Pygame

If you are one of those people who use facebook, then now you can join the pygame sports team! ps. don't join facebook, it's evil(but if you have, join the pygame sports team!) (ok, it's not really a sports team, but just a silly group for pygame people on facebook)

Hey there sports fans, Ludum Dare #13 is coming soon. December 5th-7th weekend. You know the drill. Ludum Dare is a regular community driven game development competition. The goal is, given a theme and 48 hours, to develop a game from ... [More] scratch. Ludum Dare aims to encourage game design experimentation, and provide a platform to develop and practice rapid game prototyping. You can start suggesting themes now, with voting to start by the end of the month(December 1st 2008). http://ludumdare.com/wiki/start www.ludumdare.com - the super awesome website, refresh hourly irc://irc.afternet.org/ludumdare #ludumdare - the compo IRC channel, waste your time here http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ - the compo blog, be sure to sign up here http://www.ludumdare.com/wiki/ - the compo wiki, submit themes & read rules here http://www.ludumdare.com/planet/ - the compo planet, read about our exciting lives here [Less]

The gsoc finished up a while ago. Here's some info on some of the pygame related projects. physics module Camera module testing improvements Here's some improvements for the SDL (which pygame uses). These have been put into the SDL 1.3 ... [More] release tree. These are the notes from Sam Lantinga of the SDL project: Force Feedback for SDL by Edgar Simo, mentored by Ryan C. Gordon - This was successfully implemented for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. See include/SDL_haptic.h for details on the API. Audio Ideas - Resampling and Pitch Shifting by Aaron Wishnick, mentored by Ryan C. Gordon - Resampling is fully implemented and pitch shifting is still in progress. Bring SDL to iPhone and iPod Touch by Holmes Futrell, mentored by Sam Lantinga - This was fully implemented, however due to Apple's NDA the snapshot only includes the OpenGL ES video driver. We are in discussion with Apple now. Port SDL 1.3 to the Nintendo DS, add touch input API by Darren Alton, mentored by Sam Lantinga - This was fully implemented, make -f Makefile.ds Refresh pointing device support by Szymon Wilczek, mentored by Ryan C. Gordon - Support for multiple mice and Wacom tablets was implemented for Linux and Windows. Wiki is available: http://wilku.ravenlord.ws/doku.php?id=start [Less]

Join other python people(programmers, not the english comedians) in making a game from scratch (unless you've released a library after a previous competition). You need to use only python(so there's no competition from those pesky C, C++, C# or ... [More] flash programmers). You can join as a team, or as a solo entrant. So if you've got a few gfx/sfx/writer arty friends you can ask them to join your team. You're allowed to use freely available graphics and sound if you have no gfx/sfx skills or friends. Or maybe you could have a team with 5 pure programmers. You can register, and vote for a theme now! The dates of this challenge are are 00:00 UTC 2008-09-07 to 00:00 UTC 2008-09-14. It's super fun and inspirational. Also you're guaranteed to finish... since you are automatically finished at the end of a week! Pyweek Timetable Friday 2008/08/08Registration open Sunday 2008/08/31Theme voting underway Sunday 2008/09/07Challenge start Sunday 2008/09/14Challenge end, judging begins Sunday 2008/09/28Judging closes, winners announced [Less]

Join other python people(programmers, not the english comedians) in making a game from scratch (unless you've released a library after a previous competition). You need to use only python(so there's no competition from those pesky C, C , C# or ... [More] flash programmers). You can join as a team, or as a solo entrant. So if you've got a few gfx/sfx/writer arty friends you can ask them to join your team. You're allowed to use freely available graphics and sound if you have no gfx/sfx skills or friends. Or maybe you could have a team with 5 pure programmers. You can register, and vote for a theme now! The dates of this challenge are are 00:00 UTC 2008-09-07 to 00:00 UTC 2008-09-14. It's super fun and inspirational. Also you're guaranteed to finish... since you are automatically finished at the end of a week! Pyweek Timetable Friday 2008/08/08Registration open Sunday 2008/08/31Theme voting underway Sunday 2008/09/07Challenge start Sunday 2008/09/14Challenge end, judging begins Sunday 2008/09/28Judging closes, winners announced [Less]

Stick a fork in it, it's baked... nice and toasty. Pygame 1.8.1 is now available for download. Many bug fixes and improvements, including: BLEND_RGBA_* blitters and blenders to go with the BLEND_RGB_* blend modes. documentation updates (mainly ... [More] for new sprite classes released in 1.8.0) sound fixes, and streaming some music from file like objects image saving fixes greatly expanded tests Pixelarray, and surfarray updates and fixes. Enhanced Color class, reimplemented in C for speed. New Windows and Mac binary installers. See the WHATSNEW for a full list of changes. [Less]

The Google Summer of Code(gsoc) has started, and students have officially begun their work this week. Already design, and code are starting to appear from them. Here are the pygame related projects, and their blogs: Zhang Fan, "minz", blog: ... [More] physics stuff Zhang Fan went through the earth quake in China, but luckily him and his family are ok. Zhang has been studying various physics libraries, algorithms and code. As well he has begun work in a separate branch. So hopefully his work will then be merged in at a later time after his project. You can view his branch here: http://www.seul.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/branches/physics/?rev=1259&root=PyGame Nicholas Dudfield, "akalias", blog: tests for pygame Nicholas's test work is going into the pygame trunk, and he has been working on some tools to help generate most of the test bodies. So this way we will be able to see the number of tests needed to implement. As well he began to write some tests for some parts of pygame that need more tests for the pygame 1.8.1 release(coming soon). Nirav Patel, "nrp", blog: computer vision stuff (through the OLPC project, not mentored through pygame) Nirav has been working in his local git repository since he doesn't always have internet access where he is. He's proposed some ideas for how his camera access API would work on the mailing list, and discussion has begun there. He plans to upload his work onto the internet when he has access for people to look at. SDL gsoc projects Also there are SDL related GSOC projects which will help pygame too (pygame uses SDL)... Edgar "bobbens" Simo: Bobbens is an undergrad in industrial engineering, and will be working on developing a force feedback API. Aaron Wishnick: Aaron is an undergrad in mathematics, and will be working on audio resampling and pitch shifting. Holmes Futrell: Holmes is an undergrad in computer science and mathematics, and will be porting SDL to the iPhone. Darren Alton: Darren is an undergrad in computer science, and will be porting SDL 1.3 to the Nintendo DS, using the hardware capabilities of the DS to showcase the new features in SDL 1.3. http://lifning.americankryptonite.net/blag/ Szymon "Wilku" Wilczek: Wilku is an undergrad in computer science, and wants to add support for pressure sensitive devices to the SDL API, specifically using the Wacom tablet as an example. http://wilku.ravenlord.ws/doku.php?id=start [Less]

The Google Summer of Code(gsoc) has started, and students have officially begun their work this week. Already design, and code are starting to appear from them. Here are the pygame related projects, and their blogs: Zhang Fan, "minz", blog: ... [More] physics stuff Zhang Fan went through the earth quake in China, but luckily him and his family are ok. Zhang has been studying various physics libraries, algorithms and code. As well he has begun work in a separate branch. So hopefully his work will then be merged in at a later time after his project. You can view his branch here: http://www.seul.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/branches/physics/?root=PyGame (updated to correct link 2008/06/16) Nicholas Dudfield, "akalias", blog: tests for pygame Nicholas's test work is going into the pygame trunk, and he has been working on some tools to help generate most of the test bodies. So this way we will be able to see the number of tests needed to implement. As well he began to write some tests for some parts of pygame that need more tests for the pygame 1.8.1 release(coming soon). Nirav Patel, "nrp", blog: computer vision stuff (through the OLPC project, not mentored through pygame) Nirav has been working in his local git repository since he doesn't always have internet access where he is. He's proposed some ideas for how his camera access API would work on the mailing list, and discussion has begun there. He plans to upload his work onto the internet when he has access for people to look at. SDL gsoc projects Also there are SDL related GSOC projects which will help pygame too (pygame uses SDL)... Edgar "bobbens" Simo: Bobbens is an undergrad in industrial engineering, and will be working on developing a force feedback API. Aaron Wishnick: Aaron is an undergrad in mathematics, and will be working on audio resampling and pitch shifting. Holmes Futrell: Holmes is an undergrad in computer science and mathematics, and will be porting SDL to the iPhone. Darren Alton: Darren is an undergrad in computer science, and will be porting SDL 1.3 to the Nintendo DS, using the hardware capabilities of the DS to showcase the new features in SDL 1.3. http://lifning.americankryptonite.net/blag/ Szymon "Wilku" Wilczek: Wilku is an undergrad in computer science, and wants to add support for pressure sensitive devices to the SDL API, specifically using the Wacom tablet as an example. http://wilku.ravenlord.ws/doku.php?id=start [Less]

The theme for the latest pyweek challenge was "Robot". The winners were: Individual: invention Team: Robot Underground Congratulations to everyone who entered!

Ludum Dare 11 is coming! Ludum Dare is a regular community driven game development competition. The goal is, given a theme and 48 hours, to develop a game from scratch. Ludum Dare aims to encourage game design experimentation, and provide a ... [More] platform to develop and practice rapid game prototyping. Website: http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/ Rules & Stuff: http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/wiki/start IRC: #ludumdare on irc.afternet.org April 11-18th - Registration and Theme Voting April 18 at 7pm PST and runs until the 20th at 7pm PST Hope to see you there! -Rene [Less]