing for Pygame subset for Android. On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Alec Bennett wrybr...@gmail.com wrote: I need to do an Android project that simply plays one of five videos, and I was considering using Pygame for it. I was wondering if this

Re: [pygame] pygame on android first impressions

2011-10-20 Thread James Paige
I have been playing with the pygame subset for android on a Motorola Xoom tablet. it is faster than most phones, but I did notice that the slowest stuff seemed to be graphics. Have you tested a pygame program with a very low screen resolution like 320x240? I would be curious how it runs on

Re: [pygame] pygame on android first impressions

2011-10-20 Thread Sean Wolfe
I'm working on a Phantasy Star - type game in pygame, and I think I'll take a simple battle screen and try and port it to P4A. I'll set the graphics up for the lower resoltion and give it a shot. It will be a good learning project! Give me a little bit to get it all done and I'll message the

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android

2010-12-21 Thread pie
So, How would I put up my free game on the market?

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android

2010-12-20 Thread pie
Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android I am porting over a game. Will I be able to put it on the Android market? Thanks for all that you have done. I will send you feedback soon!

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android

2010-12-20 Thread Tom Rothamel
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:12 PM, p...@eggplantanimation.com wrote: Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android I am porting over a game. Will I be able to put it on the Android market? Thanks for all that you have done. I will send you feedback soon! Yes. Right now, I'm still trying to get the packaging

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android

2010-12-07 Thread René Dudfield
Hi, on the upcomming android you can write apps with zero java :) Of course that is on 0.01% of peoples devices so far... but still nice for later. If you're still looking at SDL-on-Android, you might want to check out the Gingerbread SDK/NDK, which now provides a mechanism for native apps that

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android

2010-12-07 Thread stas zytkiewicz
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Tom Rothamel t...@rothamel.us wrote: Again, this hasn't been tested on may devices - so feedback is encouraged. I'll try to get the full source code up shortly. I've tried it on the android emulator, 2.1-update1 API level 7 but it crashes hard:

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android

2010-12-06 Thread Stuart Axon
On 6 December 2010 04:39, Tom Rothamel t...@rothamel.us wrote: Hi. I'm the creator of the Ren'Py visual novel engine (http://www.renpy.org), a tool for digital storytelling. Ren'Py has been using Pygame since at least 2004. For the past month or so, I've been porting Ren'Py to the Android

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android

2010-12-06 Thread stas zytkiewicz
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Stuart Axon stu.axon+pyg...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 December 2010 04:39, Tom Rothamel t...@rothamel.us wrote: For the past month or so, I've been porting Ren'Py to the Android platform. A few days ago, I had the first success. This required porting Python and

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android

2010-12-06 Thread René Dudfield
Amazing! This is really cool. It would be good to merge your changes in to pygame subversion. Do you already have subversion access? cheers, On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Tom Rothamel t...@rothamel.us wrote: Hi. I'm the creator of the Ren'Py visual novel engine (http://www.renpy.org), a

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android

2010-12-06 Thread Tom Rothamel
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Stuart Axon stu.axon+pyg...@gmail.comstu.axon%2bpyg...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, super cool - I guess it has python inside it? Is it now possible to make android apps with python like this ? Yes. The basic strategy is to use JNI to communicate between Python and

Re: [pygame] Pygame for Android

2010-12-06 Thread Lenard Lindstrom
Hi Tom, On 06/12/10 09:35 AM, Tom Rothamel wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:16 AM, stas zytkiewicz stas.zytkiew...@gmail.com mailto:stas.zytkiew...@gmail.com wrote: Are you planning to eventually port the pygame.mixer ? I'm not sure what the strategy for this would be. At the very