pygame news http://www.pygame.org Sat, 25 May 2013 04:20:52 -0700 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.pygame.org/skins/main/poweredby.gif pygame news http://www.pygame.org pygame summer project updates 2012 http://www.pygame.org/news.html Here we have some updates on the summer projects which are going on.

Sagie wrote a tutorial on pygame.sprite.Dirty and pygame.sprite.LayeredDirty, as well as a blog update on his progress.
    http://dotfile.n0nick.net/quick-dirty-using-pygames-dirtysprite-layered
    http://dotfile.n0nick.net/gsoc-journal-weeks-1-2

Szymon wrote a blog post on the networking project:
    http://pygame-networking.blogspot.com/2012/06/gsoc-journal-introduction.html

Sam wrote a post on the "SCG" beta release of the GUI project:
    http://blog.sambull.org/sgc-0-1-4-beta-release

Sam has also written to the mailing list asking for feedback on his work.
    https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/pygame-mirror-on-google-groups/AQiDPF_rINo

Sagie has also been getting into some conversations on the mailing list, and in the irc channel about the sprites project.
    https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/pygame-mirror-on-google-groups/KhaV8V6o4Js

Sam, Szymon, and Rene started on a little game for pyweek to be used as an experimental sandbox for testing out gsoc project ideas.
    https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygamegsoc12]]> pygame.org Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:23:00 -0700 Pygame Google Summer of Code, 2012. http://www.pygame.org/news.html Thanks to the students, and mentors donating their time, along with the PSF, and Google, the following pygame related projects are ongoing over the summer.

"Pygame: GUI toolkit" by Sam Bull (sambull), mentored by Mike Fletcher(mcfletch) and with backup mentor Robert Deaton (masquerade). (Proposal | Blog)

"Pygame: Improved Sprite and Scene system" by Sagie Maoz (n0nick), co-mentored by Robert Deaton (masquerade) and Katie Cunningham (kcunning). (Proposal | Blog)

"Easy networking in PyGame" by Szymon Wróblewski (bluex), mentored by Rene Dudfield (illume) and with backup mentor Mike Fletcher (mcfletch). (Proposal | Blog)]]> pygame.org Fri, 25 May 2012 13:05:00 -0700 Pyweek (the python game development compo) starts Sunday 2012/05/06 http://www.pygame.org/news.html Details at the http://www.pyweek.org/14/ website.

Also congrats to tartley who has a newborn, so can't take part in pyweek this time.]]> pygame.org Wed, 02 May 2012 15:00:00 -0700 Ludumdare 48h game development competition on this weekend!! http://www.pygame.org/news.html http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ <~-,. it's all there. ♥♥♥♥♥

Pygame is offering 1 BILLION free licenses to LD48ers. Check out the pygame.org download page.]]> pygame.org Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:11:00 -0700 Pygame and the Google Summer Of Code 2012. http://www.pygame.org/news.html 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 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.]]> pygame.org Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:58:00 -0700 Congrats to Al Sweigart on his new book! "Making Games with Python & Pygame" http://www.pygame.org/news.html

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 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.]

]]> pygame.org Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:29:00 -0700 In support of the internet rebellion against SOPA pygame.org is going hot pink! http://www.pygame.org/news.html Here is what the Electronic Frontier Foundation has to say about it.]]> pygame.org Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:40:00 -0700 PyGameZine http://www.pygame.org/news.html

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 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.

To get pygamezine issue0, choose your level of support for pygame

Please direct media inquiries to pygame@pygamezine.com. 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!
]]> pygame.org Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:16:00 -0700 Ludumdare and PyWeek finished. http://www.pygame.org/news.html 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 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.]]> pygame.org Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:02:00 -0700 pygame sprint at pyconuk, and virtually. Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th of September http://www.pygame.org/news.html 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.]]> pygame.org Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:24:00 -0700 Pygame issues and version control migrated to bitbucket and mercurial http://www.pygame.org/news.html

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 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.

]]> pygame.org Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:23:00 -0700 Pyweek 13. Sunday the 11th of September to Sunday the 19th of September http://www.pygame.org/news.html

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:

  1. Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team,
  2. Is intended to be challenging and fun,
  3. Will hopefully increase the public body of game tools, code and expertise,
  4. Will let a lot of people actually finish a game, and
  5. May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!)

]]> pygame.org Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:49:00 -0700 pyconuk 24th, 25th of September. http://www.pygame.org/news.html
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'".

"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."

]]> pygame.org Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:54:00 -0700 Ludumdare 48h on this weekend. I'm in. http://www.pygame.org/news.html http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ <~-,. it's all there. ♥]]> pygame.org Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:07:00 -0700 New comments for projects. http://www.pygame.org/news.html There is a new commenting system for projects. It uses the disqus engine, which is a super pro commenting system (written in python too!). Now you can make comments without logging into pygame.org, it handles spam, it does gravitars, aggregates comments from websites like reddit, HN, and others. It also does 'link backs' and other cool made up nonsense. One cool thing is that you can get emails when someone comments on your project. So it helps you discussion of your projects with people. So if you want to get emailed when someone writes about your project... well now you can!

The old commenting system is still there below the disquss ones, so nothing is lost. You can also still post a comment with your pygame.org account if you want. The best thing is now people don't have to log in to post a comment anymore. "Many times in the past I have wanted to make a comment but just didn't put the effort into registering".

Hope you like it!]]> pygame.org Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:57:00 -0700 pygame has a Twitter account @pygame_org http://www.pygame.org/news.html http://twitter.com/pygame_org

If you want to hear tweets from our snakey with the controller stuck in its mouth follow @pygame_org. It might also mention pygame related 'news' by retweeting stuff you people write about pygame. #winning #wedding!]]> pygame.org Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:48:00 -0700 If you are reading this, you are using the new webserver http://www.pygame.org/news.html

Testing. Testing. 1, 2, 3. Echo. Echo.

We've migrated pygame.org to a new webserver. Subversion, and mailing lists are still at the seul servers. I hope everything is working ok.

Welcome.

]]> pygame.org Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:46:00 -0700 April and May Game making jams! Pyweek and Ludumdare 48h. http://www.pygame.org/news.html

Two game development "competitions" popular amongst the participate in are happening in April/May. Ludumdare 48h (from scratch, solo competition using any language) and Pyweek (one week, solo or teams, using python). Both are not about prizes, but are about a creative outlet for heaps of people making games at once around the world.

Ludum Dare 20 - April 29th-May 2nd Weekend



Find out more about Ludum Dare - "Ludum Dare is a regular accelerated game development Event. Participants develop games from scratch in a weekend, based on a theme suggested by community."

Pyweek 12 - April 3rd-April 10th



Find out more about PyWeek - "Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or 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. May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!)"

]]> pygame.org Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:03:00 -0700 Whats new with Pygame http://www.pygame.org/news.html Pygame has passed revision 3000 (**) in SVN! So what has changed. I have spent some time adding array struct interface support to pygame.mixer.Sound and pygame.Surface objects. For those unfamiliar with the array interface, it is a protocol designed by the NumPy people that describes an object's internal data as an array. Unlike the new buffer protocol introduced in Python 3, the array protocol is stable and is supported by NumPy in Python's 2.4 and 2.5. pygame.surfarray.blit_surface has used the array interface for awhile now.

Also added is the new pixelcopy module, which also works on array interfaces, and moves most of the Python code for handling NumPy in surfarray into C. This should provide some of the speedup that has been promised since the release of Pygame 1.9.0. It also adds new functionality, such as pixels_red, pixels_green, and pixels_blue to surfarray. The module is still being developed, but it fully implements existing surfarray functionality.

So if anyone is serious about using NumPy in their projects, please give the latest Pygame from SVN a try. I could use the feedback.

Lenard Lindstrom


(**) bb8 hex, 101110111000 binary, 149A base 13, ... (Okay, so it is meaningless in an of itself.)]]> pygame.org Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:58:00 -0700 SDL development status - it's picking up! http://www.pygame.org/news.html A couple of weeks ago, Sam wrote this to the SDL mailing list regaurding SDL development:
"I just wanted to let people know some exciting news and the current status of SDL development. I recently left Blizzard Entertainment to relax, spend time with family, and explore some ideas to expand the Galaxy Gameworks business. What this means, is that as of today, I am devoted 100% to the SDL 1.3 development, and am working out staffing needs and scheduling."

In the couple of weeks since then, development on SDL 1.3 has picked up a lot. This is good news for pygame, as SDL is the main library pygame uses underneath. There have been lots of new goodies being worked on for SDL 1.3 over the last four or five years.

With this news, the future of pygame looks a lot brighter.]]> pygame.org Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:02:00 -0700