Pygame

This is a fun video controlling pygame with midi.

This is a fun video controlling pygame with midi. update: here is a video of a custom kick drum and synth using pygame as audio and midi library.

Drumroll... and the winners are:   Individual: Topologiquill  Team: After the Fall Congratulations to everyone who entered! The theme for this pyweek was "Feather"

At the launch of the N900 PUSH project at the onedotzero festival in London, Tinker.it! and Hyper had an exhibition using the a new linux(Maemo) based phone from nokia. Their exhibition used pygame for some parts. You can read more details on the nokia blog.

'PyCon UK 2009 will be held on Saturday 5th September at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham. Pycon UK 2009 is an UnConference. This means that the delegates arrange the schedule on the day. There's no submission process, and no schedule. You turn up with ... [More] whatever material you wish to present, you choose which talks are given and which workshops are held on the day.' It's only £10 if you pre-book. http://pyconuk.org/booking.html. If you're planning on going, please pre-book now, so the organisers have a better idea of numbers. More information can be found about the unconference at the website: http://www.pyconuk.org/. It would be a nice cheap venue for those around the uk, and europe to meet up and talk about python game/multimedia stuff. [Less]

A quick bugfix release has been made to correct a problem with a missing readme.html file in the source release, and setuptools based installs dying when the readme.html file wasn't there.

What's new (heaps of things since 1.8.1): http://www.pygame.org/whatsnew.shtml Summary of changes:   - many, many fixes and improvements. The largest amount of changes has gone into this release than any other pygame release.   - bug ... [More] fixes for backwards compatibility issues introduced in pygame 1.8.x series. old games like solarwolf and libraries like PGU work again.   - experimental camera webcam module (still in development).   - experimental midi module based on portmidi and pyportmidi (99% complete).   - experimental gfxdraw module based on SDL_gfx (including AA circles, textured polygons and other goodness).   - python3, and python3.1 support mostly completed. Some modules still remain to be completed - but mostly it's working.   - nokia mobile phone s60 support.   - improved OSX support (dropped pyobjc dependency, improved installer, sysfont now works on OSX).   - pygame.examples + pygame.tests included with pygame. This makes testing easier, and also makes learning pygame more fun and easy.   - cleanup of examples, and addition of new examples.   - new tools to aid in development of pygame itself, better compilation documentation.   - py2app, and py2exe support improved. Files are up on the download page. [Less]

The 15th Ludumdare 48hour-from-scratch-solo game development competition is coming to the webs near you. Read the full announcement here:http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2009/07/23/ludum-dare-15-august-28th-30th-weekend/.

A new book was published recently which teaches people to program using python and pygame. 'It's written in language a 12-year-old can follow, but anyone who wants to learn how to program a computer can use it. Even adults.' If you want to ... [More] find out more... Watch the interview with Warren Sande and Carter Sande - the father and son team who wrote the book. You can read a review by Guido van Rossum, or visit the Hello world website or blog. Congratulations to Warren Sande and Carter Sande for completing their book, and getting it published! [Less]

The date for the ninth PyWeek challenge has been set: Sunday 30th August to Sunday 6th September (00:00UTC to 00:00UTC) The PyWeek challenge invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team. ... [More] Entries must be developed in Python, during the challenge, and must incorporate some theme chosen at the start of the challenge. REGISTRATION IS NOT YET OPEN -- Registration will open one month before the start date. See the competition timetable and rules: http://www.pyweek.org/9/ [Less]