Pygame

The Google Summer Of Code is where students are mentored to do an open source project over the summer. The other nice part of it is they give the students $5000 to do the projects. * April 5th deadline to get your proposals in. * We are ... [More] collecting details about ideas for projects, notes on how to apply, and a list of mentors, plus anything else about the GSOC on the gsoc2012ideas wiki page. So drop by the irc channel, or the mailing list if you want help with your proposal, or just want to find out more about it. There's plenty of information in the gsoc2012ideas wiki page too. Many thanks to Arc Riley, and the Python Software Foundation for taking the pygame project in under their umbrella. Also, big thanks to Mike Fletcher, Katie Cunningham, Rene Dudfield, and Robert Deaton for volunteering to be mentors. [Less]

The Google Summer Of Code is where students are mentored to do an open source project over the summer. The other nice part of it is they give the students $5000 to do the projects. * April 6th deadline to get your proposals in. * We are ... [More] collecting details about ideas for projects, notes on how to apply, and a list of mentors, plus anything else about the GSOC on the gsoc2012ideas wiki page. So drop by the irc channel, or the mailing list if you want help with your proposal, or just want to find out more about it. There's plenty of information in the gsoc2012ideas wiki page too. Many thanks to Arc Riley, and the Python Software Foundation for taking the pygame project in under their umbrella. Also, big thanks to Mike Fletcher, Katie Cunningham, Rene Dudfield, and Robert Deaton for volunteering to be mentors. [Less]

A new pygame book has been released by Al Sweigart, author of the book Invent your own computer games with Python. [“Making Games with Python & Pygame” covers the Pygame library with the source code for 11 games. “Making Games” was written as ... [More] a sequel for the same age range as “Invent with Python” Once you have an understanding of the basics of Python programming, you can now expand your abilities using the Pygame library to make games with graphics, animation, and sound.] [Less]

Here is what the Electronic Frontier Foundation has to say about it.

Today we are very excited to announce the launch of PyGameZine! PyGameZine issue 0 is chock full of articles about pygame, and interviews with people using pygame. It was inspired by the magazines that people used to type code out ... [More] of into their comodore 64s, or z80 spectrums plugged into their TVs. It also draws inspiration from demo discs, and the whole zine movement. The authors are pygame contributors and developers. We would like to try and fund some pygame open source/FOSS development, and pay for things like server hosting fees. So if you like, you can choose how much you would like to support pygame. Please direct media inquiries to [email protected]. We also need help publicizing PyGameZine, so we'd appreciate help with that by doing things like tweeting about it, or posting about it on blogs/forums/mailing lists. Thanks! [Less]

The PyWeek and Ludumdare game development competitions are finished. The Ludumdare competition had a massive 599 finished entries this time.  The voting has finished now, so go check out the winners. PyWeek had 110 finished entries, and voting ... [More] has just began.  So it is time to play the entries and vote on them (if you submitted a game yourself). Congratulations to anyone who participated in either of the game jams. [Less]

There is going to be a virtual sprint, combined with a real life pygame sprint in the uk. What that means, is a weekend of hacking on pygame. More details here if you want to join in.

We've entered the tenties, and moved over to one of pythons favourite version control systems mercurial. This is hosted by the kind folks over at bitbucket. Big thanks to seul.org who have previously hosted our subversion and even cvs version ... [More] control accounts. Here is the pygame bitbucket page: https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame. This should make it easier to administer, and also for external developers to collaborate more. So if you've been thinking about hacking on pygame - now is your chance! We've also migrated our bug tracking from bugzilla to bitbucket issues. Thanks to James Paige, who has been running our bugzilla over the years. We have converted all of the bugs into issues - and given them a little bit of attention whilst we were at it too. The new url for pygame issues is here: https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/issues To see more information about the migration please see the mailing list or see this migration issue. [Less]

The 13th Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) is coming. It'll run from Sunday the 11th of September to Sunday the 19th of September. The PyWeek challenge: Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or ... [More] in a team, Is intended to be challenging and fun, Will hopefully increase the public body of game tools, code and expertise, Will let a lot of people actually finish a game, and May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!) [Less]

http://pyconuk.org/ is a small community run conference in Conventry a couple of hours from London. There are 200 tickets this year. pyconuk runs from the 24th to the 25th of September 2011. "This year's theme is 'Python in depth'". ... [More] "The UK's official Python conference returns. It is aimed at everyone in the Python community, of all skill levels, from beginners to core developers." [Less]