[OLPC-Games] What are the plans for pygame

[Kent Quirk]

stas zytkiewicz wrote:
> Hi, could somebody tell me what the plans for pygame are?
> I was under the impression that SDL would be adapted to work
> inside a GTK environment.
> However recent discussions seems to indicate that there's a possibility
> that pygame will use a GTK canvas instead of a SDL surface.
>
> Whatever is decided is fine by me but it would be nice to know
> which direction is taken before I continue to port pygame based
> programs.
>
> Thanks,
> Stas Zytkiewicz
>
>   
The plans for pygame are to construct a system that will allow a generic 
pygame application to "play nice" in a Sugar environment. You shouldn't 
have to handle GTK events or canvases unless you are trying to do 
something unusual.

The details of that implementation are still being worked out. There is 
debate about how it should be done, but the debate is low-key because 
the students who will be working on it are not yet available full time.

My recommendation is that you just proceed to develop pygame apps that 
are agnostic about how surfaces are constructed. If they run acceptably 
on a range of Mac/PC/Linux machines you'll probably do OK. We do intend 
to be releasing lots of details about how to create games for the OLPC, 
but the target date to have first pass of that information is the Game 
Jam, which starts June 8.

    Kent

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