[OLPC-Games] Pygame game templates and cookbook

Clare Richardson clare at girlstart.org
Thu Dec 20 20:50:43 EST 2007


Good catch!  That demo program was written back in August and was used this fall semester as a teaching tool, so unfortunately we're pretty much done using it.  However, we definitely need that eye on our code for the upcoming semester!  Most of the code isn't OLPC laptop-ready, since we're trying to keep the code as simple as possible for our novices.
 
I hadn't seen the Pygame best practices.  Could we standardize this and put it up somewhere on the wiki?  I know it'd be a great resource for those starting out.
 
-- Clare Richardson

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From: games-bounces at lists.laptop.org on behalf of Chris Hager
Sent: Wed 12/19/2007 6:22 AM
To: Games for the OLPC
Subject: Re: [OLPC-Games] Pygame game templates and cookbook



hello,

you noticed that your demo app is consuming a lot of cpu-load? like 40 -
80%. that shouldn't happen, please have a look at the pygame
best-practices thread
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-December/008263.html

also, in littermedia.py there is an error in line 44: instead of wav you
meant name, i think.

best regards,
- chris

olpc austria

Clare Richardson wrote:
> Girlstart has been hard at work on game templates to make developing games in Pygame easier for novice programmers.  These templates for individual types of games come with "cookbook recipes" for how to add features and functionality.  The templates and cookbook are in the final stages of tweaking, and our pilot program using them will begin in late January.
> You can read more and view the code repository at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_templates <http://pandora/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_templates>
> 
> I encourage anyone who has made games in Pygame to think about cookbook recipes that would be useful for younger, novice programmers, and send me your ideas!  It's easy to take snippets of code you've already written and write short instructions for how to insert them into another program.
> 
> -- Clare
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